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

== External links ==
Official website