Shortlist includes Books on the Syrian civil war, Blackness, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, motherhood and a colossal wildfire
, is an account of the wildfire that overran Alberta’s Fort McMurray in 2016.
A jury composed of Canadian non-fiction writers Eve Joseph, Michelle Porter and last year’s winner Dan Werb arrived at the shortlist after considering 99 titles submitted by 55 publishing imprints. Each finalist receives $5,000; the winner receives an additional $70,000. are, in the opinion of the jury, the year’s best works of Canadian non-fiction and demonstrate a distinctive voice as well as a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style and technique.
Other recent winners include Tomson Highway, Jessica J. Lee, Jenny Heijun Wills, Elizabeth Hay, James Maskalyk, Deborah Campbell, Rosemary Sullivan and Naomi Klein. The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize has a sister $75,000 award, the Weston International Award for career achievement in non-fiction, which is new this year. Both prizes are presented by the Writers’ Trust of Canada and supported by the Toronto-based Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation.
British author Robert Macfarlane, winner of the inaugural Weston International Award earlier this summer, spoke at an event in his honour at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Monday.
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