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 and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). The flagship event is the awards ceremony itself at which 13 different literary awards are presented.
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
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Further reading
External links
Atlantic Book Awards Winners at 49th Shelf, Association of Canadian Publishers