The Scotiabank Giller Prize has announced the jury for the 2022 prize. The annual $100,000 literary award is the biggest in Canadian fiction.

Canadian author Casey Plett will chair the five-person panel. Joining her are Canadian authors Kaie Kellough and Waubgeshig Rice and American writers Katie Kitamura and Scott Spencer.

Plett was born in Manitoba and has lived in Ontario, Oregon and New York. Her novel Little Fish won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award for best transgender fiction. Her short story collection, A Safe Girl to Love, also won a Lambda Literary Award. Plett was awarded an Honour of Distinction from The Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. Her most recent book is the short story collection A Dream of a Woman, which was longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Kellough is a poet, fiction writer and sound performer based in Montreal. His novels include Dominoes at the Crossroads, which is on the Canada Reads 2022 longlist and was also on the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist; and Accordéon, which was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2017. He is also the author of the poetry collection Magnetic Equator, which won the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Waubgeshig Rice is an Anishinaabe author, journalist and former CBC radio host originally from Wasauksing First Nation. Rice's first short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge, which was about his life growing up in his Anishinaabe community, won an Independent Publishers Book Award in 2012. His debut novel, Legacy, was published in 2014, with a French language translation published in 2017. His breakout book, Moon of the Crusted Snow, is a dystopian novel about a northern Anishinaabe community who must return to traditional practices to survive the collapse of their power grid during winter.

Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic. Kitamura's most recent novel, Intimacies, was named by The New York Times as among the 10 best books of 2021. The novel was also a Barack Obama recommended read and was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book.

Spencer is an American writer who lives in New York. He is the author of 12 novels, including Endless Love, Waking the Dead, A Ship Made of Paper, and Man in the Woods. He has been nominated for the National Book Award three times and has taught at Columbia University, Williams College and the University of Virginia.

Submissions for the prize are currently open. Books in English written by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident published between Oct. 1, 2022 and Feb. 22, 2022 are eligible.

The longlist will be announced in September in St. John's, with the shortlist to follow later in the fall in Toronto. The winner will be announced in November.

Last year's winner was Omar El Akkad for his novel What Strange Paradise. What Strange Paradise is on the Canada Reads 2022 longlist.

Other past winners include Souvankham Thammavongsa for How to Pronounce Knife, Esi Edugyan for novels Washington Black and Half-Blood Blues, Michael Redhill for Bellevue Square, Margaret Atwood for Alias Grace, Mordecai Richler for Barney's Version, Alice Munro for Runaway, André Alexis for Fifteen Dogs and Madeleine Thien for Do Not Say We Have Nothing.

For the second time, the Scotiabank Giller Prize is presenting a book club highlighting the 2021 longlisted titles. A series of events are scheduled, each featuring a different longlisted author, from January until June.