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

Eligibility criteria: books published in the current calendar year by NB residents. Books can be submitted by the publisher or the author.  

1) You must be a resident of New Brunswick to participate - 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) Your book must have been (or will be) published in the current calendar year -  January to December 2025

3) First publication only - no second or third editions

4) For a co-written book to be eligible, at least one co-author must be a New Brunswick resident.

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

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