The RBC Emerging Artists Project supports artists of all types across Canada through a variety of charitable partnerships, including the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. The award, which has been given out since 1994 by the Writers' Trust of Canada, has proved to be an accurate and exciting preview of writers who will go on to become household names in both prose and poetry. Past winners include Jeramy Dodds, Alison Pick and Alissa York.
This year, RBC has allocated an additional $25,000 of support for one lucky organisation. The list has been narrowed to six charities, with the Writers' Trust representing the literary realm.
RBC has opened the decision up to the public, creating an online voting system. You can vote online (votes are counted once per IP address) to let RBC know where you think the money ought to go. We at Open Book encourage you to consider voting for the Writers' Trust and supporting Canadian writers. The Writers' Trust is a small charity, founded in 1976 by Margaret Atwood and other great Canadian writers. It operates with minimal overhead and supports authors in Canada at all stages of their careers through awards, grants, scholarships, an emergency fund, a writers' retreat and more.
Click here to vote and let RBC know where you think the $25,000 of additional funding should go!
Votes will be accepted until February 27th, 2015.
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