Poetry Manuscript 

• 48 to 96 pages by a New Brunswick resident author or WFNB member
• Individual poems can be previously published, but the manuscript
  must be unpublished
• First Prize $350, Second Prize $200, Third Prize 1 year WFNB membership

2025 Judge: Kathy Mac

Winners 

First Place:                Carol Shillibeer (Glace Bay, NS) _language be like_

Second Place:           Melanie Craig Hansford (Hampton),

                                    Take Your Wild and Hang It on a Nail

Third Place:               Roger Moore (Island View), Clepsydra

Honourable Mentions:

                                    Frederick Mundle (Moncton), Moments in Time

                                    Gerald Arthur Moore (Moncton), Rat Romeo

2024 Judge: Susan Gillis

Winners

First Place: Wolf Peach- Author: Grace Taylor, Fredericton, NB

Second Place: Unfinished Lines – Author: Ed Lemond, New Richmond, Quebec

Third Place: The Reign – Author: Shane Neilson, Cambridge, Ontario

Honourable Mention: wings of a moth, Author: Jane Tims, Rusagonis

2022 - 2023 Judge: Alice Burdick

Winners

First Prize: Agata Antonow (Florenceville-Bristol, NB ), Her Strange Position

Second Prize: John McNeil (NB), Bigfoot at the Lord Nelson

Third Prize: Ian LeTourneau (Fredericton, NB), Metadata from a Changing Climate

2021 - 2022 Judge: Trevor Corkum

Winners

First Prize: Amy Murphy, Cliffs and Piles

Second Prize: Phillip Crymble, The Rowan Berries of Winter

Third Prize:  Jane Tims, persist, perish, escape

Honourable Mention: Bryn Harris, The Anthem of the White-Throated Sparrow