ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS NOMINEES
Atlantic Book Awards will be handed out Thursday. Here’s a list of the nominees:
• Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
“Boy with a Problem” by Chris Benjamin (Pottersfield Press)
“Winter Road” by Wayne Curtis (Pottersfield Press) “The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm” by Julie Curwin (Boularderie Island Press)
• Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature “Annaka” by Andre Fenton (Nimbus Publishing) “Keep This to Yourself” by Tom Ryan (Albert Whitman & Company)
“The Grey Sisters” by Jo Treggiari (Penguin Teen)
• Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
“At the Ocean’s Edge: A History of Nova Scotia to Confederation” by Margaret Conrad (University of Toronto Press)
“The Miramichi Fire: A History by Alan MacEachern” (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
“A Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland” by Andrea Procter (ISER Books)
• Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
“The Forager’s Dinner: Finding, harvesting, and preparing Newfoundland and Labrador’s edible plants” by Shawn Dawson (Boulder Books)
“Dirty Birds” by Morgan Murray (Breakwater Books Ltd.)
“Black Matters” by Afua Cooper, with photographs by Wilfried Raussert (Roseway Publishing)
• Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
“Silver Hair and Golden Voice: Austin Willis, From Halifax to Hollywood” by Ernest J. Dick (Nimbus Publishing)
“Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion” by Tyler LeBlanc (Goose Lane Editions) “Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboys” by Jennifer Thonhill-Verma (Nimbus Publishing) • Evelyn Richardson NonFiction Award
“Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes” by Silver Donald Cameron (Viking Canada) “Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion” by Tyler LeBlanc (Goose Lane Editions) “Before the Parade: A History of Halifax’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Communities, 1972-1984” by Rebecca Rose (Nimbus Publishing)
• Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) “Good Mothers Don’t” by Laura Best (Nimbus Publishing)
“The Spoon Stealer” by Lesley Crewe (Nimbus Publishing)
“The Silence of the Vessel: A Novel” by Brenda MacLennan-Dunphy (Pottersfield Press)
• J. M. Abraham Poetry Award “Black Matters” by Afua Cooper, with photographs by Wilfried Raussert (Roseway Publishing) “Humanimus” by David Huebert (Palimpsest Press) “Waking Ground” by shalan joudry (Gaspereau Press)
• Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
Byron Eggenschwiler, illustrator for “The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt,” written by Riel Nason (Tundra Books)
Sydney Smith, illustrator for “I Talk Like a River,” written by Jordan Scott (Neal Porter Books)
Lauren Soloy, illustrator, for “When Emily Was Small,” written by Lauren Soloy (Tundra Books)
• Margaret and John Savage First Book Award — Fiction
“The Appendage Formerly Known as Your Left Arm” by Julie Curwin (Boularderie Island Press)
“Dirty Birds” by Morgan Murray (Breakwater Books Ltd.) “Aftershock: A Novel” by Alison Taylor (HarperCollins)
• Margaret and John Savage First Book Award — Non-Fiction
“Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion” by Tyler LeBlanc (Goose Lane Editions) “The Dome Chronicles” by Garry Leeson (Nevermore Press) “Capturing Crime” by Carol Taylor (New World Publishing)
• Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award
“Year of the Metal Rabbit” by Tammy Armstrong (Gaspereau Press) “Burden” by Douglas Burnet Smith (University of Regina Press)
“Waking Ground” by shalan joudry (Gaspereau Press) • Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)
“Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes” by Silver Donald Cameron (Viking Canada)