Canada's book awards season heats up tonight with the announcement of the Writers' Trust of Canada winners.

Six literary awards will be handed out at a ceremony in Toronto, including the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Finalists for the fiction prize include Toronto-based Miriam Toews, who won the award for 2008's The Flying Troutmans.

The other fiction finalists are Carrie Snyder, Andre Alexis, Steven Galloway and K.D. Miller.

The Writers' Trust is the first of three major literary awards to be handed out this year.

The others are the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which will be handed out next week, and the Governor General's Literary Awards, set for Nov. 18.