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The Writers’ Trust of Canada or La Société d’encouragement aux écrivains du Canada is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.Founded by Margaret Atwood Pierre Berton Graeme Gibson Margaret Laurence and David Young and registered as a charitable organization on March 3 1976 the Writers’ Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada’s novelists short story writers poets biographers and other fiction and nonfiction writers.The organization funds and administers a number of Canadian literary awards including the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction the richest award for nonfiction in Canada.As well the organization funds scholarships for the Humber College School for Writers Correspondence Program; an annual Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture given by a noted Canadian writer; four annual writers’ residencies at Berton House in Dawson City Yukon; and the Woodcock Fund which provides emergency financial assistance to Canadian writers named in memory of the Canadian poet George Woodcock.
