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. 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 Official website