The HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is a bi-annual award, offering literary representation by CookeMcDermid Literary Management and an advance and book publication by HarperCollinsPublishersLtd.
Winner and Shortlist for the 2026 award
Call for Submissions
Submissions may be made only by currently enrolled students and previous graduates of UBC Creative Writing.
2026 Prize for Best New Fiction
The HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is awarded bi-annually. The next opportunity will be in 2028.
Letters to Prospective Entrants
We invite prospective entrants to read the welcome letters from HarperCollinsPublishersLtd and CookeMcDermid Literary Management.
Rules and Regulations
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, in cooperation with the University of British Columbia School of Creative Writing and CookeMcDermid Literary Agency, is calling for submissions for the 2026 HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction (the “Call for Submissions”).
Past Winners
- The First Seed, by Emily Cann
- Pearly Everlasting, by Tammy Armstrong
- The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy
- Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith
- The Ghost Keeper by Natalie Morrill
- In the Place of Silence (published as The Good Sister) by Chelsea Bolan
- Book of Sands by Karim Alrawi