Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
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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).[1] The flagship event is the awards ceremony itself at which 13 different literary awards are presented.
Awards
[edit]- 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
References
[edit]- ^ "Atlantic Book Awards and Festival set for April". telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com. February 13, 2010. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
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