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Six women emerging writers have been chosen to receive this year's Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards. The prize is worth $10,000 (U.S.) for each of the winners.

"The awards were created to provide encouragement to these women writers when they need it most -- right as they are starting out," Jaffe, author of the children's story The Last of the Wizards and many other books, said in a recent statement.

The winners, who will be honoured at a ceremony tomorrow, include poets Kathleen Graber and Joanna Klink, fiction writers Allison McKittrick, Katharine Noel, Olette Trouve and fiction/non-fiction writer Julia Whitty. AP

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