Atlantic Book Awards 2012 nominations

Our favourite book award announcement of the year! The shortlist for the nine awards that make up the Atlantic Book Awards were announced on Wednesday night at Neptune Theatre. This year's festival runs from May 10 to the 17th culminating with the winners being announced in St. John's on May 17th at the historic LSPU Hall.

In the meantime, enjoy!

Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (fiction)

Great Village (M)
by Mary Rose Donnelly

Diligent River Daughter (M)
by Bruce Graham

A Possible Madness (M)
by Frank Macdonald













Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

The Lightning Field (M)
by Heather Jessup

A Description of the Blazing World (M)
by Michael Murphy

The Town that Drowned (M)
by Riel Nason













Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Fiction

Moonlight Sketches (M)
by Gerard Collins

New Under the Sun (M)
by Kevin Major

double talk (M)
by Patrick Warner













APMA best Atlantic Published Book Award

Eco-Innovators: sustainability in Atlantic Canada (M)
by Chris Benjamin

Salmon Country: New Brunswick's great angling rivers (M)
by Doug Underhill

That Forgetful Shore (M)
by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole













Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction in the Memory of Robbie Robertson

The Atlantic Coast: a natural history (M)
by Harry Thurston

Necessaries and Sufficiencies: planter society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro 1761-1780 (M)
by Carol Campbell and James F. Smith

Heroes of the Acadian Resistance (M)
by Dianne Marshall













Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing

Necessaries and Sufficiencies: planter society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro 1761-1780 (M)
by Carol Campbell and James F. Smith

The Lookout: a history of Signal Hill (M)
by James E. Candow

Imaginary Line: life on an unfinished border (M)
by Jacques Poitras













Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature

Betsy Wickwire's Dirty Secret (M)
by Vicki Grant

Chasing Freedom (M)
by Gloria Ann Wesley

The Year Mrs. Montague Cried (M)
by Susan White













The Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award

Jack and the Manger (M)
by Andy Jones

Edge of Time (M)
by Susan M. MacDonald

Dragon Seer's Gift (M)
by Janet McNaughton













Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

Thank You For My Bed (M)
by Doretta Groenendyk

A Day With You in Paradise (M)
by Lennie Gallant (Patsy MacKinnon illustrator)

Monkeys in my Kitchen (M)
by Sheree Fitch (Sydney Smith illustrator)