Giller Prize brings three new voices into Canada’s literary community
Sofia Cina, Sarah-Marie Scale and Audrey Gignac will receive Mantella scholarships in Toronto for literary and writing studies.
Three Canadian students will enter the Giller Prize ceremony not simply as audience members but as emerging voices to be supported. Sofia Cina, Sarah-Marie Scale and Audrey Gignac are the 2026 Giller Mantella Scholarship recipients and will each receive C$10,000 towards studies in English literature, creative writing and professional writing. They will be recognised in Toronto on 16 November, during the ceremony that will also announce the winner of the C$100,000 fiction prize. Created by Mantella Corporation and the Giller Foundation, the scholarship supports Black, Indigenous and racialised students. The initiative shifts attention from the finished book to the stage before it: the moment when education, time and access can determine who is genuinely able to become a writer.