The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Rogers Communications Inc.
Winner: $15,000; Finalists: $2,000
Established in 1997, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year's best novel or short-story collection.
2010 | 2009 |2008 | Winners 1997- 2007
ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE ($25,000)
Sponsored by Rogers Communications Inc.
The jury of Lisa Moore, Andrew Pyper, and Eden Robinson read 143 titles submitted by 46 publishers. Each finalist for this prize receives $2,500.
Winner: Emma Donoghue for Room, HarperCollins Publishers
Trevor Cole for Practical Jean, McClelland & Stewart
Michael Helm for Cities of Refuge, McClelland & Stewart
Kathleen Winter for Annabel, House of Anansi Press
Michael Winter for The Death of Donna Whalen, Hamish Hamilton Canada
WRITERS' TRUST NON-FICTION PRIZE ($25,000)
The jury of Hadani Ditmars, Sid Marty, and Michael Mitchell read 84 titles submitted by 44 publishers. Each finalist for this prize receives $2,500.
James FitzGerald for What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past, Random House Canada
Ross King for Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, Douglas & McIntyre/McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Sarah Leavitt for Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me, Freehand Books
John Theberge and Mary Theberge for The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself, McClelland &
Stewart Merrily Weisbord for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, McGill-Queen's University Press
WRITERS' TRUST OF CANADA/McCLELLAND & STEWART JOURNEY PRIZE ($10,000)
Made possible by James A. Michener's donation of his Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.
The Journey Prize recognizes the best short story or excerpt from a novel-in-progress by a new and developing writer that had its first publication in a Canadian literary journal in the previous year. The jury of Pasha Malla, Joan Thomas, and Alissa York read 74 stories submitted by 31 literary magazines.
The journal that published the winning entry receives $2,000. McClelland & Stewart published a selection of this year's entries in The Journey Prize Stories 22.Go
Devon Code for "Uncle Oscar," The Malahat Review
Krista Foss for "The Longitude of Okay," Grain Magazine
Lynne Kutsukake for "Mating," The Dalhousie Review
2009 Winner & Finalists Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (translator) Fences in Breathing, Coach House Books
Douglas Coupland, Generation A, Random House Canada
Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean, Random House Canada - Winner
Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness, McClelland & Stewart: A Douglas Gibson Book
Andrew Steinmetz, Eva’s Threepenny Theatre, Gaspereau PressNicole Brossard Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (translator), Fences in Breathing,
Coach House Books
2008 Winner The $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
MiriamToews (Winnipeg) for The Flying Troutmans, published by Knopf Canada published by Knopf Canada
“Toews's book is a love song to young people trying to navigate the volcanic world of adult emotions.”
2008 Shortlist
Jury: Lawrence Hill (Burlington, Ontario), Annabel Lyon (Vancouver), and Heather O’Neill (Montreal)
Each finalist for this prize receives $3,500.
Winner - Miriam Toews (Winnipeg) for The Flying Troutmans, published by Knopf Canada
• Rivka Galchen (New York City) for Atmospheric Disturbances, published by Harper Collins Canada
• Rawi Hage (Montreal) for Cockroach, published by House of Anansi Press
• Lee Henderson (Vancouver) for The Man Game, published by Viking Canada
• Patrick Lane (North Saanich, British Columbia) for Red Dog, Red Dog, published by
McClelland & Stewart
2007 Lawrence Hill for The Book of Negroes
2006 Kenneth J. Harvey for Inside
2005 Joseph Boyden for Three Day Road
2004 Alice Munro for Runaway
2003 Kevin Patterson for Country of Cold
2002 Paulette Jiles for Enemy Women
2001 Margaret Sweatman for When Alice Lay Down With Peter
2000 Helen Humphreys for Afterimage
1999 Peter Oliva for The City of Yes
1998 Greg Hollingshead for The Healer
1997 Austin Clarke for The Origins of Waves
