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Writers' Trust of Canada Awards 2022

The 2022 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards went to Some Hellish by Nicholas Herring (Fiction), The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werb (Nonfiction) and China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu (Political Writing), with winners in 1 more category. 20 books were finalists across 4 categories.

Winners

Fiction

  1. Some Hellish by Nicholas Herringsource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werbsource (opens in a new tab)

Political Writing

  1. China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiusource (opens in a new tab)

Public Policy

  1. Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias by John Lorincsource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Fiction

  1. Ezra’s Ghosts by Darcy Tamayosesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebisource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Manam by Rima Elkourisource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Querelle of Roberval by Kevin Lambertsource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whiteheadsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir by Tara McGowan-Rosssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembickisource (opens in a new tab)

Political Writing

  1. Flora!: A Woman in a Man's World by Flora MacDonald and Geoffrey Stevenssource (opens in a new tab)
  2. The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future by Stephen Polozsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US-China Cyber War by Mike Blanchfield and Fen Osler Hampsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. “Indian” in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power by Jody Wilson-Raybouldsource (opens in a new tab)

Public Policy

  1. Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change by Kent Roachsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Vaclav Smilsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada by Kim Stantonsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying by Jean Marmoreo and Johanna Schnellersource (opens in a new tab)

About the Writers' Trust of Canada Awards

Winners and finalists of four Writers' Trust of Canada book prizes, from the official prize history pages at writerstrust.com/writers-books/awards. No fallback sources were needed. The Writers' Trust does not publish longlists for these prizes, so there are no Longlist rows. Fiction is the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, renamed the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2019. Nonfiction is the Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize, named the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction from 2011. Public Policy is the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy, first awarded in 2021. Political Writing is the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Year is the year the history pages give each prize. For Fiction, Nonfiction and Public Policy that is the award year. For Political Writing the pages give the book's year through 2019 (the prize was handed out the next spring) and the award year from 2021, so 2020 has no Political Writing entry. The pages list four books for Nonfiction 2007 and Public Policy 2021, 2024 and 2025. The Dayne Ogilvie Prize, the Latner Griffin Poetry Prize, the Nancy Flight editing prize and other career or person awards are left out. Translators are credited when the page credits them. Books that won one prize and were finalists for another appear in each category.

Organization: Writers' Trust of Canada. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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