• Short story or poem written by teens age 13 to 18
• Short story–up to 4,000 words; or poem–up to 100 lines
• Only two submissions per person
• First Prize $200, Second Prize $100, Third Prize $50 

• Entry is free! New Brunswick resident students only
  
  How to Participate: 
  
  

• Email your submission and your cover letter to info@wfnb.ca (a cover letter includes your name, address, what school you attend, contact phone number and brief bio) 
• Use the subject line: "Sheree Fitch Prize"
  

2026 Judge: Aren Morris

Aren A. Morris is a Halifax-based arts educator and author. She has been writing, directing, facilitating, and producing student theatre in education for two decades and now works with Halifax Regional Arts. She loves finding ways to incorporate the Performing Arts into Curriculum Delivery. 

Aren’s debut, We Happy Few, is a historical fiction novel taking place in Halifax, NS at the end of the Second World War and was released in May 2022. She is now editing and revising her sophomore novel (another historical fiction set in NS) and recently co-hosted the third installment of The Fantastic Grown Up Book Fair in Mahone Bay.

She currently volunteers on the boards for Afterwords Literary Festival and the Atlantic Book Awards and serves as the Author Coordinator for Read By The Sea Literary Festival. Her other endeavours include poetry, women’s creativity retreats, writing and producing youth theatre and dance shows, and multidisciplinary collaborations with local artists, dancers and writers.

2025 Judge: Jacqueline Halsey

Winners

First Place:         Quinn Mallaley Ryan (Johnville, NB), Dooly

Second Place:     Nadirah Enitan-Adelakun (Moncton, NB), She

Third Place:         Mallory Pitzner (Quispamsis, NB), The Gift of Mortality

Honourable

Mentions:

Athena Whitman The Angel and The Devil

Lilyana Page, Murker

Maya Bishop, A Journey

Sarah Langille, The Family Tradition

Madeline Bowie, The Corn Maze

Tyler Prasad, Resses and Rex

Athena Whitman, Little Ball of Rage

2024 Judge: Jay McGrath

Winners

First Place, Yutong (Teresa) Wu, Moncton, Sunken Ship of Theseus  

Second Place, Allison O’Reilly, Quispamsis, Nameless  

Third Place: Madeline Bowie, Fredericton, Where I’m From  

Honourable Mentions:

Sarah Hackett,  The Wolf Cries 

Ziwen Wang,   Wait For Me To Come Home 

Lilyana Page,  Goldilocks and the Wolf

Eliza Johnson,  Lost Echoes 

Quinn Ryan, Centerstage

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Enitan-Adelakun, Melting Horizons 

Sarah Harfoush, Mind of Walls

2022 - 2023 Judge: Hope Dalvay

Winners

First Place: Charlotte Upright (Moncton, NB), A Valley of Burnt Skies

Second Place: Grace Pusey (Grand Bay-Westfield, NB), Floopinsbag, Duffelnoth, and Sir George the Scared

Third Place: Liam Johnson (Saint John, NB), Winter’s Claws

2021 - 2022 Judge: Lana Button

Winners

First Place: Meaghan Whittier, Through a Child’s Eyes

Second Place: Tori Garnett, Teenage Years

Third Place: Caleb Bulmer, The Main Act

Honourable

Mention: Simon Hatfield, A Desperately Needed Change