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Posted AT 2:43 AM EDT on 24/07/08

Writers' Trust increases value of prizes

Canadian Press

Toronto — The Writers' Trust Awards just got richer. The awards are already among the richest fiction and non-fiction prizes in Canada, with past winners including Alice Munro, Rudy Wiebe and Austin Clarke. The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize will now award each winner $25,000 and finalists $3,500 (up from $15,000 and $2,000).

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