Writers' Trust of Canada
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The Writers' Trust of Canada is a non-profit organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.
Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young and Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was registered as a non-profit organization in 1976. Through its various initiatives, the Writers' Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada's novelists, short story writers, poets, biographers, and other non-fiction writers.
The organization funds and administers a number of Canadian literary awards:
- Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
- Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize
- Journey Prize
- Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Marian Engel Award
- Matt Cohen Prize
- Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing
- Thomas Head Raddall Award
- Timothy Findley Award
- W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
As well, the organization funds scholarships to Humber College's School for Writers, an annual Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture given by a noted Canadian writer, and the Woodcock Fund, a fund providing emergency financial assistance to Canadian writers, named in memory of the Canadian poet George Woodcock.
