The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards were established in 1997 by the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador (WANL), Canada. The awards are administered in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. 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. The winner of each category receives a $1,500 prize. Two runners-up in each category are also selected and receive a $500 prize.
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.
Winners +YearWinner (Poetry)Winner (Non-Fiction)Winner (Children's/YA)Winner (Fiction)1997Arguments with Gravity by Michael CrummeyBread and Roses by Dorothy InglisN/AN/A1998N/AN/ADream Carvers by Joan ClarkGaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh1999That Night We Were Ravenous by John StefflerThey Let Down Baskets by Berni StapletonN/AN/A2000N/AN/AMake or Break Spring by Janet McNaughtonStranger Things Have Happened by Carmelita McGrath2001Thirty-for-Sixty by Al PittmanA Personal Calligraphy by Mary Pratt and Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843 by Patrick O'FlahertyN/AN/A2002N/AN/AThe Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton The Confessions of Nipper Mooney by Ed Kavanagh2003Helix: New and Selected Poems by John StefflerFrom the Ashes of My Dream by Ed SmithN/AN/A2004N/AN/AAn Earthly Knight by Janet McNaughtonIn the Chambers of the Sea by Susan Rendell2005Merrybegot by Mary DaltonAprocrypha: Further Journeys by Stan DraglandN/AN/A2006N/AN/ABrave Jack and the Unicorn by Janet McNaughtonAn Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark2007There, there by Patrick WarnerVikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador by Gerhard P. BasslerN/AN/A2008N/AN/AThe Raintree Rebellion by Janet McNaughtonCloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan2009Night Work: the Sawchuk Poems by Randall MaggsBurning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself by Russel WangerskyN/AN/A2010N/AN/AMoocher in the Lun by Tom LaweCome, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant2011Mole by Patrick WarnerIsland Maid: Voices of Outport Women by Rhonda PelleyN/AN/A2012N/AN/AJack and the Manger by Andy JonesMoonlight Sketches by Gerard Collins2013Paradoxides by Don McKayIn the Field by Joan SullivanN/AN/A2014N/AN/AJack and Mary in the Land of Thieves by Andy JonesCaught by Lisa Moore2015Escape Velocity by Carmelita McGrathCreatures of the Rock by Andrew PeacockN/AN/A2016N/AN/AFlame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor by Janet McNaughtonSweetland by Michael Crummey2017Octopus by Patrick WarnerNewfoundland in the First World War by Jenny HigginsN/AN/A2018N/AN/AFull Speed Ahead: Errol's Bell Island Adventure by Sheilah LukinsWe'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes2019I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game by Alison DyerGerald Squires by Stan DraglandN/AN/A2020N/AN/AThe Ghost Road by Charis CotterThe Boat People by Sharon Bala2021Crow Gulch by Douglas Walbourne-GoughA Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland by Andrea ProcterN/AN/A
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