The award is the world's largest English-language literary prize for women and non-binary authors Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at ...

The award honors books written by women and non-binary authors in the U.S. and Canada Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms.

Writer Canisia Lubrin, known for her poetry, has won this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which honors women and nonbinary storytellers in the U.S. and Canada. Lubrin's debut fiction work, ...

Carol Shields, 68, whose empathetic and witty novels about the lives of ordinary people included the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Stone Diaries," died July 16 at her home in Victoria, B.C. She had ...

The winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been revealed. PEOPLE can exclusively report that Canisia Lubrin was named the winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction at a live ...

The award honors books written by women and non-binary authors in the U.S. and Canada The shortlist for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is here. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the shortlist ...