Politicians and writers gathered at the Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa last week for the black-tie Politics and the Pen gala, a fundraiser for The Writers’ Trust of Canada. Maclean‘s journalist Paul Wells was awarded the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Longer I’m Prime Minister (Random House Canada).

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<i>Toronto Star</i> journalist Robyn Doolittle and author John Boyko

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Ottawa lobbyist Hugh Scott with Writers' Trust chair Jennifer Lambert

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Writer Michael Harris with Green Party leader Elizabeth May

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Paul Wells accepts the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

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Laureen Harper and Ailish Campbell with Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner Paul Wells

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Writers' Trust program manager Amanda Hopkins, board member Kari Cullen, executive director Mary Osborne, publicist Becky Toyne, and program assistant Katrina Afonso

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Hon. Tony Clement with authors Terry Fallis and Iain Reid

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Authors Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds

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Shaughnessy Cohen Prize nominee Charles Montgomery and juror Jane O'Hara

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Writers' Trust board member (and <i>Q&Q</i> cover author) Adam Sol with author Elizabeth Ruth and Association of Canadian Publishers' program manager Kate Edwards

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