Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards

The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards were established in 1997 by the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL), Canada. ^[1] The awards are administered in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. ^[1] The categories for the awards alternate on a bi-yearly basis, with fiction and children's/young adult literature being featured one year, and poetry and non-fiction being featured the next. ^[2] The winner of each category receives a $1,500 prize. Two runners-up in each category are also selected and receive a $500 prize. ^[3]

Guidelines

The awards are open to residents of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. For the administration of these awards, WANL defines residents as individuals who meet one of two conditions. The first condition is that they have lived in the province for 12 months immediately prior to the release of publication of their written piece. The second is that they have lived in the province for at least 36 out of the previous 60 months, with no requirement for those months to be consecutive. An award can also be won posthumously if one of the residency conditions were met. To be eligible, a book must be in English and authored by a single individual. Translated books, as well as those that are self-published, are eligible. ^[3]

Winners

Year	Winner (Poetry)	Winner (Non-Fiction)	Winner (Children's/YA)	Winner (Fiction)
1997	Arguments with Gravity by Michael Crummey	Bread and Roses by Dorothy Inglis	N/A	N/A
1998	N/A	N/A	Dream Carvers by Joan Clark	Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh
1999	That Night We Were Ravenous by John Steffler	They Let Down Baskets by Berni Stapleton	N/A	N/A
2000	N/A	N/A	Make or Break Spring by Janet McNaughton	Stranger Things Have Happened by Carmelita McGrath
2001	Thirty-for-Sixty by Al Pittman	A Personal Calligraphy by Mary Pratt and Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843 by Patrick O'Flaherty	N/A	N/A
2002	N/A	N/A	The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton	The Confessions of Nipper Mooney by Ed Kavanagh
2003	Helix: New and Selected Poems by John Steffler	From the Ashes of My Dream by Ed Smith	N/A	N/A
2004	N/A	N/A	An Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughton	In the Chambers of the Sea by Susan Rendell
2005	Merrybegot by Mary Dalton	Aprocrypha: Further Journeys by Stan Dragland	N/A	N/A
2006	N/A	N/A	Brave Jack and the Unicorn by Janet McNaughton	An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
2007	There, there by Patrick Warner	Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador by Gerhard P. Bassler	N/A	N/A
2008	N/A	N/A	The Raintree Rebellion by Janet McNaughton	Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan
2009	Night Work: the Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs	Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself by Russel Wangersky	N/A	N/A
2010	N/A	N/A	Moocher in the Lun by Tom Lawe	Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant
2011	Mole by Patrick Warner	Island Maid: Voices of Outport Women by Rhonda Pelley	N/A	N/A
2012	N/A	N/A	Jack and the Manger by Andy Jones	Moonlight Sketches by Gerard Collins
2013	Paradoxides by Don McKay	In the Field by Joan Sullivan	N/A	N/A
2014	N/A	N/A	Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves by Andy Jones [4]	Caught by Lisa Moore [4]
2015	Escape Velocity by Carmelita McGrath [5]	Creatures of the Rock by Andrew Peacock [5]	N/A	N/A
2016	N/A	N/A	Flame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor by Janet McNaughton [6]	Sweetland by Michael Crummey [6]
2017	Octopus by Patrick Warner [7]	Newfoundland in the First World War by Jenny Higgins [7]	N/A	N/A
2018	N/A	N/A	Full Speed Ahead: Errol's Bell Island Adventure by Sheilah Lukins	We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
2019	I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game by Alison Dyer	Gerald Squires by Stan Dragland	N/A	N/A
2020	N/A	N/A	The Ghost Road by Charis Cotter	The Boat People by Sharon Bala
2021	Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-Gough	A Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland by Andrea Procter	N/A	N/A

References

1. "Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards". Atlantic Book Awards. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
2. "Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards Archives". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
3. "Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards › WANL". wanl.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
4. Baldassi, Julie (2014-05-27). "The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announces 2014 winners". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
5. Robertson, Becky (2015-05-27). "Carmelita McGrath and Andrew Peacock win 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
6. Robertson, Becky (2016-06-07). "Awards: Michael Crummey and Janet McNaughton win 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
7. "And the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards go to..." The Telegram. 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2020-08-03.