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). 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

References

External links

Official website

Literary festivals in Canada

Awards established in 2009

Arts festivals in New Brunswick

Arts festivals in Newfoundland and Labrador

Arts festivals in Nova Scotia

Arts festivals in Prince Edward Island

Culture of Atlantic Canada

Atlantic Book Awards & Festival