Greg Rhyno

OTTAWA, ON – April 25, 2025 – Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) is pleased to announce the Shortlists for the 2025 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing. Since 1984, Crime Writers of Canada has recognized the best in mystery, crime, suspense fiction, and crime nonfiction by Canadian authors, including citizens abroad and new residents. On behalf of CWC, Hyacinthe Miller, Awards Committee Chair, extends congratulations to all the talented finalists.

Twenty Canadian authors have withdraw their books and labor from the Scotiabank Giller Prize until it severs its ties to companies “complicit in Israel’s ongoing occupation, displacement and murder of Palestinians.” In a letter to the Giller foundation published earlier today, fifteen authors pulling their 2024 fiction releases from contention for the prize, and five authors who have prior relationships to it, wrote that they “cannot abide [their] work being used to provide cover for sponsors...

To the Executive Director, Board and Advisory Council of the Giller Foundation: We, the undersigned, have made the decision to withdraw our books from consideration for the 2024 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and to refuse participation in all programming or promotions associated with the Giller Foundation. As authors, we cannot abide our work being used to provide cover for sponsors actively investing in arms funding and Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.