© Rachel Eliza Griffiths
On May 1, 2025, poet and writer Canisia Lubrin won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for CODE NOIR (Knopf Canada). The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is the first major English-language literary prize to celebrate creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in Canada and the United States, awarding $150,000 USD to its winner, and $12,500 USD to each of its four finalists.