2023-2024 Awards’ Submissions Are Open!

Submissions are now open for the 2024 Nova Scotia Book Awards and the 2024 Atlantic Book Awards. For information and submission guidelines for the awards managed by the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS) — including the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature, the Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award, the J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award — please visit the WFNS Book Awards page. And, note that the submission deadline for all award nominations is November 1, 2023!

For information and submission guidelines for the following Nova Scotia Book Awards — Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), George Borden Writing for Change Award (Nonfiction), Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Fiction), and Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Nonfiction) — please visit the Dartmouth Book Awards Eligibility Criteria & Submission Requirements page. November 1, 2023 is also the submission deadline for all these Nova Scotia Book Awards.