Submissions for books published in the 2025 calendar year are now closed.

Eligibility criteria 

1) You must be a resident of New Brunswick to participate. For co-written books to be eligible, at least one co-author must be a New Brunswick resident. - A NB resident is defined as a person living in the province for three of the last five years, and for more than 50% of each year, including the year of the award, and who has not claimed another province as their primary residence or claimed this book as eligible for a writing award in another province. 

2) Submitted books must have been published in the current calendar year (Jan - Dec) by NB residents. Books can be submitted by the publisher or the author.  

3)  Non-eligible titles: Unfortunately, we do not accept anthologies, translations, reprints, or re-issues.

4) We accept printed books only: no ebooks, please.

6) Human-authored books only: Content that has been generated in whole or in part using large language models (generative AI) are not admissible. (Read our policy on generative AI)

7) A book is defined as being at least 48 pages long, with an ISBN number and is readily available for sale in printed form.

• Picture Books - The Alice Kitts Memorial Award
• Middle Grade, Young Adult and New Adult - Books for Youth and Young Adult Award
• Fiction - Mrs. Dunster's Fiction Prize
• Non-fiction - The WFNB Nonfiction Award
• Poetry - The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize