Atlantic Book Awards

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
455 Works / 538 Items 30,652 Books 1,398 Reviews ½ 3.9
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 203

WorkCategoryYear
Animal Person: Stories by Alexander MacLeodDartmouth Book Award2023
Jude and Diana by Sharon Robart-JohnsonDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2022
Constant Nobody by Michelle Butler HallettThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2022
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley CreweDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2021
Speechless by Anne SimpsonThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2021
The Difference by Marina EndicottDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2020
Something for Everyone by Lisa MooreAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2019
Catching the Light by Susan SinnottAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2019
Saltwater Mittens from the Island of Newfoundland by Christine LeGrowAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2019
A Circle on the Surface by Carol BruneauDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2019
Where Duty Lies: A New Brunswick Soldier in the Trenches of World War I by John CunninghamDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2019
Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief by Kate InglisEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2019
A Circle on the Surface by Carol BruneauJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2019
Africville by Shauntay GrantLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2019
In the Wake by Nicola DavisonMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2019
Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir by Mark CritchMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction2019
The Blind Mechanic: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Marilyn Davidson ElliottRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2019
There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid R G WaldronScholarly Writing2019
Something for Everyone by Lisa MooreThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2019
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
Willem De Kooning's Paintbrush by Kerry-Lee PowellAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2017
Into the Wasteland by Lesley ChoyceAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2017
Lucy Jarvis : even stones have life by Roslyn RosenfeldAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2017
Advocate by Darren GreerDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2017
Advocate by Darren GreerJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2017
Sky Pig by Jan L CoatesLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2017
Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life by Erin WunkerMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2017
Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Graham ReynoldsRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2017
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control (Communication, Strategy, and Politics) by Alex MarlandScholarly Writing2017
Wild Pieces by Catherine Hogan SaferAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2016
Prison Boy by Sharon E. McKayAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2016
Winter in Tilting : slide hauling in a Newfoundland outport by Robert MellinAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2016
When The Saints by Sarah MianDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2016
Katherine Hughes: A Life and a Journey: From 'Canadian Imperialist' to Irish Republican Activist from Emerald, Prince Edward Island, to Ireland by Padraig O'SiadhailDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2016
When The Saints by Sarah MianJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2016
Frankenstink!: Garbage Gone Bad by Ron LightburnLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2016
When The Saints by Sarah MianMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2016
A Measure of Light by Beth PowningNew Brunswick Book Award for Fiction2016
What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer by Donald J. SavoieNew Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction2016
Aftershock : the Halifax explosion and the persecution of pilot Francis Mackey by Janet MaybeeRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2016
The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada by Geoffrey McCormack (2015-10-01) by Geoffrey McCormackScholarly Writing2016
Crossover by M. Travis LaneWestminster Books Award for Poetry2016
The End of the Line by Sharon E. McKayAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2015
Punishment by Linden MacIntyreDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2015
Perished : the 1914 Newfoundland sealing disaster by Jenny HigginsDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2015
Punishment by Linden MacIntyreJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2015
Music is for Everyone by Jill BarberLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2015
Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome by Megan ColesMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2015
Fire in the Belly: How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business by Gordon PittsRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2015
Nix Minus One by Jill MacLeanAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2014
Ni'n na L'nu The Mi'kmaq of PEI by Jesse FrancisAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2014
Scapegoat, the extraordinary legal proceedings following the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Joel ZemelDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2014
Fallsy Downsies by Stephanie DometDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2014
The August Gales: The Tragic Loss of Fishing Schooners in the North Atlantic 1926 and 1927 by Gerald HallowellDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2014
Fallsy Downsies by Stephanie DometJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2014
Lasso the Wind: Auriélia's Verses and Other Poems by George Elliott ClarkeLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2014
Turn Us Again by Charlotte R. MendelMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2014
Riptides : new island fiction by Richard LemmPEI Book Award – Fiction2014
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Community by Ruth Holmes WhiteheadScholarly Writing2014
Live to Tell by Lisa HarringtonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2013
The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini by Bruce MacNabAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2013
French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History / Le goût français au Canada atlantique 1604-1758 : une histoire gastronomique by Anne Marie Lane JonahDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2013
Anna From Away by D. R. MacDonaldDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2013
In Search of R.B. Bennett by P. B. WaiteDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2013
Paradoxides by Don McKayE.J. Pratt Poetry Award2013
Anna From Away by D. R. MacDonaldJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2013
I is for Island: A Prince Edward Island Alphabet by Hugh MacdonaldLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2013
Dirty Bird by Keir LowtherMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2013
In the field by Joan SullivanRogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction2013
The Ocean Ranger : remaking the promise of oil by Susan DoddScholarly Writing2013
Whirl Away by Russell WangerskyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2013
The Year Mrs. Montague Cried by Susan WhiteAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2012
Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada by Chris BenjaminAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2012
Jack and the manger by Andy JonesBruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award2012
Moonlight Sketches by Gerard CollinsChes Crosbie Barristers Fiction Award2012
The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History by Harry ThurstonDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2012
Necessaries and sufficiencies : planter society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro Townships 1761-1780 by Carol CampbellDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2012
Great Village by Mary Rose DonnellyJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2012
There Were Monkeys In My Kitchen by Sheree FitchLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2012
The Town That Drowned by Riel NasonMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2012
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams RichardsThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2012
The Glory Wind by Valerie SherrardAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2011
Grow organic : a simple guide to Nova Scotia vegetable gardening by Elizabeth PeirceAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2011
The Sentimentalists by Johanna SkibsrudAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2011
Children in the Morning by Anne EmeryDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2011
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada: The Adventurer and Map Maker's formative years by Jerry LockettDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2011
Sailor's Hope: The Life and Times of William Cooper, Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions by Rusty BittermannDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2011
More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right by Laura PennyEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2011
The City Speaks in Drums by Shauntay GrantLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2011
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeodMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2011
Lookout by John StefflerPoetry2011
Run by Patti LarsenPrince Edward Island Book Award2011
Annabel by Kathleen WinterThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2011
The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy by Jill MacLeanAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2010
Birds of Newfoundland: Field Guide by Ian WarkentinAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2010
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyreAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2010
SS Atlantic: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea by Greg CochkanoffD250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction)2010
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyreDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2010
Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and Lives it Ruled by John DeMontEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2010
What Colour is the Ocean? by Gary CollinsLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2010
Lean-to by Tonja KlaassenPoetry2010
Under This Unbroken Sky: A Novel by Shandi MitchellThomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2010
Up Home by Shauntay GrantAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2009
Before Green Gables by Budge WilsonAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2009
Evidence by Ian ColfordDartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2009
Falling by Anne SimpsonDartmouth Book Awards (Fiction)2009
Halifax at War: Searchlights, Squadrons and Submarines 1939-1945 by William D. NaftelDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction, Dartmouth Book Awards (Non-Fiction)2009
Quintet by Douglas Arthur BrownThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2009
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques PoitrasAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2008
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy by Jacques PoitrasAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2008
Witch in the Wind: The True Story of Legendary Bluenose by Marq De VilliersDartmouth Book Award2008
Where White Horses Gallop by Beatrice MacNeilDartmouth Book Award2008
Homing: The Whole Story (from the Inside Out) by Stephanie DometDartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2008
Ragged Islands by Don HannahThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2008
Bruno Bobak: The Full Palette by Herb CurtisAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2007
The Birth House by Ami McKayAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2007
Steam Lion : A Biography of Samuel Cunard by John G. LangleyDartmouth Book Award2007
Scotch River by Linda LittleDartmouth Book Award2007
Steam Lion : A Biography of Samuel Cunard by John G. LangleyDartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2007
Causeway: A Passage from Innocence by Linden MacIntyreEdna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction2007
Causeway: A Passage from Innocence by Linden MacIntyreEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2007
Scotch River by Linda LittleThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2007
Reginald Shepherd, Helen Parsons Shepherd : a life composed by Ronald RompkeyAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2006
Sylvanus Now by Donna MorrisseyAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2006
George and Rue by George Elliott ClarkeDartmouth Book Award2006
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 by Laura M. Mac DonaldDartmouth Book Award2006
A Hard Chance : Sailing into the Heart of Love by Tom GallantDartmouth Book Award2006
Sylvanus Now by Donna MorrisseyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2006
Paintings of Nova Scotia : from the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia by Mora O'NeillAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2005
To Every Thing There Is a Season: A Cape Breton Christmas Story by Alistair MacLeodAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2005
Tarcadia by Jonathan CampbellDartmouth Book Award2005
Historic North End Halifax by Paul A. EricksonDartmouth Book Award2005
Nine Planets by Edward RicheThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2005
Heritage Houses of Nova Scotia by Stephen ArchibaldAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2004
River of the Brokenhearted by David Adams RichardsAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2004
Twenty-Six by Leo McKay Jr.Dartmouth Book Award2004
What Is Invisible: Stories by Beth RyanDartmouth Book Award2004
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. HarveyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2004
The Navigator of New York by Wayne JohnstonAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2003
Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything by Dan FalkDartmouth Book Award2003
Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War by Stephen KimberDartmouth Book Award2003
Butterflies Dance in the Dark by Beatrice MacNeilDartmouth Book Award2003
Downhill Chance by Donna MorrisseyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2003
River Thieves by Michael CrummeyAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2002
Strong at the broken places by David DoucetteDartmouth Book Award2002
The Art of Worship - The Vision and Craft of Contemporary Nova Scotian Artists by Kate LanganDartmouth Book Award2002
Strong Hollow by Linda LittleDartmouth Book Award2002
Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything by Dan FalkDartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2002
River Thieves by Michael CrummeyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2002
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams RichardsAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2001
In the wake of the Alderney: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, 1750-2000 by Harry ChapmanDartmouth Book Award2001
Purple for sky by Carol BruneauDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2001
Purple for sky by Carol BruneauThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2001
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeodAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2000
J.B. McLachlan: A Biography: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners by David FrankDartmouth Book Award2000
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeodDartmouth Book Award - Fiction2000
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeodThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2000
Strange Heaven by Lynn CoadyDartmouth Book Award1999
Too Many to Mourn by James MaharDartmouth Book Award1999
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne JohnstonThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1999
The Old Place: A Natural History of a Country Garden by Merritt GibsonDartmouth Book Award1998
Ill buy you an ox: An Acadian daughters bittersweet passage into womanhood by Betty Boudreau VaughanDartmouth Book Award1998
Awake When All the World Is Asleep: Stories by Shree GhatageThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1998
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonaldDartmouth Book Award1997
Maud's country : landscapes that inspired the art of Maud Lewis by Lance WoolaverDartmouth Book Award1997
Acadia by Alfred SilverThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1997
Like this: Stories by Leo McKay Jr.Dartmouth Book Award1996
A Marriage of Masks by M.T. DohaneyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1996
The Republic of Nothing by Lesley ChoyceDartmouth Book Award1995
Waiting for Time by Bernice MorganThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1995
For those who hunt the wounded down by David Adams RichardsAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1994
Adèle Hugo: La Misérable by Leslie Smith DowDartmouth Book Award1994
The moonlight skater: 9 Cape Breton stories & The dream by Beatrice MacNeilDartmouth Book Award1994
For those who hunt the wounded down by David Adams RichardsThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1994
Citizens Irving : K. C. Irving and His Legacy by John DeMontAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1993
Rare Ambition by Michael HarrisAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1993
Burden of Desire by Robert MacNeilDartmouth Book Award1993
The Acadians of Nova Scotia by Sally RossDartmouth Book Award1993
The Afterlife of George Cartwright by John StefflerThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1993
Wind, whales, and whiskey: A Cape Breton voyage by Silver Donald CameronAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1992
Wind, whales, and whiskey: A Cape Breton voyage by Silver Donald CameronDartmouth Book Award1992
Loyalist Runaway by Donna SmythDartmouth Book Award1992
The Last Tasmanian by Herb CurtisThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1992
Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy by Harry ThurstonAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1991
Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy by Harry ThurstonDartmouth Book Award1991
The Leaving and Other Stories by Budge WilsonDartmouth Book Award1991
The Divine Ryans by Wayne JohnstonThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award1991
Sleeping Dragons All Around by Sheree FitchAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1990
Second Season of Jonas McPherson by Lesley ChoyceDartmouth Book Award1990
Down Home: Notes of a Maritime Son by Harry BruceAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award1989
Down Home: Notes of a Maritime Son by Harry BruceDartmouth Book Award1989

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Shortlist 256

WorkCategoryYear
Dig by Terry DoyleAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2020
Nosy White Woman by Martha WilsonAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2020
EveryBody's Different on EveryBody Street by Sheree FitchAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2020
A World Below by Wesley KingAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2020
I'm Finding My Talk by Rebecca ThomasAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2020
Land beyond the sea by Kevin MajorAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2020
As British as the King: Lunenburg County During the First World War by Gerald HallowellDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2020
Hell and Damnation: A Sinner's Guide to Eternal Torment by Marq De VillersEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2020
Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKayEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2020
Belated Bris of the Brainsick by Lucas CrawfordJ.M. Abraham Poetry Award2020
The Difference by Marina EndicottJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2020
Crow by Amy SpurwayJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2020
Peg Bearskin: A Traditional Newfoundland Tale by Philip DinnLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2020
Small in the City by Sydney SmithLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2020
Dig by Terry DoyleMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2020
Going Dutch by James GregorMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2020
Crow by Amy SpurwayMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2020
Ghosts Within: Journeying Through PTSD by Garry LeechRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2020
Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKayRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2020
The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami by Linden MacIntyreScholarly Writing2020
Truth and conviction : Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi'kmaw quest for justice by L. Jane McMillanScholarly Writing2020
Crocuses Hatch from Snow by Jaime BurnetThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2020
The Innocents by Michael CrummeyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2020
The Waiting Hours by Shandi MitchellThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2020
Tiger, Tiger by Johanna SkibsrudAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2019
Short for Chameleon by Vicki GrantAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2019
Finding Grace by Daphne GreerAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2019
Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Graham ReynoldsAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2019
A Stone for Andrew Dunphy by Ronald CaplanDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2019
The Blind Mechanic: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Marilyn Davidson ElliottDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2019
No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie LoweEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2019
Following the River: Traces of Red River Women by Lorri Neilsen GlennEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2019
No Meeting Without Body by Annick MacAskillJ.M. Abraham Poetry Award2019
Beholden by Lesley CreweJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2019
In the Wake by Nicola DavisonJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2019
Anna at the Art Museum by Hazel HutchinsLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2019
Mi'kmaw Waisisk (Mi'kmaw Animals) by Alan SyliboyLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2019
The Boat People by Sharon BalaMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2019
Catching the Light by Susan SinnottMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction2019
No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie LoweMargaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction2019
First Degree: From Medical School to Murder by Kayla HounsellRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2019
THREADS IN THE ACADIAN FABRIC by Simone Poirier-BuresRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2019
The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% by Lars OsbergScholarly Writing2019
The Tides of Time by Suzanne StewartScholarly Writing2019
The Boat People by Sharon BalaThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2019
Hysteria: A Novel by Elisabeth De MariaffiThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2019
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
Bad Things Happen by Kris BertinAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2017
Four-Letter Words by Chad PelleyAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2017
Flannery by Lisa MooreAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2017
Rain Shadow by Valerie SherrardAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2017
20x20: Twenty Years of Conundrum Press by Andy BrownAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2017
New London : the lost dream : the Quaker settlement on P.E.I.'s North Shore, 1773-1795 by John CousinsDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2017
Conflicted Colony: Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador by Kurt KorneskiDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2017
The Clay Girl by Heather TuckerJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2017
Histoire de galet (French Edition) by Marie CadieuxLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2017
The Snow Knows by Jennifer McGrathLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2017
Turmoil, as Usual: Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the road to the 2015 election by JAMES McLEODMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2017
I'm Not What I Seem: The many stories of Rita MacNeil's life by Charlie RhindressMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2017
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The Vigilant Eye: Policing Canada from 1867 to 9/11 by Greg MarquisScholarly Writing2017
Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life by Erin WunkerScholarly Writing2017
I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are by Carole Glasser LangilleAlistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2016
Delusion Road by Don AkerAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2016
A sea glass journey : ebb and flow by Teri HallAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2016
Racket: New Writing Made in Newfoundland by Lisa MooreAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2016
Théâtre l'Escaouette, 1977-2012 : la petite histoire d'une grande compagnie de théâtre by David LonerganArtiste de l’année en littérature2016
The Story of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist by Susan Chalker BrowneDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2016
Amazing Grace by Lesley CreweJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2016
What Kills Good Men by David HoodJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2016
Mayann's Train Ride by Mayann FrancisLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2016
I'm Drawing a Picture by Doretta GroenendykLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2016
Aftershock : the Halifax explosion and the persecution of pilot Francis Mackey by Janet MaybeeMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2016
Entropic by R. W. GrayNew Brunswick Book Award for Fiction2016
Knife Party at the Hotel Europa by Mark Anthony JarmanNew Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction2016
The Lost Wilderness: Rediscovering W.F. Ganong's New Brunswick by Nicholas GuitardNew Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction2016
Boss Gibson: Lumber King of New Brunswick by David M. SullivanNew Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction2016
Stubborn resistance : New Brunswick Maliseet and Mi'kmaq in defence of their lands by Brian CuthbertsonScholarly Writing2016
Seanchaidh na Coille / The Memory-Keeper of the Forest : Anthology of the Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada by Michael Steven NewtonScholarly Writing2016
Jack, the King of Ashes by Andy JonesAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2015
Flame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor by Janet McNaughtonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2015
Atlantic coastal gardening : growing inspired, resilient plants by the sea by Denise AdamsAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2015
A Sudden Sun by Trudy J. Morgan-ColeAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2015
Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family by Natalie MeisnerDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2015
Winds of Change: Life and Legacy of Calvin W. Ruck by Lindsay RuckDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2015
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket: The Life and Times of John Paris, Jr., Hockey's First Black Professional Coach by John Paris Jr.Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2015
Something of a Peasant Paradise?: Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755 by Gregory M.W. KennedyDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2015
What I Learned About Politics: Inside the Rise-and Collapse-of Nova Scotia's NDP Government by Graham SteeleEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2015
Just Beneath My Skin by Darren GreerJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2015
Grist by Linda LittleJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2015
Wow Wow and Haw Haw by George MurrayLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2015
The Secret Life of Squirrels by Nancy RoseLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2015
Where I Belong: Small Town to Great Big Sea by Alan DoyleMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2015
Vienna Nocturne by Vivien ShotwellMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2015
Bringing Home Animals: Religious Ideology and Mode of Production of the Mistassini Cree Hunters by Adrian TannerScholarly Writing2015
Sweetland by Michael CrummeyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2015
Crimes Against My Brother by David Adams RichardsThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2015
The Power of Harmony by Jan L CoatesAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2014
The Stowaways by Meghan MarentetteAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2014
Bluenose Adventure by Jacqueline HalseyAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2014
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by James HamiltonAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2014
Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 by Brian TennysonDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2014
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Community by Ruth Holmes WhiteheadDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2014
The Ballad of Jacob Peck by Debra KomarDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2014
Blood on a Saint by Anne EmeryJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2014
Waldenstein by Rosalie OsmondJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2014
Pisim Finds Her Miskanow (English and Cree Edition) by William DumasLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2014
Singily Skipping Along by Sheree FitchLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2014
Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World by Janet E CameronMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2014
Tailings of Warren Peace by Stephen LawMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2014
Riptides : new island fiction by Richard LemmPrince Edward Island Book Award2014
Ghost boy of Mackenzie house by Patti LarsenPrince Edward Island Book Award (Fiction)2014
Dirty Bird by Keir LowtherPrince Edward Island Book Award (Fiction)2014
Lionel F. Stevenson: Fifty Years of Photography (1962-2012) by Pan WendtPrince Edward Island Book Award (Non-Fiction)2014
Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick: A Defining Conflict for Canada's Political Culture by David BellScholarly Writing2014
Jeremiah Bancroft at Fort Beauséjour and Grand-Pré by Jonathan FowlerScholarly Writing2014
Kamakwie: A Memoir of Sierra Leone by Kathleen MartinAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2013
Enemy Territory by Sharon E. McKayAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2013
Grandma Says: Weather Lore From Meteorologist Cindy Day by Cindy DayAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2013
Riptides : new island fiction by Richard LemmAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2013
Nova Scotia's historic rivers : The waterways that shaped the province by Joan DawsonDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2013
High-Water Mark by Nicole DixonDartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2013
Haunted Girl: Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery by Laurie Glenn NorrisDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2013
Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon. Anthony Lockwood RN by Peter ThomasDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2013
Gift Horse (Signal Editions) by Mark CallananE.J. Pratt Poetry Award2013
Whiteout: Poems by George MurrayE.J. Pratt Poetry Award2013
The Rest is Silence by Scott FotheringhamJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2013
The Deception of Livvy Higgs by Donna MorrisseyJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2013
Driftwood Dragons: and other seaside poems by Tyne BrownLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2013
Toes in My Nose and Other Poems by Sheree FitchLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2013
High-Water Mark by Nicole DixonMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2013
Braco by Lesleyanne RyanMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2013
Other Side of Midnight, The: Taxi Cab Stories by Mike HeffernanRogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction2013
Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada by Greg MaloneRogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction2013
A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818 by Shannon RyanScholarly Writing2013
The Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki by Trudy SableScholarly Writing2013
Betsy Wickwire's Dirty Secret by Vicki GrantAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2012
Chasing Freedom by Gloria Ann WesleyAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2012
That Forgetful Shore by Trudy J. Morgan-ColeAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2012
Salmon Country: New Brunswick's Great Angling Rivers by Doug UnderhillAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2012
Dragon Seer's Gift by Janet McNaughtonBruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award2012
Necessaries and sufficiencies : planter society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro Townships 1761-1780 by Carol CampbellDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2012
The Lightning Field by Heather JessupDartmouth Book Award, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award2012
The Lookout: A History of Signal Hill by James E. CandowDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2012
Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border by Jacques PoitrasDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2012
Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada by Chris BenjaminEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2012
Hope for Wildlife: True Stories of Animal Rescue by Ray MacLeodEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2012
Diligent River Daughter by Bruce GrahamJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2012
A Possible Madness by Frank MacDonaldJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2012
A Day with You in Paradise by Lennie GallantLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2012
Thank you for my bed by Doretta GroenendykLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2012
The Lightning Field by Heather JessupMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2012
A Description of the Blazing World (Broadview Editions) by Michael MurphyMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2012
New Under the Sun by Kevin MajorNewfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction2012
Double Talk by Patrick WarnerNewfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction2012
Tide Road by Valerie ComptonThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2012
The Lightning Field by Heather JessupThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2012
A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk by Jan CoatesAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2011
The City Speaks in Drums by Shauntay GrantAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2011
Out loud : essays on mental illness, stigma and recovery by Ramona DearingAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2011
Where Old Ghosts Meet by Kate EvansAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2011
Sanctuary: The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka by Deborah CarrAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2011
Pluto's Ghost by Sheree FitchAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2011
Raising Orion by Lesley ChoyceDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2011
Two More Solitudes: A Novel by Sheldon CurrieDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2011
Halifax and the Royal Canadian Navy by John BoileauDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2011
Elizabeth LeFort : Canada's artist in wool = Elizabeth LeFort : l'artiste canadianne de la la laine by Daniel DoucetDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2011
So Few on Earth: A Labrador Métis Woman Remembers by Josie PennyDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2011
Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery by Jon TattrieDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2011
Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle by J.A. WainwrightEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2011
Under the Electric Sky: The Legacy of the Bill Lynch Shows by Christopher A. WalshEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2011
Snow for Christmas by Doretta GroenendykLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2011
One Hockey Night by David WardLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2011
Where Old Ghosts Meet by Kate EvansMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2011
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada: The Adventurer and Map Maker's formative years by Jerry LockettMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2011
I Do Not Think That I Could Love a Human Being by Johanna SkibsrudPoetry2011
Learning to Count by Douglas Burnet SmithPoetry2011
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeodThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2011
The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth PowningThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2011
Five Minutes More by Darlene RyanAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2010
Tumbleweed Skies by Valerie SherrardAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2010
A Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary / Peskotomuhkati Wolastoqewi Latuwewakon by David A. FrancisAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2010
By the Rivers of Brooklyn by Trudy Morgan-ColeAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2010
Galore by Michael CrummeyAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2010
God Is.: My Search for Faith in a Secular World by David Adams RichardsAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2010
I & I by George Elliott ClarkeDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2010
Migration Songs by Anna QuonDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2010
IWK: A Century of Caring for Families by Stephen KimberDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2010
All of Me by Anne MurrayDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2010
Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster by Mike HeffernanDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2010
Mi'sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief's Journey by Mi'sel JoeDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing2010
Our Days Are Numbered: How Mathematics Orders Our Lives by Jason BrownEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2010
Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers by Harry BruceEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award2010
Cape Breton Wonders by Marie MooreLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2010
Johnny and the Gipsy Moth by Deannie Sullivan-fraserLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2010
Harbour View (Quattro Books Novella) by Binnie BrennanMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2010
You Better Watch Out by Greg MaloneMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2010
Asking Questions Indoors and Out by Anne ComptonPoetry2010
Track & trace by Zachariah WellsPoetry2010
Galore by Michael CrummeyThomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2010
Galore by Michael CrummeyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2010
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyreThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2010
Building New Brunswick : an architectural history by John LerouxAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2009
Forget-Me-Not by Maxine TrottierAPMA Best Atlantic Published Book2009
What They Wanted by Donna MorrisseyAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2009
Quintet by Douglas Arthur BrownDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2009
Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792 by Stephen KimberDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2009
Cibou by Susan Young De BiagiDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2009
Rise Again!: The Story of Cape Breton Island: Book 1 by Robert J. MorganDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2009
Terrible, Horrible, Smelly Pirate by Jacqueline HalseyLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2009
The Little Toy Shop by Frances WolfeLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2009
Bone Cage by Catherine BanksMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2009
Silver Salts by Mark BlagraveMargaret and John Savage First Book Award2009
Evidence by Ian ColfordThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2009
The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne JohnstonAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2007
The Friends of Meager Fortune by David Adams RichardsAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2007
View from a Kite by Maureen HullDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2007
Reparations by Stephen KimberDartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2007
Causeway: A Passage from Innocence by Linden MacIntyreDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2007
A Camera on the Banks: Frederick William Wallace and the Fishermen of Nova Scotia by M. Brook TaylorDartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)2007
The Happily Ever Afternoon by Sharon JenningsLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2007
P is for Puffin: A Newfoundland and Labrador Alphabet by Janet SkirvingLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2007
The Hermit of Gully Lake by Joan BaxterAtlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award2006
The Hatbox Letters by Beth PowningThe Bookseller's Choice Award2005
Down to the Dirt by Joel Hynes2004
Graveyard for Dreamers: One Woman's Odyssey in Africa by Joan BaxterEvelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award1995
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean JobbDemocracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean JobbNon-Fiction
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean JobbRobbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award

Nominee 2

No Stage 57

WorkCategoryYear
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley CreweJim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)2021
The Innocents by Michael CrummeyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2019
The Fortunate Brother by Donna MorrisseyThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2017
Entropic by R. W. GrayThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2016
The Hundred Hearts by William KowalskiThomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award2014
The Nine Lives of Travis Keating by Jill MacLeanAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2009
Up Home by Shauntay GrantLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2009
Nightwalker by K. V. JohansenAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2008
Witch in the Wind: The True Story of Legendary Bluenose by Marq De VilliersEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2008
Gracie, the Public Gardens Duck by Judith MeyrickLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration2008
Friendships by Budge WilsonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2007
Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards by Kevin MajorAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2006
Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven by Linda JohnsEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2006
Pomiuk, Prince of the North by Alice WalshAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2005
Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic by Marq De VilliersEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2005
The First Stone by Don AkerAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2004
Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis by Harry ThurstonEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2004
Shoulder the Sky by Anne PerryAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2003
Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War by Stephen KimberEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2003
Where I Live by Eileen SpinelliAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2002
Getting out of town by book & bike by Kent ThompsonEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2002
The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughtonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2001
A Serious Pair of Shoes, An African Journal by Joan BaxterEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2001
The True Meaning of Crumbfest by David WealeAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature2000
Studio Rally: Art and Craft of Nova Scotia by Robin MetcalfeEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction2000
Make or Break Spring by Janet McNaughtonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1999
The Living Beach by Silver Donald CameronEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1999
The House of Wooden Santas by Kevin MajorAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1998
Illustrated History of Nova Scotia by Harry BruceEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1998
To Dance at the Palais Royale by Janet McNaughtonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1997
Sch-World of the Shorebirds by Harry ThurstonEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1997
Of Things Not Seen by Don AkerAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1996
That Shining Place by Simone Poirier-BuresEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1996
Mabel Murple by Sheree FitchAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1995
Landmarks : historic buildings of Nova Scotia by Elizabeth PaceyEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1995
Good Idea Gone Bad by Lesley ChoyceAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1994
Variations on a Planet by Peter BrockEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1994
Oliver's Wars by Budge WilsonAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1993
The Acadians of Nova Scotia by Sally RossEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1993
Eating Between the Lines by Kevin MajorAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1992
Illness & Healing: Images of Cancer by Robert PopeEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1992
Pit Pony by Joyce BarkhouseAnn Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature1991
Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy by Harry ThurstonEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1991
The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax by Judith FingardEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1990
Shades of Justice by Dean JobbEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1989
Dancing on the Shore by Harold HorwoodEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1988
Meeting of Generals by Tony FosterEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1987
The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister by P. B. WaiteEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1986
Mabel Bell: Alexander's silent partner by Lilias TowardEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1985
The loyalist governor: Biography of Sir John Wentworth by Brian CuthbertsonEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1984
Conservative reformer, 1804-1848 by J. Murray BeckEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1983
Sable Island by Bruce ArmstrongEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1982
Like a Weaver's Shuttle: A History of the Halifax-Dartmouth Ferries by Joan M. PayzantEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1980
Double exposure by Alden NowlanEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1979
Lifeline : the story of the Atlantic ferries and coastal boats by Harry BruceEvelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction1978
Ode to Newfoundland by Geoff ButlerLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration
Full Moon Rising by Joanne TaylorLillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration

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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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