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Last night the Atlantic Book Awards announced this year’s short list at the Halifax Central Library.
Jon Tattrie led a discussion with Valerie Compton, Alexander MacLeod and Ami MacKay called “Writers in Conversation”. Shandi Mitchell’s Dalhousie University Creative Writing students opened the event with readings of their best short fiction from their final senior workshop.
Congratulations to all the shortlisted publishers and authors!
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Author: Jenny Higgins
Publisher: Boulder Publications
Something of a Pleasant Paradise: Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755
Author: Gregory M. W. Kennedy
Publisher : McGill-Queens University Press
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket: The Life and Times of John Paris, Jr., Hockey’s First Black Professional Coach
Author: John Paris Jr. (with Robert Ashe)
Publisher: Formac Lorimer Books
Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction
Fire in the Belly: How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business
Author: Gordon Pitts
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family
Author: Natalie Meisner
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
Winds of Change: The Life and Legacy of Calvin W. Ruck
Author: Lindsay Ruck
Publisher: Pottersfield Press
Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction
Punishment
Author: Linden MacIntyre
Publisher: Random House Canada
Just Beneath My Skin
Author: Darren Greer
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Grist
Author: Linda Little
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Vienna Nocturne
Author: Vivien Shotwell
Publisher: Bond Street Books
Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome
Author: Megan Gail Coles
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Where I Belong
Author: Alan Doyle
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Scholarly Writing Award
Equal as Citizens: The Tumultuous and Troubled Idea of a Great Canadian Idea
Author: Richard Starr
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited
Those Splendid Girls
Author: Katherine Dewar
Publisher: Island Studies Press
Bringing Home Animals: Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec (2nd edition)
Author: Adrian Tanner
Publisher: ISER Books (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor
Author: Janet McNaughton
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
The End of the Line
Author: Sharon E. McKay
Publisher: Annick Press
Jack, the King of Ashes
Author: Andy Jones
Publisher: Running the Goat Books and Broadsides
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
The Sudden Sun
Author: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Atlantic Coastal Gardening: Growing Inspired, Resilient Plants
Author: Denise Adams
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Island Kitchen: An Ode to Newfoundland
Author: Chef Mark McCrowe and Sasha Okshevsky
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
Music is for Everyone
Illustrator: Sydney Smith
Author: Jill Barber
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Wow Wow and Haw Haw
Illustrator: Michael Pittman
Author: George Murray
Publisher: Breakwater Books
The Secret Life of Squirrels
Illustrator: Nancy Rose
Author: Nancy Rose
Publisher: Penguin Canada
The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards will be announced May 14th at the 2015 Atlantic Book Awards Gala. Check back here for more details.
