TORONTO – Lisa Moore, Lynn Coady and Colin McAdam are among the finalists for this year’s $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Moore, a St. John’s writer who received many accolades for her 2009 novel “February,” has made the short list with “Caught” (House of Anansi Press).

The book is also on the long list for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Meanwhile, Coady — a former Giller finalist from Cape Breton, N.S. — is a Writers’ Trust contender with the short story collection “Hellgoing” (House of Anansi Press).

That book is also up for this year’s Giller.

And McAdam, also a former Giller finalist who has lived around the world and is now based in Toronto, is up for the Trust for “A Beautiful Truth” (Hamish Hamilton Canada).

The other two fiction finalists are Toronto native Cary Fagan for “A Bird’s Eye (House of Anansi Press) and Krista Bridge of Toronto for “The Eliot Girls” (Douglas & McIntyre).

Jury members Caroline Adderson, Alison Pick, and Miguel Syjuco read 115 books from 50 publishers to choose the five finalists, who will each receive $2,500.

Winners for the award, as well as several others, will be announced on Nov. 20 in Toronto.

Last year’s fiction winner was Waterloo, Ont.-based Tamas Dobozy for the short story collection “Siege 13.”

The Writers’ Trust of Canada is a charitable organization founded by authors including Margaret Atwood and the late Pierre Berton.