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Finalists Announced for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Written by The Ontarion on September 17, 2019

Awarding the top Canadian nonfiction of the year

Each year, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction is awarded in recognition of excellence in literary nonfiction, which includes essays, history, biography, memoir, commentary, and criticism. Each finalist will receive $5,000. The winner will be announced on November 5, 2019.

Here are the 2019 Finalists:

**A Mind Spread Out on the Ground**
by Alicia Elliott
(Doubleday Canada)

**All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward**
by Tanya Talaga
House of Anansi Press)

**The Art of Leaving: A Memoir**
by Ayelet Tsabari
(HarperCollins Canada)

**Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir**
by Jenny Heijun Wills
(McClelland & Stewart)

**Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person**
by Anna Mehler Paperny
(Random House Canada)

The 2019 jurors are Ivan Coyote, Trevor Herriot, and Manjushree Thapa.

The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction has been sponsored by The Hon. Hilary M. Weston since 2011.

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Awarding the top Canadian nonfiction of the year

Here are the 2019 Finalists:

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