» Julia Elliott has won the $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her collection Hellions.

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Today, at a ceremony in Toronto, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which awards $150,000 annually to women and non-binary writers with books published in Canada and the US, announced its 2026 winner: Julia Elliott’s short story collection Hellions (Tin House Books). This year’s jury was comprised of Carmen Maria Machado (Chair), Ivan Coyote, Cherie […]


Elliott Management takes $4B stake in PepsiCo

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Elliott Investment Management has taken a $4 billion stake in PepsiCo as the activist hedge fund led by billionaire Paul Singer presses for changes to boost the company’s stock price. The Wall Street Journal first broke the news on Tuesday of Elliott’s position, now one of the soda maker’s biggest-ever investors, that helped lift shares […]