Michael Harris, Donna Bailey Nurse and Joel Yanofsky are the 2018 judges for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, one of the country's biggest nonfiction prizes.

The annual $60,000 award celebrates the best in Canadian literary nonfiction.

Vancouver-based Harris is a journalist who contributes to The Washington Post, Wired, Time, Salon, Discover, The Huffington Post and The Globe and Mail. He is the author of Solitude and The End of Absence, which won the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

Donna Bailey Nurse of Pickering, Ont., is a literary journalist and a columnist for CBC Radio's The Next Chapter. Her work has appeared in Maclean's, Literary Review of Canada and The Walrus. She is the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing and author of two volumes of What's a Black Critic To Do? and a collection of essays Black Girls: Women of African Descent Write Their World, which will be released later this year.

Montreal-based Joel Yanofsky is the award-winning author of five books, including Mordecai & Me and Bad Animals, both of which won the Mavis Gallant Prize for nonfiction. He has won two National Magazine Awards and has written for Canadian Geographic, Montreal Gazette and the New York Times.

The shortlist for the 2018 prize will be announced on Sept. 19, 2018. The winner will be announced on Nov. 7, 2018 at the Writers' Trust Awards ceremony in Toronto.

The 2017 winner was James Maskalyk for his medical memoir Life on the Ground Floor. Other past winners include Rosemary Sullivan, Naomi Klein and Charles Foran.