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

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.

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