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
- 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