CP NewsAlert: Sheung-King wins Writers’ Trust fiction prize for ‘Batshit Seven’

By Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press on November 19, 2024.

The Writersâ€™ Trust of Canada is set to hand out seven awards and more than $330,000 in prize money at its annual awards bash tonight. Poet-novelist Canisia Lubrin is photographed in Whitby, Ont. on Tuesday June 15, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

TORONTO – Richmond, B.C. author Sheung-King has won the $60,000 Writers’ Trust fiction prize for “Batshit Seven,” about a detached millennial living through the Hong Kong protests.

Another big winner is Toronto writer Martha Baillie, who takes home the $75,000 non-fiction prize for her family memoir “There Is No Blue.”