Four books have been named to the 2024 BMO Winterset Award shortlist.

The annual award, now in its 25th year, celebrates Newfoundland and Labrador writers across all genres, granting a $12,500 prize to the winner. This year, to celebrate the award’s anniversary, two $12,500 prizes will be awarded: one to a work of fiction and one to a work of nonfiction. Two finalists will each be granted $3,000.

The award is administered by ArtsNL. This year, 30 entries were received.

The four finalists were selected from the seven-book longlist announced earlier this month.

The finalists are:

• Art of Camouflage by Sara Power (Freehand Books)
• Invisible Prisons by Lisa Moore and Jack Whelan (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Otherwise Grossly Unremarkable by Ashleigh Matthews (Breakwater Books)
• Vigil by Susie Taylor (Breakwater Books)

The winners will be announced at an April 10 ceremony at Government House in St. John’s.