Atlantic Books Awards Shortlist

The shortlist for the 2009 Atlantic Book Awards has been announced. The Atlantic Book Awards Society has the mandate"to promote and acknowledge excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing through an annual awards ceremony and related events."

The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Wednesday April 15th, hosted by Stephanie Domet and Bill Carr.

In the meantime, enjoy these fine Atlantic Canadian authors.

Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Rise Again! The Story of Cape Breton Island, Book One, by Robert J. Morgan
Halifax At War: Searchlights, Squadrons and Submarines 1939-1945, by William D. Naftel
Cibou, by Susan Young de Biagi

Atlantic Independent Bookseller's Choice Award
Building New Brunswick: An Architectural History, by John Leroux
What They Wanted, by Donna Morrissey
Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson

Best Atlantic Published Book Award
Building New Brunswick: An Architectural History, by John Leroux
Forget-Me-Not, by Maxine Trottier
Up Home, by Shauntay Grant

Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction
Quintet, by Douglas Arthur Brown
Falling, by Anne Simpson
Cibou, by Susan Young de Biagi

Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction
Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792, by Stephen Kimber
Rise Again! The Story of Cape Breton Island, Book One, by Robert J. Morgan
Halifax At War: Searchlights, Squadrons and Submarines 1939-1945, by William D. Naftel

Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
The Terrible, Horrible, Smelly Pirate, by Carrie Muller and Jacqueline Halsey, illustrated by Eric Orchard
Up Home, by Shauntay Grant, illustrated by Susan Tooke
The Little Toy Shop, by Frances Wolfe

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Bone Cage, by Catherine Banks
Silver Salts, by Mark Blagrave
Evidence, by Ian Colford