🎆 It's our pleasure to announce the winner of our 2025 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction is Ruth Taylor!!!🎆⁠🏆️📚️⁠ ⁠ A HUGE congratulations to Ruth. 👏⁠Her award-winning manuscript "Even the Birds," will be published in the fall of 2026. Stay tuned!⁠ ⁠ All About Ruth⁠ ⁠ Ruth Taylor worked as a journalist in Guatemala for close to a decade before returning to Canada and taking up fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Dalhousie Review and Potomac Review, among other journals. In 2024, she won the Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for fiction. EVEN THE BIRDS is her first novel.⁠ ⁠ Congratulations to our fabulous shortlist and to all the talented authors who submitted their manuscripts. 👏⁠ ⁠ A BIG thank you to our dedicated judge, award-winning author Leslie Shimotakahara.🙏⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #GuernicaPrize #literaryfiction #literaryfictionaward #GuernicaPrize2025