2025 QWF Literary Awards
The 2025 QWF Literary Awards book prizes are now closed to submissions.
Read the Calls for Submissions below to see the eligibility criteria and application instructions for the 2025 Awards.
Click the links below to view the calls for submissions for individual awards. Please read the appropriate Call for Submissions to ensure your work is eligible for a given prize. Note that the eligibility criteria vary depending on the prize. When you’re ready, visit our Submittable to complete the submission form.
Submissions to the 2025 QWF Literary Awards are now closed.
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
The A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
The Concordia University First Book Prize
2025 Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
The 2025 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
2025 Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Longer Chapter Books, Middle-Grade, and Young Adult Literature
2025 Deadline: Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
2025 Deadline: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 11:59 pm ET
The QWF Prize for Playwriting
The QWF Prize for Playwriting is awarded in even-numbered years and is currently closed to submissions. Submissions to the 2026 prize will open in spring 2026.
How to Submit
Submission and payment of submission fees can be done online through Submittable.
Submissions to the 2025 QWF Literary Awards are now closed.