A look at the 2016 Atlantic Book Awards: Fiction
Celebrating excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing with the Atlantic Book Awards
The Atlantic Book Awards will once again honour the best in Atlantic Canadian-written, -illustrated, and -published books. This year the ceremony will take place April 27 at the venerable Capital Theatre in Moncton, New Brunswick, as part of the Frye Festival, Atlantic Canada’s largest literary event.
Atlantic Books Today has had the pleasure of featuring many of the shortlisted books, as well as their creators. Let’s dive back inside the pages of these award-nominated books, starting with some of the fiction titles.
Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
by Mark Anthony Jarman
Shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction
Wild Pieces
by Catherine Hogan Safer
Shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
Racket: New Writing Made in Newfoundland
Edited by Lisa Moore
Shortlisted for the APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Amazing Grace
by Lesley Crewe
Shortlisted for the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
What Kills Good Men
by David Hood
Shortlisted for the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
When the Saints
by Sarah Mian
Shortlisted for the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
A Stroke in Time
by Gerard Doran
Shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
A Measure of Light
by Beth Powning
Shortlisted for the New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction
See the full program of Atlantic Book Awards events and list of nominated books.
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