The seventh annual New Brunswick Book Awards were announced at a live event on June 4 in Fredericton.

The awards are presented in partnership by the Writers’ Federation and The Fiddlehead. The shortlisted titles had been announced in March.

The winners are:

Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction

The Sister’s Tale by Beth Powning (Knopf Canada)

Alice Kitts Memorial Award for Excellence in Children’s Writing

Disaster at the Highland Games by Riel Nason and Nathasha Pilotte, ill. (Chocolate River Publishing)

The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize

 Myself a Paperclip by Triny Finlay (Goose Lane Editions)

Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Nonfiction Award

Senior Management: Parenting My Parents by Martha Vowles (Nevermore Press)