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Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young and Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was registered as a non-profit organization in 1976. Through its various initiatives, the Writers' Trust celebrates and rewards the talents and achievements of Canada's novelists, short story writers, poets, biographers, and other non-fiction writers.
The organization funds and administers a number of Canadian literary awards:
As well, the organization funds scholarships to Humber College's School for Writers, an annual Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture given by a noted Canadian writer, and the Woodcock Fund, a fund providing emergency financial assistance to Canadian writers, named in memory of the Canadian poet George WoodcockGeorge Woodcock ( May 8, 1912 January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer. He was very prolific, producing poetry, essays, criticism, biographies and historical works. He is probably best known today in Canada for founding the journal Canadian Literature in 1.