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HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION

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PRIZE


Winner $75,000
Finalists $5,000

2024 IMPORTANT DATES


Prize shortlist and winner to be announced in Fall 2024

QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT:



Devon Jackson, Senior Program Manager
djackson@writerstrust.com

ABOUT THE PRIZE



The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction is given annually for
excellence in the category of literary nonfiction, which includes essays,
history, biography, memoir, commentary, and criticism. The winning book
demonstrates a distinctive voice as well as a persuasive and compelling command
of tone, narrative, style, and technique. This award has been sponsored by The
Hon. Hilary M. Weston since 2011 and is currently funded by the Hilary and Galen
Weston Foundation. Beginning in 2023, the prize purse has increased from $60,000
to $75,000.



2023 WINNER




CHRISTINA SHARPE


ORDINARY NOTES


KNOPF CANADA


JURY CITATION

With tenderness, bravery, and razor-sharp poetic language, Christina Sharpe
invites the reader to witness the ordinary joys and sorrows of Black lives and
how they are transformed within the everyday reality of systems of racial
supremacy. In doing so, she creates a new narrative space at once intimate,
deeply informed, and uncompromising. Guided by a deep backbone of scholarship,
Ordinary Notes calls upon the reader to witness and wrestle with the notes and
stories that Sharpe, a scholar and poet, so generously shares with us. To read
this book is to turn toward a voice and listen as if our lives depend on it —
and risk being changed in the process.

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2023 FINALISTS


MY ROAD FROM DAMASCUS: A MEMOIR


JAMAL SAEED
TRANSLATED BY
CATHERINE COBHAM

ECW PRESS


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UNBROKEN: MY FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, HOPE, AND JUSTICE FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND
GIRLS


ANGELA STERRITT

GREYSTONE BOOKS


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ORDINARY WONDER TALES: ESSAYS


EMILY URQUHART

BIBLIOASIS


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FIRE WEATHER: THE MAKING OF A BEAST


JOHN VAILLANT

KNOPF CANADA


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JURY

A jury composed of Canadian nonfiction writers Eve Joseph, Michelle Porter, and
Dan Werb  selected this year’s shortlist. In total, 99 titles were submitted by
55 publishing imprints.


EVE JOSEPH


See bio


MICHELLE PORTER


See bio


DAN WERB


See bio

> “Winning the Weston Prize was like having a huge burst of fireworks go off in
> the middle of my life — an explosion of adrenaline and joy.”


– CANDACE SAVAGE


2012 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction winner


ABOUT THE HON. HILARY M. WESTON



The Hon. Hilary M. Weston served as the 26th lieutenant-governor of Ontario from
1997 to 2002. As the Queen’s representative in Ontario, she was responsible for
the Crown’s constitutional and representational roles in the province. Since
leaving public office, Mrs. Weston has continued to pursue her diverse
interests. She led Renaissance ROM, the largest fundraising campaign in Canadian
cultural history, transforming the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. She is a
recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, served on the board of
the Aga Khan Museum for eight years, is a Trustee Emeritus of the Art Gallery of
Ontario, and is Founding Patron and Chair Emeritus of Prince’s Trust Canada.   

   



Mrs. Weston is a director of Wittington Investments, the Weston family holding
company. She is also a member of the Sotheby’s International Council and has
served as deputy chair of the board of Holt Renfrew, promoting Canadian
designers in the retail business.  

   



Mrs. Weston founded the Ireland Fund of Canada and remains a patron of this
non-denominational organization promoting peace in Ireland. Her interests in
homes and gardens resulted in the publication of In a Canadian Garden (1989) and
At Home in Canada (1995). She served as first Chancellor of the Order of Ontario
and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003. Mrs. Weston received
the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal
in 2012. She was invested by the Queen as a Commander in the Royal Victorian
Order in October 2015 and is the recipient of several honorary degrees.   

SPONSOR

The Hilary & Galen Weston Foundation


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 * Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
 * Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
 * Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
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 * Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
 * Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
 * RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
 * Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
 * Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
 * Weston International Award
 * Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
 * Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize

 * Programs
 * WT Amplified Voices
 * Berton House Writers' Residency
 * DC Reid Poets’ Grant
 * Writers' Trust Rising Stars
 * Woodcock Fund Grant
 * Writers’ Trust Mentorship

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 * Politics and the Pen
 * Writers' Trust Storytellers Ball
 * Writers’ Trust Awards
 * Margaret Laurence Lecture Series

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 * Program History
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