Writers' Federation of New Brunswick

The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick and The Fiddlehead have announced the judges for the 6th annual New Brunswick Book Awards. The program will celebrate books published in the 2020 calendar year in the poetry, fiction and nonfiction categories and children’s picture books published in the 2019 and 2020 calendar years. Submissions will be accepted until December 1, 2020.

https://www.cbc.ca//new-artists-group-celebrates-black-cre

Congratulations to WFNB's Lynn Davis on your new book. A great Christmas idea for the little person in your nature-loving life! https://nimbus.ca/store/so-imagine-me.html

Writing Who You Don’t Know: A Character Workshop with Sharon Bala How do we write from outside our experience? Specifically: how do we create characters whose skin colour, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or gender are not our own? How do we ensure the characters ring true? In this workshop we will cover dangerous tropes and how to avoid them, the importance of research, subject matter experts, why getting it right is important, practical advice for character building, and ask the crucial questions: why do you want to tell this story and are you equipped for the job?

Save the date! This is an amazing launch you won't want to miss. Published by Frog Hollow Press, Cadence is a poetry anthology celebrating some of the best established and emerging female/non-binary poets within NB! This multilingual translation edition celebrates each poet in their language of choice, so we have poetry in Arabic, English, French, German and Vietnamese. Thank you so much to our partners at the Frye Festival, the City of Moncton, the Association of Literary Translators of Canada, and Tourism, Culture and Heritage NB for your support.

We're excited to announced that our 2020 Poetry Contest is open for submissions! The contest will be judged this year by Jenna Lyn Albert, Adèle Barclay and Can...isia Lubrin! One prize of $2000 for the best poem! Deadline is December 1, 2020! Click the link to submit your poetry! https://thefiddlehead.submittable.com/submit