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WordSpring

Our annual weekend festival of professional development workshops, readings, the NB Writing Competition Literary Soirée, and the New Brunswick Book Awards live ceremony. It is held in late spring, attracting participants from the Maritimes and beyond.

WordsFall

Our outreach program of workshops and readings takes place in smaller rural New Brunswick communities in late autumn.

NB Writing Competition

Awards several thousand dollars in cash prizes. It is open to all New Brunswickers as well as WFNB members everywhere.

Writers in the Schools Program (WiSP)

The Writers in the Schools Program (WiSP) brings writers into the classroom to encourage reading and literacy. We manage WiSP in partnership with the New Brunswick Department of Education, which fully funds the program.

NB Book Awards

Each spring, the WFNB hosts the New Brunswick Book Awards. It is a privilege to honour NB authors, and celebrate our homegrown talent.

We also conceived and produced Breaking the Word Barrier, a book created in collaboration with Laubach Literacy NB. It tells personal stories of struggles with literacy, as revealed through interviews of adult literacy students by WFNB members.

Territorial Acknowledgement

The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick acknowledges that the land on which we live, work and gather is the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq Peoples, and we honour the spirit of our ancestors’ Treaties of Peace and Friendship.