An Autumnal Blowout Of Book Prizes

Canada’s Writers’ Trust literary award is switching its annual announcement date from spring to fall, to better place it among the country’s more prestigious lit prizes. “Despite the risk of competing for the same precious literary oxygen already shared by the Giller and the GGs, as the Governor General’s Awards are known in the book industry… [the switch] amplifies the existing perception of the fall as the make-or-break season in the publishing year.”