White Trucks and Mergansers,

 Dwight Morgan riding his non-fiction book to success





Yesterday the Writers' Trust announced several shortlists for a number different categories including the shortlist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, along with several other awards in various categories.
This year marks the introduction of a new category the Writer’s Trust in the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award: Creative Nonfiction by Emerging Writers. The award recognizes Canada’s top emerging talent—writers who have not yet published a book—and has often served as a springboard to securing agents and book deals.
Dwight Morgan is one of three writers nominated in the creative nonfiction category. He is a first-generation Canadian journalist, writer, and editor of Jamaican heritage. His work has appeared on CBC News, and in Maclean’s and The Walrus. An outdoor enthusiast, Morgan cycled 7,708 kilometres from Vancouver to St. John’s in 2012. He is currently working on his first book, a collection of essays exploring Blackness, nature, and memory. He lives in Toronto.
His nominated work, White Trucks and Mergansers, is a poignant, lyrical collection that captures the quiet beauty of rural life and nature’s fleeting moments. With vivid imagery and emotional depth, the book explores memory, migration, and belonging through the interwoven lenses of landscape and personal reflection.
The other two writers nominated in the category are:
• Huyền Trân, for Where Do Mothers Go
• Graham Slaughter, for Breach
The winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award will be announced on June 2 in Toronto.

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