Wordfest 2014 writers nominated for fiction and non-fiction prizes

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize

The prestigious Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is the richest prize for Canadian nonfiction. The five nominees for this year's award were announced on September 17, 2014, and the winner will be announced at October 14th—which happens to coincide with the launch of the 19th annual Wordfest, October 14-19!

Among the nominees are Wordfest 2014 writers Kathleen Winter for Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage, and Naomi Klein for This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate.

K-Winter-50 Kathleen Winter's Boundless: Chasing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage is the author’s memoir detailing the journey she took along the Northwest Passage.

N-Klein-50 Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything argues that climate change is not just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care; it is an economic system that is already failing us in many ways.

Related Events:

Circling the North – Thursday, October 16
Writing Roundtable with Kathleen Winter – Friday, October 17
One-on-One with Kathleen Winter – Saturday, October 18
Books and Afternoon Tea – Sunday, October 19
Wordfest Presents Naomi Klein – Tuesday, October 21

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

The prestigious Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize is awarded to an author for a work of outstanding fiction every year. The five nominees for the year's award were announced on October 2, 2014, and the winner will be announced at a gala event on November 4 in Toronto. Among the nominees are Wordfest 2014 writers Carrie Snyder for Girl Runner and Miriam Toews for All My Puny Sorrows.

C-Snyder-50 Carrie Snyder's Girl Runner is the story of Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete who was famous in the 1920s, but now, at age 104, lives in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history. For Aganetha, a competitive and ambitious woman, her life remains present and unfinished in her mind.

M-Toews-50 Miriam Toews is the winner of the Governor General’s Award for fiction, Canada Reads 2006, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers’ Trust Marian Engel/Timothy Findley Award. At Wordfest, Toews presents her much-anticipated novel, All My Puny Sorrows, the riveting story of two sisters and a love that illuminates life.