David Adams Richards Prize

Fiction Manuscript

• Story collection, novella, or novel extract
• 15,000 to 30,000 words
• Individual stories can be previously published, but a novella or novel extract must be unpublished
• First Prize $400, Second Prize $200, Third Prize 1 year WFNB membership

2024 Judge: Trudy J. Morgan

Trudy Morgan-Cole is a writer and educator in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is the author of numerous works of historical fiction including By the Rivers of Brooklyn, Most Anything You Please, and A Sudden Sun. Her latest work, the Cupids Trilogy (A Roll of the Bones, Such Miracles and Mischiefs, A Company of Rogues), is a fictional exploration of the earliest English settlements on the island of Newfoundland. Trudy's particular interest is in uncovering and re-imagining the lost and silenced voices of women in history.

2022-23 judge: Michelle Wamboldt 

Winners: 

First Place – Zev Bagel (Shediac, NB) for Seeking Isak Lowenstein

Second Place – Ed Lemond (New Richmond, QC) for The Last Thing She Said

Third Place – Kelly Alcorn (Rollingdam, NB), Grand Manan

2021-22 judge: Thomas Moore

Winners:

First Place - Heather Gunn, Her Wilco Years

Second Place – Vanessa Hawkins, Dante's Inferno: Canto X

Third Place - Richard Toth, Easy Up and Down