Awards Overview

QWF administers various awards programs to acknowledge the fine work being done by Quebec’s aspiring, emerging, and established authors and, in the case of the Judy Mappin Community Award, members of the larger literary community. Literary awards encourage talented young writers to carry on with their careers and give them a credential that may help them get the attention of an agent or publisher. For more established writers, they help raise their profile outside of their home community and generate additional book sales.

La QWF décerne différents prix qui soulignent la qualité du travail des auteurs à toutes les étapes de leur carrière, qu’ils soient en devenir ou bien établis. De plus, le Judy Mappin Community Award rend hommage aux membres de la communauté littéraire au sens large. Ces marques de reconnaissances encouragent les jeunes écrivains talentueux à poursuivre leur carrière en les aidant à attirer l’attention d’un agent ou d’un éditeur, tandis que dans le cas des écrivains qui ont déjà publié des œuvres, les prix aident à accroître leur notoriété à l’extérieur de leur cercle et à augmenter les ventes de leurs œuvres.

The Quebec Writers’ Federation is delighted to announce that submissions for the 2020 QWF Awards are now open. Each prize has a purse of $3,000.

Publishers: You can be added to the email list for future correspondence about the Awards by completing the form in the box “Attention aux éditeurs / Attention Publishers” on this page.

Please read the appropriate call for submissions carefully before completing the submission form, as the eligibility criteria have been slightly modified over the past few years.

Those who are submitting a book for the Concordia University First Book Prize, you may simultaneously submit the book for the fiction, non-fiction, or poetry prize, but you must complete the two separate forms for the prizes you’re submitting to and pay two separate submission fees.