Thomas Head Raddall Award

The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. ^[1] The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $30,000, with additional finalists receiving $500 each. ^[2]

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
1991	Wayne Johnston	The Divine Ryans	[3]
1992	Herb Curtis	The Last Tasmanian	[4]
1993	John Steffler	The Afterlife of George Cartwright	[5]
1994	David Adams Richards	For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down	[6]
1995	Bernice Morgan	Waiting for Time	[7]
1996	M. T. Dohaney	A Marriage of Masks	[8]
1997	Alfred Silver	Acadia	[9]
1998	Shree Ghatage	Awake When All the World Is Asleep	[10]
	Edward Riche	Rare Birds	[11]
1999	Wayne Johnston	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams	[12]
	Lynn Coady	Strange Heaven	[13]
	Don Hannah	The Wise and Foolish Virgins
	David Adams Richards	The Bay of Love and Sorrows

2000s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
2000	Alistair MacLeod	No Great Mischief	[14]
	Carmelita McGrath	Stranger Things Have Happened	[15]
	Donna Morrissey	Kit's Law
2001	Carol Bruneau	Purple for Sky	[16]
	Robert Finley	The Accidental Indies	[17]
	David Adams Richards	Mercy Among the Children
2002	Michael Crummey	River Thieves	[18]
	Linda Little	Strong Hollow	[19]
	Anne Simpson	Canterbury Beach
2003	Donna Morrissey	Downhill Chance	[20]
	Christy Ann Conlin	Heave	[21]
	Susan Goyette	Lures
2004	Kenneth J. Harvey	The Town That Forgot How to Breathe	[22]
	Leo McKay Jr.	Twenty-Six	[23]
	David Adams Richards	River of the Brokenhearted
2005	Edward Riche	The Nine Planets	[24]
	Kelly Cooper	Eyehill	[25]
	Michael Winter	The Big Why
2006	Donna Morrissey	Sylvanus Now	[20]
	George Elliott Clarke	George & Rue	[26]
	Lisa Moore	Alligator
2007	Linda Little	Scotch River	[27]
	Wayne Johnston	The Custodian of Paradise	[28]
	Ami McKay	The Birth House
2008	Don Hannah	Ragged Islands	[29]
	Bernice Morgan	Cloud of Bone	[30]
	David Adams Richards	The Lost Highway
2009	Douglas Arthur Brown	Quintet	[31]
	Ian Colford	Evidence
	Sara Tilley	Skin Room

2010s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
2010	Shandi Mitchell	Under This Unbroken Sky	[32]
	Michael Crummey	Galore
	Linden MacIntyre	The Bishop's Man
2011	Kathleen Winter	Annabel	[33]
	Alexander MacLeod	Light Lifting	[34]
	Beth Powning	The Sea Captain's Wife
2012	David Adams Richards	Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul	[1]
	Valerie Compton	The Road	[35]
	Heather Jessup	The Lightning Field
2013	Russell Wangersky	Whirl Away	[36]
	Keir Lowther	Dirty Bird	[37]
	Donna Morrissey	The Deception of Livvy Higgs
2014	William Kowalski	The Hundred Hearts	[38]
	Shashi Bhat	The Family Took Shape	[39]
	Ed Kavanagh	Strays
2015	Darren Greer	Just Beneath My Skin	[40]
	Michael Crummey	Sweetland	[41]
	David Adams Richards	Crimes Against My Brother
2016	R. W. Gray	Entropic	[42]
	Elisabeth de Mariaffi	The Devil You Know	[43]
	Mark Anthony Jarman	Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
2017	Donna Morrissey	The Fortunate Brother	[44]
	Darren Greer	Advocate	[45]
	Ami McKay	The Witches of New York
2018	Oisin Curran	Blood Fable	[46]
	Carol Bruneau	A Bird on Every Tree	[47]
	Sarah Faber	All Is Beauty Now
2019	Lisa Moore	Something for Everyone	[48]
	Sharon Bala	The Boat People	[49]
	Elisabeth de Mariaffi	Hysteria

2020s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
2020	Michael Crummey	The Innocents	[50]
	Jaime Burnet	Crocuses Hatch from Snow	[51]
	Shandi Mitchell	The Waiting Hours
2021	Anne Simpson	Speechless	[52]
	Bridget Canning	Some People's Children	[53]
	Morgan Murray	Dirty Birds
2022	Michelle Butler Hallett	Constant Nobody	[54]
	David Huebert	Chemical Valley	[55]
	Sharon Robart-Johnson	Jude and Diana
2023	K.R. Byggdin	Wonder World	[56]
	Bobbi French	The Good Women of Safe Harbour	[57]
	Lisa Moore	This Is How We Love
2024	Michelle Porter	A Grandmother Begins the Story	[58]
	Violet Browne	This Is the House That Luke Built	[59]
	Charlene Carr	Hold My Girl
	Amanda Peters	The Berry Pickers
	William Ping	Hollow Bamboo
2025
	David Huebert	Oil People	[60]
	Mark Blagrave	Felt	[61]
	Carol Bruneau	Threshold: Stories
	Charlene Carr	We Rip the World Apart
	Susie Taylor	Vigil

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