The RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer under 35 who has not yet published his or her first book.
The award is named in memory of Bronwen Wallace, a Canadian writer who died of cancer in 1989.
The prize has a monetary value of $5,000, with finalists receiving $1,000. The prize alternates every other year between poetry and short fiction.
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