News & Events
Press Release
Feb. 17 2022
The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased to announce that Toronto bookseller, community builder, and event coordinator Anjula Gogia is the recipient of the 2022 Freedom to Read Award. The award is presented annually by TWUC in recognition of work that is passionately... Read More
Call for Applications
Feb. 14 2022
The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC) is seeking an Editor for its quarterly member-magazine Write. The position is open to members of TWUC (with the exception of those members on National Council and/or the Write Editorial board) as well as non-members.
This is a part-time contract position... Read More
Jan. 4 2022
It is with great sadness we inform you of the passing of Richard King, Montreal author, broadcaster, bookseller, and TWUC’s current Treasurer.
Richard provided brilliant financial and strategic leadership to the Union over the last two challenging years, recommending and authorizing the emergency... Read More
Contest
Dec. 3 2021
The Writers' Union of Canada invites submissions to its 29th annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers. Unpublished works of fiction and nonfiction up to 2,500 words in English are eligible, and writers may submit multiple entries. A $2,500 prize will be awarded to the... Read More
Press Release
Nov. 25 2021
The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) is pleased at the news that journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano have been released from custody in British Columbia. TWUC joins with other organizations in expressing grave concern over their initial arrests and the ongoing contempt charges filed... Read More
Press Release
Nov. 1 2021
The Writers’ Union of Canada and the Gleed family are pleased to announce the jury for the $10,000 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, Canada’s pre-eminent award for the best first Canadian collection of short fiction in the English language, now celebrating its 25th year.
This year’s jury comprises... Read More
Press Release
Aug. 4 2021
Supreme Court Declines to Meaningfully Decide Key Educational Copying Case
After a decade of market failure for Canadian writers, and a Federal Court decision featuring overwhelming evidence of illicit copying, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has declined to uphold creator... Read More
Jul. 1 2021
The horrific legacy of abuse and death in Canada’s Residential School (IRS) system has been thoroughly documented, and was the focus of 2015’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report. That report details cemeteries and graveyards attached to residential schools, and provides the impetus for... Read More
Press Release
May. 27 2021
The Writers’ Union of Canada announced today that Jack Wang is the recipient of the $10,000 first prize in the 24th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award, recognizing the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2020 in the English language.
Of Jack... Read More
Press Release
May. 27 2021
The Writers' Union of Canada is pleased to announce that Mirabelle Chiderah Harris-Eze has won the $2,500 prize for its 28th annual Short Prose Competition for Emerging Writers, for the best story under 2,500 words, with her piece dark. In addition, the Union will... Read More
