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
• Pearson 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.

External links

• Writers' Trust of Canada (http://www.writerstrust.com/)