Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the 2024 Nova Writes Competition for Unpublished Manuscripts!
Budge Wilson Short Fiction Prize: J.P. Smith for “The Hooper”
Runners-up: Matthew Anderson for “A Life in its Pieces”
and Victor Maddalena for “The Blind Pig”
H.R. (Bill) Percy Short Creative Non-Fiction Prize: Kyle Hooper for “Shining Abbie’s Shoes”
Runners-up: Kathy France for “Arrival”
and Anya Zub for “Shards of Glass”
Rita Joe Poetry Prize: Blue Bailey for “Lethe”
Runners-up: Susan Drain for “From the Great War”
and Logan Lawrence for “(a)part”
Our deep gratitude to the judges of this year’s competition, who provided written feedback for all entries in our five prize categories, including for the Joyce Barkhouse Writing for Young Adults Prize and Le prix Félix Thibodeau de la forme courte, which were not awarded this year. Written feedback will be sent to entrants starting on May 8.
J.P. Smith, Kyle Hooper, and Blue Bailey will read from their manuscripts at the Celebration of Emerging Writers—alongside the 2024 recipients of the Emerging Writers Prizes and the 2024 graduates of the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program—on Wednesday, May 29 (6:30pm – 8:30pm), at Café Lara (2347 Agricola St, Halifax).