The Atlantic Book Awards — an annual awards conglomerate of 11 awards, ranging from fiction to poetry to children’s to non-fiction to bookseller’s choice — have just revealed their shortlists.
The awards involving fiction and poetry are listed below.
Click a title to read more about that book.
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
This prestigious award is for “the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by an Atlantic Canadian Writer,” and is awarded by Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: Michael Cummey’s Galore, Linden MacIntyre’s The Bishop’s Man, and Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky.
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
This award is “the best first book of fiction or non-fiction published in the previous year by an Atlantic Canadian author.”
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: Binnie Brennan’s Harbour View, Greg Malone’s You Better Watch Out, and Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky.
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Brand new this year, this award ”recognizes an author (or authors) who excels at illuminating the Atlantic region’s vibrant history and acknowledges the work of the publisher who makes the book available.”
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: Raoul R. Anderson and John K. Crellin’s Mi’sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey, Greg Cochkanoff and Bob Chaulk’s SS Atlantic: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea, and Mike Heffernan’s Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster.
Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
Awarded to ”the best books published the previous year in celebration of Nova Scotia and its people.”
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: George Elliott Clarke’s I & I, Linden MacIntyre’s The Bishop’s Man, and Anna Quon’s Migration Songs.
Atlantic Poetry Prize
Awarded to ”the best work of poetry published in the previous year by an Atlantic Canadian poet.”
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: Anne Compton’s Asking Questions Indoors and Out, Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen’s Lean-To, and Zachariah Wells’ Track & Trace.
Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award
“A Call For Nominations is sent out to members of the Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Association, asking for their top three books. The three most-nominated titles make up the shortlist, which is then sent out to the booksellers to vote on.”
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: Michael Crummey’s Galore, Linden MacIntyre’s, The Bishop’s Man, and David Adams Richards’ God Is.
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
“The Best Atlantic-Published Book recognizes publishing companies and their hardworking professionals who bring out new books each season. Each year, a publisher whose book possesses the best balance of content, presentation, quality of design and production, as well as contributing the most to an understanding of Atlantic Canada, receives the award.”
This year’s shortlist, and big congrats to: Ian Warkentin and Sandy Newton’s Birds of Newfoundland Field Guide, Trudy Morgan-Cole’s By the Rivers of Brooklyn, and David A. Francis and Robert M. Leavitt’s A Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary.
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