The annual New Brunswick Book Awards were presented on June 3 in Saint John, New Brunswick, as part of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB) writing festival, WordSpring.

Awards for excellence in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and children’s picture books were handed out.

Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction

• Lee D. Thompson, Apastoral: A Mistopia (Corona/Samizda/Lightning Source)

The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize

• Sue Sinclair, Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions)

Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Nonfiction Award

• James Mullinger, Brit Happens* Or Living the Canadian Dream (Goose Lane Editions)

Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing

• Kelly Cooper, Midnight and Moon; Daniel Miyares, illus. (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)

The New Brunswick Book Awards program is administered in a partnership between the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick and The Fiddlehead literary magazine.