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