Atlantic Book Awards2018

Given by Atlantic Book Awards Society

Other Names: Ann Connor Brimer Award, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Prince Edward Island Book Award, PEI Book Award, Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-fiction, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration, Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration, Jim Connors Book Award, George Borden Writing for Change Award, Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature, Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction, Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Awards, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction, Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book, Ann Connor Brimer Book Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
34 Works / 43 Items 825 Books 61 Reviews ½ 3.8
Given out as part of the Atantic Book Awards, the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award is given annually to a book with stong sales which is somehow connected to the Atlantic region of show more Canada. Members of the Atlantic Booksellers' Association each submit their top three books, with the shortlist being created from the three most nominated titles. The Booksellers then choose a winner from this list. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (203), Finalist (20), Shortlist (256), Nominee (2), No Stage (57)
Categories:
All, APMA Best Atlantic Published Book (38), Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction (12), Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature (51), Artiste de l’année en littérature (1), Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award (27), Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award (2), Ches Crosbie Barristers Fiction Award (1), D250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction) (1), Dartmouth Book Award (38), Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) (9), Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) (16), Dartmouth Book Award - Fiction (33), Dartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (6), Dartmouth Book Awards (Fiction) (1), Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing (28), Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) (1), Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) (1), Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction, Dartmouth Book Awards (Non-Fiction) (1), E.J. Pratt Poetry Award (3), Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (1), Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award (20), Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction (29), J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (5), Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) (26), Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration (40), Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (24), Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction (9), Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction (5), New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction (2), New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction (1), New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (3), Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction (2), Non-Fiction (1), PEI Book Award – Fiction (1), Poetry (6), Prince Edward Island Book Award (2), Prince Edward Island Book Award (Fiction) (2), Prince Edward Island Book Award (Non-Fiction) (1), Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (1), Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) (12), Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction (3), Scholarly Writing (22), The Bookseller's Choice Award (1), Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award (1), Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (1), Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (45), Westminster Books Award for Poetry (1), No Category (1)
Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (4), 2021 (5), 2020 (27), 2019 (38), 2018 (43), 2017 (27), 2016 (33), 2015 (27), 2014 (32), 2013 (32), 2012 (31), 2011 (34), 2010 (32), 2009 (20), 2008 (9), 2007 (17), 2006 (9), 2005 (8), 2004 (8), 2003 (7), 2002 (8), 2001 (6), 2000 (6), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (4), 1995 (5), 1994 (6), 1993 (7), 1992 (6), 1991 (6), 1990 (3), 1989 (3), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1)

Winner 13

WorkCategoryYear
Barrelling Forward: Stories by Eva CrockerAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2018
The Painting by Charis CotterAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2018
Powered by Love: A Grandmothers' Movement to End AIDS in Africa by Joanna HenryAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2018
Peninsula Sinking by David HuebertDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2018
Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919 by Brian Douglas TennysonDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2018
The Long Way Home by John DeMontEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2018
All the Names Between by Julia McCarthyJ.M. Abraham Poetry Award2018
Peninsula Sinking by David HuebertJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2018
Town Is by the Sea by Joanne SchwartzLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2018
All Is Beauty Now by Sarah FaberMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2018
Just Jen: Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis by Jen PowleyMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction2018
The sea was in their blood : the disappearance of the Miss Ally's five-man crew by Quentin CaseyRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2018
The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Pretest by Joan BaxterScholarly Writing2018

Finalist 2

WorkCategoryYear
A Bird on Every Tree by Carol BruneauDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2018
The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil by Lesley ChoyceDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2018

Shortlist 28

WorkCategoryYear
Scars and Other Stories by Don AkerAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2018
Peninsula Sinking by David HuebertAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2018
Polly Maccauley's Finest, Divinest, Wooliest Gift of All: A Yarn for All Ages by Sheree FitchAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2018
The Memory Chair by Susan WhiteAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2018
Gerald Squires by Stan DraglandAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2018
SakKijâjuk : art and craft from Nunatsiavut by Heather IgloliorteAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2018
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn MaynardAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2018
Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge by Pam HallAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2018
The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Pretest by Joan BaxterDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2018
The Endless Battle: The Fall of Hong Kong and Canadian POWs in Imperial Japan by Andy FlanaganDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2018
The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Pretest by Joan BaxterEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2018
Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Pauline DakinEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2018
Everything We've Loved Comes Back to Find Us by Allan CooperJ.M. Abraham Poetry Award2018
I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game by Alison DyerJ.M. Abraham Poetry Award2018
A Bird on Every Tree by Carol BruneauJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2018
The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil by Lesley ChoyceJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2018
Smoot: A Rebellious Shadow by Michelle CuevasLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2018
Atlantic Animal ABC by Angela DoakLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2018
The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes by Bridget CanningMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2018
Crying For the Moon by Mary WalshMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2018
Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Pauline DakinMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction2018
Chasing Smoke: A Wildfire Memoir by Aaron WilliamsMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction2018
The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Pretest by Joan BaxterRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2018
The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster by Ken CuthbertsonRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2018
The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic by Rachel BryantScholarly Writing2018
Steal Away Home: One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the South by Karolyn Smardz FrostScholarly Writing2018
A Bird on Every Tree by Carol BruneauThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2018
Blood Fable by Oisin CurranThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2018

Descriptions

Given out as part of the Atantic Book Awards, the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award is given annually to a book with stong sales which is somehow connected to the Atlantic region of Canada. Members of the Atlantic Booksellers' Association each submit their top three books, with the shortlist being created from the three most nominated titles. The Booksellers then choose a winner from this list. (English, Member-written)
Administered by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize is awarded annually to the best novel or collection of short stories written by an Atlantic Canadian. (English, Member-written)
The Evelyn Richardson Prize was established by WFNS in 1977, shortly after Richardson’s death, to honour the best published non-fiction written by a native or resident Nova Scotian. (English, Member-written)
In 1990, the Nova Scotia Library Association established the Ann Connor Brimer Award for writers residing in Atlantic Canada who have made an outstanding contribution to children's literature.
http://nsla.ns.ca/aboutnsla/brimeraward.html (English, Member-written)
The Dartmouth Book Awards honour Nova Scotian literature and authors. Three prizes are awarded - one for fiction, one for non-fiction and a 1st book award. (English, Member-written)

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