“Fast-paced, strange, perky, and uncanny as the contemporary world, @aurorasdp.bsky.social’s novel creates a knowing magic realist world, rife with the misogyny and surrealism of late-stage capitalism & its corporations.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“Endling’s brilliance lies in Maria Reva’s willingness to yank on the dangling thread of the unanswerable, unraveling the whole fiction genre, only to masterfully stitch it back together again.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“@jobitek.bsky.social writes with mastery of lives forged in war; a testament to the strength of these uncompromising and empowering witnesses, smouldering with life and hard-won possibility.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“Sometimes it feels like modern humans are simple creatures who have found themselves in complex stories that seem strange, ridiculous, and emotional; and yet they are clearly the stories of our own times.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury @robertmcgill.bsky.social writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“With startling imagery, evocative language and a gothic touch, Tim Bowling’s stories shift and unsettle as if they — like their characters — are living, breathing beings searching for understanding and a way to be.” —2025 #AtwoodGibson Prize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“Years after the suicides of both her father and her sister, @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social writes into the silence to create an engrossing maze of associative fragments that grapple with the extraordinary in the everyday.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“In her radical exploration of water, @biidaasamose.bsky.social topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“Combining imagination and narrative, this complex story embodies shadows of absence & love, offering reconstructions of life that provide solace & revelation in the possibility of remembrance & fantasy.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury #VinhNguyen @harpercollins.bsky.social writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“With incredible detail and sharp emotional insight, Tessa McWatt crafts a story that is both intimate and universal, guiding readers through the complexities of memory, belonging, and loss alongside an environment in crisis.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards

“Writing with an elegant blend of emotional clarity and intellectual layering, Omar El Akkad takes a bold stance on the conduits of historical memory and moral posturing.” —2025 Hilary #WestonPrize Jury writerstrust.com/WTAwards