The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced that former chief justice Beverley McLachlin won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her memoir Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, published by Simon & Schuster Canada. The announcement was made during the annual Politics and the Pen gala on Sept. 23. “McLachlin is an exceptional woman, and her memoirs are … Read more
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced that John Ibbitson has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Stephen Harper. The announcement was made at the annual Politics and the Pen Gala in Ottawa. The jury’s citation reads: “The many ways in which Canada changed during Stephen Harper’s nearly 10 years in … Read more
The Writers’ Trust of Canada has named the five finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced in Ottawa on March 11, 2015, at the Politics and the Pen Gala. Each finalist will receive $2,500. The finalists, selected by a jury comprising author Denise Chong, author and Ottawa Citizen columnist Terry Glavin and The Globe and … Read more
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced at the Politics and the Pen gala that journalist Paul Wells has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 — , published by Random House Canada. The $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is sponsored by Bell … Read more
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced at the Politics and the Pen Gala that Marcello Di Cintio has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, published by Goose Lane Editions. The $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is sponsored by Bell Media and supported by Politics and the Pen. More … Read more
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced at the Politics and the Pen Gala that Richard Gwyn has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891, published by Random House Canada. The $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is sponsored by Bell Media and … Read more
