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That includes $70,000 to the winner of the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and $75,000 to the recipient of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

This year's fiction finalists include the short story collections "Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand" by Tim Bowling and "Simple Creatures" by Robert McGill.

The novels in contention for the fiction prize are "We, the Kindling" by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, "Endling" by Maria Reva and "Julius Julius" by Aurora Stewart de Peña.

The non-fiction finalists are Miriam Toews for "A Truce That Is Not Peace," Omar El Akkad for "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This," Tessa McWatt for "The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief;" Vinh Nguyen for The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse," and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for “Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead." 

The livestreamed ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m.

 This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Nov. 13, 2025.