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 was up for awards in both fiction and poetry categories this year!
Close to 30 nominees — with much overlap as some authors were up for more than 1 award, like Alexander Macleod, Johanna Skibsrud, and Kate Evans — were in the big crowd at the award ceremony last night in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
For a fuller lowdown: http://www.atlanticbookawards.ca/
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. Congrats to Winner Kathleen Winter & 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. Congrats to 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.” Congrats to 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.”
Congrats to Alexander Macleod’s & Light Lifting
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