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Politics and the Pen makes a splash

Author Maggie Helwig, who wrote Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and An Unhoused Community, won the $40,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for the Best Political Book of the Year.
The crowd at the Politics and the Pen gala, held at the Château Laurier Hotel in Ottawa on April 29.

It’s one of the hottest tickets in town. The annual fundraiser for the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the night for the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for the Best Political Book of the Year on April 29, attracted a high-powered crowd of more than 500 people to Ottawa's Château Lau...

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