| 2022 Submissions closedSubmissions for our 2022 season are now closed. For 2023, check our Eligibility Criteria, then send two copies of eligible books along with the 2023 Entry Form when it becomes available. We'll post here before the end of June, 2023. New Brunswick Book Awards Queries: info@wfnb.ca Announcing the Shortlisted Titles for the 2022 NB Book AwardsFor Immediate Release Shortlisted Titles Announced for New Brunswick Book Awards April 11, 2023 – The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) and The Fiddlehead have announced the shortlisted titles for the 8th annual New Brunswick Book Awards. The winners will be revealed at an awards ceremony on Saturday, June 3, as part of WFNB’s annual WordSpring writing festival in Saint John. The program will celebrate books published in the 2022 calendar year in the poetry, fiction, nonfiction and children’s picture books categories. The finalists are as follows:
Valerie Sherrard, A Bend in the Breeze (DCB Cormorant), Miramichi Meghan Rose Allen, The Summer the School Burned Down (Indie-published), Sackville Lee D. Thompson, Apastoral: A Mistopia (Corona/Samizdat), Moncton
Kelly Cooper, Midnight and Moon (Tundra), Belleisle Creek; illustrated Daniel Miyares Jennifer McGrath, Pugs Cause Traffic Jams (Kids Can Press), Hillsborough; illustrated by Kathryn Durst Masen Grasse, Trucks (Monster House Publishing); illustrated by Alexina LePage
Amber McMillan, This Is A Stickup, (Wolsak and Wynn), Fredericton Michael Pacey, Wild Apples: A Dialogue With Thoreau (Pottersfield Press), Fredericton Sue Sinclair, Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions), Fredericton
James Mullinger, Brit Happens* Or Living the Canadian Dream, (Goose Lane), Rothesay Mark Anthony Jarman, Touch Anywhere to Begin (Goose Lane) Fredericton Jon Claytor, Take the Long Way Home (Conundrum Press), Sackville The New Brunswick Book Awards are open to traditionally published and self-published authors who have lived in the province for three of the last five years, including the award year. The book awards program represents a partnership between the Writers’ Federation, which for more than 35 years has passionately supported the development of home-grown writers at all stages of development, and The Fiddlehead, Canada’s oldest literary magazine, which has nurtured New Brunswick's literary culture for more than 75 years. |