Thirty books — spanning fiction, non-fiction, historical writing, poetry and books for children and young adults — have made the shortlist. Among them are works by Donna Morrissey, Greg Malone, Joan Sullivan, Don McKay and Mike Heffernan.
The Atlantic Book Awards and Festival will run May 9-16 with free events happening in each of the Atlantic provinces. Award winners will be announced at a gala on the last night of the festival in Dartmouth, N.S.
Festival details will be available online at www.atlanticbooksawards.ca.
2013 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS and FESTIVAL SHORTLIST
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Live to Tell
By Lisa Harrington
Publisher: Dancing Cat Books
Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone
By Kathleen Martin
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Enemy Territory
By Sharon E. McKay
Publisher: Annick Press
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Grandma Says
By Cindy Day
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Riptides: New Island Fiction
Edited by Richard Lemm
Published by: Acorn Press
The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini
By Bruce MacNab
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
Sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur
The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil
By Susan Dodd
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818
By Shannon Ryan
Publisher: Flanker Press
The Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki
By Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson,
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
The Village of My Heart’s Mistake: An Acadian Life
By Denise Cormier
Publisher: Encompass Editions
Nova Scotia’s Historic Rivers: The Waterways that Shaped the Province
By Joan Dawson
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History/
Le goût Français au Canada Atlantique 1604-1758: Une Histoire Gastronomique
By Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal VéChambre
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Haunted Girl: Esther Cox and the Great Amherst Mystery
By Laurie Glenn Norris with Barbara Thompson
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN
By Peter Thomas and Nicholas Tracy
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
In Search of R. B. Bennett
By P.B. Waite
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
E.J. Pratt Poetry Award
Gift Horse
By Mark Callanan
Publisher: Signal Editions/Véhicule Press
Paradoxides
By Don McKay
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Whiteout
By George Murray
Publisher: ECW Press
Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke
The Rest is Silence
By Scott Fotheringham
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Anna From Away
By D. R. MacDonald
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Limited
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
By Donna Morrissey
Publisher: Viking Canada
Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
Driftwood Dragons and Other Seaside Poems
By Tyne Brown
Illustrated by Tamara Thiebaux Heikalo (nominee)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
I is for Island: A Prince Edward Island Alphabet
By Hugh MacDonald
Illustrated by Brenda Jones (nominee)
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Toes In My Nose and Other Poems
By Sheree Fitch
Illustrated by Sydney Smith (nominee)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
High-Water Mark
By Nicole Dixon
Publisher: The Porcupine’s Quill
Dirty Bird
By Keir Lowther
Publisher: Tightrope Books
Braco
By Lesleyanne Ryan
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Rogers Communications Award for Non-fiction
The Other Side of Midnight: Taxicab Stories
By Mike Heffernan
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada
By Greg Malone
Publisher: Knopf Canada
In the Field
By Joan Sullivan
Publisher: Breakwater Books
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