Yasuko Thanh, Bill Gaston and Robyn Doolittle to judge 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Yasuko Thanh, Bill Gaston and Robyn Doolittle will judge the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize.

The CBC Nonfiction Prize recognizes original, unpublished works of nonfiction.The winning author will receive $6,000 from theCanada Council for the Arts, attend a two-weekwriting residency at theBanff Centre for Arts and Creativityand have their work published onCBC Books.

Four finalists will win $1,000 from theCanada Council for the Artsand have their work published onCBC Books.

The deadline to submit is Feb. 29, 2020.The finalists will be announced in the fall. If you're interested, you can enter here.

Thanh is the author ofMistakes to Run With, a memoir about how she went from living on the street to becoming an award-winning writer.She is also the author of the historical novel Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains, which won the 2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.

• Yasuko Thanh went from living on the street to becoming an award-winning writer

Gaston is a fiction writer and memoirist. Hehas won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, a National Magazine Award, a ReLit Award andbeen shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and Giller Prize. In 2003, he received the Timothy FindleyAward, which recognizes a mid-career author for their entire body of work. His latest book, the memoir Just Let Me Look at Youwas shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize.He won the CBC Short Story Prize in 1998.

• Bill Gaston wrote a memoir about his tumultuous relationship with his father

Doolittleis a Globe and Mail investigative journalist. Her reporting on Mayor Rob Ford for the Toronto Starwon the Michener Award for public service journalism. Her bestselling book on the topic, Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story, won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her Unfounded seriesinvestigated how police services handle sexual assault cases.In 2017, she was named journalist of the year by the National Newspaper Awards. Her latest book,Had It Coming, looks at how attitudes around sexual harassment and assault are changing in the #MeToo era.Had It Coming is currently on the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize shortlist.

• Robyn Doolittle: It will take 'rewiring all of us' to change myths about sexual assault victims

The 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize winner was Jenny Boychuk for Slow Violence.

TheCBCLiterary Prizeshave been supporting and celebrating Canadian writers since 1979.

Other pastCBC Literary Prizewinners includeMichael Winter,Frances Itani,Carol ShieldsandMichael Ondaatje.