Kai Thomas has won the $60,000 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his debut novel, “In the Upper Country,” about two Black women at the northern end of the Underground Railroad.

Among the winners were Christina Sharpe, who earned the $75,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Ordinary Notes, and Kai Thomas, who took home the $60,000 Atwood Gibson ...

The 2023 Writers' Trust Award winners, from left to right: Kai Thomas, Anuja Varghese, Laisha Rosnau, Canisia Lubrin (representing Christina Sharpe), Kyo Maclear, Helen Humphreys and Anosh Irani.

Debut novelist Kai Thomas, debut short story writer Anuja Varghese, and acclaimed writer and professor Christina Sharpe are among the winners of the 2023 Writers’ Trust Awards. The winners of the ...