The Atlantic Book Awards are an annual awards conglomerate of 11 awards, ranging from fiction to poetry to children’s to non-fiction to bookseller’s choice.
Very Notable: Johanna Skibsrud is up for awards in fiction and poetry categories!
Have a look at all 11 shortlists here
Some of the awards involving fiction and poetry are listed below.
Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
The Thomas Head Raddall Award is a 20,000$ award is for “the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by an Atlantic Canadian Writer.” It is awarded by Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
This Year’s Shortlist: Alexander Macleod’s Light Lifting, Beth Powning’s The Sea Captain’s Wife, Kathleen Winter’s Annabel
Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award
Each year, 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 is: Deborah Carr’s Sanctuary, Sheree Fitch’s Pluto’s Ghost, and Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentamentalists
Atlantic Poetry Prize
Awarded to ”the best work of poetry published in the previous year by an Atlantic Canadian poet.”
This Year’s Shortlist: Johanna Skibsrud’s I Do Not Think I Could Love a Human Being,Douglas Burnet Smith’s Learning to Count, John Steffler’s Lookout
John and Margaret Savage First Book Award
The John and Margaret Savage First Book Award is given out to “the best first book of fiction or non-fiction published in the previous year by an Atlantic Canadian author.”
This Year’s Shortlist: Kate Evans’s Where Old Ghosts Meet, Jerry Lockett’s Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada, Alexander Macleod’s Light Lifting
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