Single Poem

• Unpublished single poem by a New Brunswick resident author or WFNB member
• Up to 100 lines
• First Prize $200, Second Prize $100, Third Prize 1 year WFNB membership

2026 Judge: Sharon Berg

The Judge, Sharon Berg, said: “Submissions for 2026 suggest the range of thought and skill among New Brunswick’s poets, while achieving great heights, is highly influenced by world politics and our contemporary circumstances. It should be no surprise, though we may not have expected to see articulation of resistance to conflict in a medium many assume has a hallmark card focus. The authors this time deal with real life: from actual wars to the ruthless treatment of lovers, to frustration that so many of us need to be reminded again that we can learn something from history. ”

First Place:  Ramneet Kalra (Fredericton), 

Across the Years, Across the Oceans

Second Place:   Stephen Roney (Saint John),

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Third Place:   K. Jordan MacKenzie (Moncton),

Left Behind

Honourable Mentions:

                            Kathleen MacDonald (Saint John), ebb_a pantoum

                            David White (Gatineau PQ), Fireflies

Tyler Hache (Moncton), In the Line of Fire

Bryn Harris (Grand Manan), Reach

Susan Dean (Alma), The Things You Learn,

Living in a War Zone

2025 Judge: Anita Lahey

Winners:

First Place:                Susan Dean (Alma), The Door to My Heart

Second Place:           Frederick Mundle (Moncton), Once a Man

Third Place:               Bryn Harris (Grand Manan), The Thing Missing

Honourable Mentions:

                                    Susan Dean (Alma), Reverence

                                    Mira Dietz Chiasson (Sackville), Ulla

2024 Judge: Jeanette Lynes
Winners

First Prize: A Crack in the Idyllic – Author, KC Clark, Saint Andrews

Second Prize: Time Moves Backwards for Herakles in the Dollhouse – Author, Grace Taylor, Fredericton

Third Prize: Expiration – Author, Melanie Craig-Hansford, Hampton

Honourable Mention: Red Mug – Author, Jennifer McMullin, Fredericton

2022 - 2023 Judge: Dr. Sean Wiebe

Winners

First Place: Melanie Craig-Hansford (Hampton, NB), My other ride is your Mother

Second Place: Heather Gunn (Shediac, NB), Cosmopolitan Magazine says I should be Tangled in the Sheets

Third Place: Melanie Craig-Hansford (Hampton, NB), The Night I Lost Her

2021 - 2022 Judge: Leigh Faulkner

Winners

First Place: Edyn Clowater, The Story Never Told

Second Place: Shaun Cunningham, Grid Road, Saskatchewan

Third Place: Shari Andrews, Her Open Mouth

Honourable Mention: Shari Andrews, Snow on Evergreen

Honourable Mention: Frederick Mundle, One Sighting