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2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards - call for submissions

The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are biennial, covering a two-calendar-year publishing period; the pairings are Children's/Young Adult Literature and Fiction in one year, and Poetry and Non-fiction the next year. Awards are presented in the spring. The two winners each receive a cash prize of $1,500 and runners-up receive $500 each.

Awards for Children's/Young Adult Literature and for Fiction will be given in 2012.

Submission guidelines

Residency requirements

  1. The awards are open only to residents of Newfoundland and Labrador.*
  2. To meet the residency requirements, the author must have lived in Newfoundland and Labrador for at least 36 months of the last 5 years. The residency period for the 2012 awards is the five calendar years 2007-2011.
*Writers who do not meet this requirement are invited to submit a letter explaining their status as a Newfoundlander and/or Labradorian. The Awards Committee will review each situation and determine if an exception to the residency requirement can be granted. The writer will be notified as soon as possible.

Eligible works:

  1. The 2012 awards for Children's/Young Adult Literature and Fiction are for books published between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011.
  2. Books must be single-authored.
  3. Anthologies and audio books are not eligible.
  4. Books that have been translated are eligible. However, in the case of a translated book, the award is to go exclusively to the author.
  5. Books that have been taken from dictation are also eligible, but, again, only the prime creator of the work will be given the award.
  6. Books that contain other media in addition to writing (photos, CDs, graphics, etc. by the writer or other artists) are eligible as long as there is only one writer. The award will be given only to the writer of the book's text and only for the writing.
  7. Self-published and "vanity" published books are eligible as long as they are professionally produced, i.e., printed by a quality company.
  8. Members of the Literary Awards Committee are not eligible.
  9. Revised editions will be considered when the following conditions are met:
    • The book has not been previously submitted to The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards; and
    • In the opinion of the Literary Awards Committee, the book contains new material to the extent that it is not merely a re-issue of a previous publication.
How to submit:

NOTE: Only Children's/Young Adult Literature and Fiction books being printed up to and including December 31, 2011, will be accepted for the 2012 awards.

To submit, send 4 non-returnable copies of each book, along with a signed letter stating the category entered and confirming that all outlined requirements have been met, to:

Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards
Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador
Haymarket Square, 202-223 Duckworth Street
St. Johns, NL, A1C 6N1

Submissions deadline:

Postmarked no later than Friday, January 13, 2012. **Earlier submissions encouraged.**

The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are presented by the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and by the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador under the distinguished patronage of The Honourable John C. Crosbie, PC, OC, ONL, QC, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. They are financed by corporate and private sponsors.

            
Distinguished
Patron of the awards:
The Honourable
John C. Crosbie,
PC, OC, ONL, QC
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador


Previous winners of The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards.
The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador gratefully acknowledges the financial support of
the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the City of St. John's.
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