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Brendan Bowles reads his Writers' Trust-winning short story, Wyatt Thurst

Wyatt Thurst is the winner of this year's RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, which is presented through the Writers' Trust of Canada.
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The author reads his award-winning story for As it Happens. (Bronwen Wallace Writers' Trust)
As It Happens11:53Brendan Bowles reads his Writers' Trust-winning short story, "Wyatt Thurst"

The judges described Brendan Bowles' short story as "so lovingly polished it glows."

Related: Brendan Bowles wins the 2016 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

For a young writer, the praise doesn't get much better than that.

Author Brendan Bowles won a Writers' Trust award for his short story. (Brendan Bowles/Twitter)

Bowles is this year's winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, which is awarded to unpublished writers under the age of 35. In alternating years, the prize is awarded for poetry or for short fiction. 
    
This year, the $5,000 prize was awarded for exceptional short stories.
   
Listen to Brendan Bowles read his award-winning entry, Wyatt Thurst.

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