title: Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
text: # 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). 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
  