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The Mrs. Dunster's Fiction Prize recognizes the best book of fiction (novels or short story collections - no anthologies, please) published by a New Brunswick resident each year. The $500 prize has been sponsored by Mrs. Dunster's since 2015.
Mrs. Dunster's is locally owned and operated by the Hyslop Family, purchased by Blair and Rosalyn Hyslop in June 2014. Mrs. Dunster's sells donuts and other baked goods across the Maritime provinces and New England. And while the business may have grown over the years, the products produced by Mrs. Dunster's in Sussex still carry that homemade taste — the same way Mrs. Dunster would have made them.
2023 Awards
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Lisa Alward, Cocktail (Biblioasis, 2023)
Finalists:
Luke Francis Beirne, Blacklion (Baraka Books, 2023), Saint John
Valerie Sherrard, Standing on Neptune (DCB Cormorant, 2023), Miramichi
2022 Awards
Winner: Lee D. Thompson,
APastoral: A Mistopia
Corona/Samizdat
Finalists
Meghan Rose Allen, The Summer the School Burned Down. Independent.
Valerie Sherrard, A Bend in the Breeze. DCB Cormorant
2021 Awards
Winner: Beth Powning,
The Sister's Tale
Knopf Canada
Finalists
Amber McMillan, The Running Trees. Goose Lane.
Valerie Sherrard, Birdspell. DCB Cormorant
2020 Awards
Winner: Riel Nason
Waiting Under Water
Scholastic Canada
Finalists
Mark Anthony Jarman, Czech Techno, Anvil Press.
Kathleen Peacock, You Were Never Here. Harper Teen
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2019 Awards
Winner: Sarah Xarar Murphy Itzel I: A Tlatelolco Awakening Guernica Editions
Finalists Chris Eaton, Symphony No. 3. Book*hug Press.
Susan White, Fear of Drowning. Acorn Press.
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2018 Awards
Winner: Raymond Frasier Through Sunlight and Shadows Pottersfield Press
Finalists Meghan Rose Allen, Enid Strange. DCB/Cormorant.
Susan White, Headliner. Acorn.
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2017 Awards
Winner: Peter J. Clair Taapoategl & Pallet Chapel Street Editions
Finalists Wayne Curtis, Home Coming. Pottersfield Press.
M.T. Dohaney, Caplin Scull. Pottersfield Press.
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2016 Awards
Winner: Kerry-Lee Powell Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush HarperCollins
Finalists Roger Moore, Bistro. Self-published.
Riel Nason, All the Things We Leave Behind. Goose Lane
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2015 Awards
Winner: Beth Powning A Measure of Light Knopf
Finalists R.W. Gray, Entropic. Newest Press.
Mark Anthony Jarman, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa. Goose Lane.
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