The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is an annual event celebrating Atlantic Canadian

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. Free events take place across the four Atlantic provinces (

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event is the awards ceremony itself at which 13 different literary awards are presented.

Awards

Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

- fiction * J. M. Abraham Poetry Award - poetry *

Ann Connor Brimer Award The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature is a $5,000 annual award given to an Atlantic Canadian writer deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to literature for young people. Starting in 2016, the prize alter ...

- 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

External links

Official website
* Literary festivals in Canada Awards established in 2009 {{lit-festival-stub Culture of Atlantic Canada Literary festivals in New Brunswick Literary festivals in Newfoundland and Labrador Literary festivals in Nova Scotia Literary festivals in Prince Edward Island