Writers' Trust Rising Stars
From Writers' Trust of Canada
Five established authors each pick and mentor one early-career writer; each pick gets $5,000 and career events.
- Amount
- Up to $5,000
- Who can apply
- Individual artists
- Where you must live
- Canada
- Art forms
- Writing
- Application fee
- Not found
- Kind
- Fellowship
- How to get it
- Open application “A two-week residency at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts accompanies the $5,000 prize; the guidelines page (returned HTTP 429 on every attempt, including a fresh retry 2026-09-28) appears to describe each established-author mentor choos…”
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Eligibility
Canadian citizen or permanent resident; in the developing stages of their career (no age restriction); writing in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or children's literature in any language, including multi-medium or experimental literary work; at least one publishing credit in a magazine, newspaper, periodical or anthology and at most two books published with a traditional publisher.
What to send
A two-week residency at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts accompanies the $5,000 prize; the guidelines page (returned HTTP 429 on every attempt, including a fresh retry 2026-09-28) appears to describe each established-author mentor choosing their own pick rather than a public open call, but the exact submission/nomination mechanics could not be confirmed from the funder's own page.
Not yet checked against the funder's page.
Key details not found yet: application fee.
Source: https://www.writerstrust.com/programs/rising-stars/guidelines (opens in a new tab). Our research read it on September 30, 2026.
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