The HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is a bi-annual award, offering literary representation by CookeMcDermid Literary Agency and an advance and book publication by HarperCollinsPublishersLtd.
Call for Submissions
Submissions may be made only by currently enrolled students and previous graduates of UBC Creative Writing.
2024 Prize for Best New Fiction
The HarperCollinsPublishersLtd/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction is awarded bi-annually. The next opportunity will be in 2024. Expect updated application information in Spring 2024.
Letters to Prospective Entrants
Letters will be updated in Spring 2024.
Rules and Regulations
Rules and regulations will be updated in Spring 2024.
Past Winnners
- Ursula 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