Atlantic Book Awards & Festival

The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is an annual event celebrating Atlantic Canadian writing and book illustration. Free events take place across the four Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). ^[1] The flagship event is the awards ceremony itself at which 13 different literary awards are presented. ^[2]

Awards

• Thomas Head Raddall Award - fiction
• J. M. Abraham Poetry Award - poetry
• Ann Connor Brimer Award - children's literature
• Alistair MacLeod Prize - short fiction
• Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
• Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
• Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
• Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction
• Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award - fiction
• Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award - non-fiction
• Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
• Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction
• Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Non-Fiction

See also

• Literature of Nova Scotia

References

1. "Atlantic Book Awards and Festival set for April". telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com. February 13, 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
2. [PNI Atlantic News]. "Atlantic Book Awards celebrate local authors and publishers". PNI Atlantic News . Postmedia Network. Archived from the original on 26 June 2025. Retrieved 26 June 2025.

Further reading

• [CBC Books] (9 June 2025). "Charlene Carr and David Huebert among winners of 2025 Nova Scotia and Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 24 June 2025. Retrieved 26 June 2025.

External links

• Official website
• Atlantic Book Awards Winners at 49th Shelf, Association of Canadian Publishers