Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize

The Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize is awarded annually for the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. For more information, visit the official site.
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2010
- James FitzGerald – What Disturbs Our Blood
Also shortlisted:
- Ross King – Defiant Spirits
- Sarah Leavitt – Tangles
- John Theberge, Mary Theberge – The Ptarmigan's Dilemma
- Merrily Weisbord – The Love Queen of Malabar
2009
- Brian Brett – Trauma Farm
Also shortlisted:
- Wade Davis – The Wayfinders
- Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song
- Erika Ritter – The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath
- Eric Siblin – The Cello Suites
2008
- Taras Grescoe – Bottomfeeder
Also shortlisted:
- Carl Honoré – Under Pressure
- Mark Kingwell – Concrete Reveries
- Margaret Visser – The Gift of Thanks
- Russell Wangersky – Burning Down the House
2007
- Anna Porter – Kasztner's Train
Also shortlisted:
- Katherine Ashenburg – The Dirt on Clean
- Tim Bowling – The Lost Coast
- Barry Gough – Fortune's a River
- Douglas Hunter – God's Mercies
2006
- Dragan Todorovic – The Book of Revenge
Also shortlisted:
- Charlotte Gray – Reluctant Genius
- Barbara Kingscote – Ride the Rising Wind
- Noah Richler – This is My Country, What's Yours?
- Rudy Wiebe – Of This Earth
2005
- John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce
Also shortlisted:
- Rebecca Godfrey – Under the Bridge
- Stephen Lewis – Race Against Time
- J.B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
2004
- Elaine Dewar – The Second Tree
Also shortlisted:
- Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall – Down to This
- Trevor Herriot – Jacob's Wound
- Patrick Lane – There is a Season
- Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen
2003
- Brian Fawcett – Virtual Clearcut
Also shortlisted:
- Mark Abley – Spoken Here
- J. Edward Chamberlin – If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
- Taras Grescoe – The End of Elsewhere
- Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle – Sahara
2002
- Jake MacDonald – Houseboat Chronicles
Also shortlisted:
- Katherine Ashenburg – The Mourner's Dance
- Andrew Clark – A Keen Soldier
- Marni Jackson – Pain
- Lorie Miseck – A Promise of Salt
2001
- Clark Blaise – Time Lord
Also shortlisted:
- Kevin Major – As Near to Heaven by Sea
- Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
- Carol Shields – Jane Austen
- Jack Todd – The Taste of Metal
2000
- Erna Paris – Long Shadows
Also shortlisted:
- Donald Harman Akenson – Saint Saul
- Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
- Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues
- John Stackhouse – Out of Poverty
1999
- Modris Eksteins – Walking Since Daybreak
Also shortlisted:
- Robert Bringhurst – A Story as Sharp as a Knife
- Jacalyn Duffin – History of Medicine
- Moira Farr – After Daniel
- Wayne Johnston – Baltimore's Mansion
1998
- Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson – Stolen Life
Also shortlisted:
- Michael Ignatieff – Isaiah Berlin
- David Manicom – Progeny of Ghosts
- Linda Spalding – The Follow
- Charles Wilkins – The Circus at the Edge of the Earth
1997
- Ernest Hillen – Small Mercies
Also shortlisted:
- Charlotte Gray – Mrs. King
- John Bentley Mays – Power in the Blood
- Ruth Teichroeb – Flowers on My Grave
- Eileen Whitfield – Pickford