Laura MacGregor wrote about her experience of extreme caregiving and won the CBC Nonfiction Prize

Waterloo, Ont.-based writer Laura MacGregor has won the 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize for her story The Invisible Woman .

She will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity . MacGregor's story was published on CBC Books . You can read The Invisible Woman here .

If you're interested in other writing competitions, the 2026 CBC Short Story Prize is currently accepting submissions. You have until Nov. 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET to submit original, unpublished short fiction that is up to 2,500 words.

MacGregor is a writer, lapsed academic and the mother of three sons, one of whom lived with profound disabilities and complex medical needs for two decades. To make sense of her life as an extreme