NB Book Awards

Celebrating the books and authors of New Brunswick! The New Brunswick Book Awards is a production of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick.

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The submission deadline draws closer for titles published in 2025 - December 1! Get your books in today to compete in five categories. https://t.co/YAdbc1JkZd

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The WFNB is adding a fifth category to the NB Book Awards program - now open for submissions for books published by NB authors in 2024. Read more about the Books for Young Readers award, generously sponsored by JD Irving Ltd., here: https://t.co/YAdbc1JkZd

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You can read about the 2023-24 winners here https://t.co/YAdbc1JkZd (photo below, left to right are Anne Koval, Fawn Parker and Lisa Alward - missing is Sara O'Leary), but you can celebrate the shortlist all year long!

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Congrats to all the shortlisted authors. More details to come for our virtual ceremony later this spring. In the meantime, buy the books and happy reading! 📚

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Our 2020 Book Prize shortlists have been announced!

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Thanks to all our judges: Yusuf Saadi (poetry), Mark Sampson (fiction), Naomi K Lewis (nonfiction), and Frieda Wishinsky (picture books)!

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Introducing this year’s winners of the Nee Brunswick Book Awards! Poetry: @Jenn_Houle Nonfiction: @DannyJJacobs Fiction: Sarah Xerar Murphy

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Announcing our 2019 Shortlist books!

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We are thrilled, also, to announce the winner of the 2019 @SheriDWilson #GoldenBeret Award for excellence and innovation in spoken word poetry, Andrea Thompson! 🌟 https://t.co/666bxNP3pF

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Congratulations @eastmiles, @ToMakePoesis & @steviehowl, the winners of the League’s 2019 Book Awards! We are proud to honour these 3 incredible books! Congratulations, also, to their publishers: @coachhousebooks, @PalimpsestPress & @McClellandBooks https://t.co/666bxNP3pF

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And of course, the winner of the 2019 #RaymondSouster Award for a book of poetry by a member of the League: I left nothing inside on purpose by Stevie Howell (@steviehowl)(@McClellandBooks)! 🌟 https://t.co/666bxNP3pF

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And now, the winner of the 2019 #PatLowther Memorial Award for a book of poetry by a woman: Ekke by Klara du Plessis (@ToMakePoesis) (@PalimpsestPress)! 🌟 https://t.co/666bxNP3pF

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Announcing the winner of the 2019 #GeraldLampert Memorial Award for a debut book of poetry: Obits. by Tess Liem (@EastMiles) (@coachhousebooks)! 🌟 https://t.co/666bxNP3pF

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And the @WritersNB Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for NONFICTION: Wayne Curtis for Fishing the High Country (@goose_lane), Stephen May for The Wisdom of Beauty (@ChapelStEdition), & @PoitrasBook for Pipe Dreams (@PenguinRandomCA) 5/5

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Announcing our 2018 shortlists! 1/5

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The shortlist for The Fiddlehead POETRY Book Prize (@TheFiddlehd ) are @JennaLynAlbert for Bec & Call (@NightwoodEd),
@hermenegilde17 for To Live and Die in Scoudouc, translated by Jo-Anne Elder (@goose_lane) & Kayla Geitzler for That Light Feeling Under Your Feet (@NeWestPress)

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PICTURE BOOKS. The 3 shortlisted authors for the Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing are Kelly Cooper for If a Horse Had Words (@PenguinCanada), Braelyn Cyr for Mahtoqehs Journey (Monster House) and @JoannHBauthor for There Be Pirates! (@NimbusPub )3/5