CP NewsAlert: Kai Thomas wins Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

By The Canadian Press on November 21, 2023.

Kai Thomas has won the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his debut novel, "In the Upper Country," about two Black women at the northern end of the Underground Railroad. Thomas is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Writers' Trust, Brooke Bridges, *MANDATORY CREDIT*

TORONTO – Kai Thomas has won the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his debut novel, “In the Upper Country,” about two Black women at the northern end of the Underground Railroad.

Christina Sharpe won the $75,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for “Ordinary Notes” about the complexities of Black life.

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