RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer who has not yet published his or her first book.[1] Formerly restricted to writers under age 35, the age limit was removed in 2021, with the prize now open to emerging writers regardless of age.[2]

Named in memory of Bronwen Wallace, a Canadian writer who died of cancer in 1989, the award was created in 1994 by her literary executor Carolyn Smart to honour Wallace's work as a creative writing instructor and mentor to young writers.[3] The Royal Bank of Canada stepped in as the award's corporate sponsor in 2012, through its Emerging Artists Project.

The prize has a monetary value of $10,000, with finalists receiving $2,500. The prize traditionally alternates every other year between poetry and short fiction; in 2020 the Writers' Trust announced that they would present awards in both categories.[4]

Winners

References
  1. "The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers". Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  2. "National literary award removes 'glaringly inequitable' emerging writer age cap". CBC News Windsor, January 27, 2021.
  3. "Laura Clarke wins RBC Bronwen Wallace Award". Toronto Star, May 28, 2013.
  4. "RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers doubles, will give two $10,000 prizes in 2020". CBC Books, January 7, 2020.
  5. "Jen Neale wins RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers" Archived 2013-06-29 at Archive.today. National Post, May 3, 2012.
  6. "Erin Frances Fisher wins RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers". CBC Books, May 28, 2014.
  7. "Noor Naga wins 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire. May 31, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  8. "Maria Reva wins $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers". CBC Books, May 31, 2018.
  9. Erin Balser, "John Elizabeth Stintzi wins $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers". CBC Books, May 29, 2019.
  10. "4 emerging Canadian writers receive $10K prizes from Writers' Trust of Canada". CBC Books, October 21, 2020.
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