Prize Watch: the Weston

The Writers's Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction 2022 shortlist is an intriguing mix of memoir/essay and public policy this year. Historians pretty much shut out.

• The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki  (Greystone Books)
• Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir by Tara McGowan-Ross (Dundurn Press)
• The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thompson (Scribner Canada)
• The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werb (Crown)
• Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead (Knopf Canada)