
I AM THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE WHEN THE SAINTS IS NOMINATED FOR THE JIM CONNORS DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD AND THE MARGARET AND JOHN SAVAGE FIRST BOOK AWARD.
Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
By Mark Anthony Jarman
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are
By Carole Glasser Langille
Publisher: Gaspereau Press Ltd.
Wild Pieces
By Catherine Hogan Safer
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Delusion Road
By Don Aker
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Prison Boy
By Sharon E. McKay
Publisher: Annick Press
Rain Shadow
By Valerie Sherrard
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Breakwater Books for
Racket: New Writing Made in Newfoundland
By: Lisa Moore, Editor
Nimbus Publishing for
A Seaglass Journey: Ebb and Flow
By: Teri Hall
Pedlar Press for
Winter in Tilting: Slide Hauling in a Newfoundland Outport
By Robert Mellin
Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick (AAAPNB) – Les Éloizes -Finalistes – Artiste de l’année en littérature
Roman – Car la nuit est longue
By/par Sophie Bérubé
Publisher: Éditions Prise de parole
Monographie – Théâtre l’Escaouette, 1977-2012
By/par David Lonergan
Publisher: Éditions David
Recueil de poésie – Les anodins
By/par Gabriel Robichaud
Publisher: Éditions Perce-Neige
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing
Stubborn Resistance: New Brunswick Maliseet and Mi’kmaq in defence of their lands
By Brian Cuthbertson
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory Keeper of the Forest: Anthology of Scottish Gaelic Literature of Canada
By Michael Newton
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
The Servant State: Overseeing Capital Accumulation in Canada
By Geoffrey McCormack & Thom Workman
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction), Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
The Times of African Nova Scotians, Vol. II
By Tony Colaiacovo
Publisher: Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
By Dean Jobb
Publisher: Harper Avenue
Aftershock: The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey
By Janet Maybee
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
The Story of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist
By Susan Chalker Browne
Publisher: Flanker Press
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
By Dean Jobb
Publisher: Harper Avenue
Katherine Hughes: A Life and a Journey
By Pádraig Ó Siadhail
Publisher: Penumbra Publishing
Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke LLP
Amazing Grace
By Lesley Crewe
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
What Kills Good Men
By David Hood
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
When the Saints
By Sarah Mian
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing
Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
Illustrator: Doretta Groenendyk (nominee)
I’m Drawing a Picture
(Written by Doretta Groenendyk)
Publisher: Acorn Press
Illustrator: Ron Lightburn (nominee)
Frankenstink!: Garbage Gone Bad
(Written by Ron Lightburn)
Publisher: Tundra Books
Illustrator: Tamara Thiebaux-Heikalo (nominee)
Mayann’s Train Ride
(Written by The Honourable Mayann Francis)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, sponsored by Collins Barrow LLP, Weed Man Maritimes, and the family of John and Margaret Savage
A Stroke in Time
By Gerard Doran
Publisher: Flanker Press
Aftershock: The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey
By Janet Maybee
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
When the Saints
By Sarah Mian
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing
New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction sponsored by sponsored by Mrs. Dunster’s and Fog Lit Festival
Entropic
By R.W. Gray
Publisher: NeWest Press
Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
By Mark Anthony Jarman
Goose Lane Editions
A Measure of Light
By Beth Powning
Publisher: Knopf
Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-fiction sponsored by the Brennan family
The Lost Wilderness: Rediscovering W.F. Ganong’s New Brunswick
By Nicholas Guitard
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
What is Government Good At: A Canadian Answer
By Donald Savoie
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Boss Gibson: Lumber King of New Brunswick
By David Sullivan
Publisher: Self-published
Westminster Books Award for Poetry
Not Even Laughter
By Phillip Crymble
Publisher: Salmon Poetry
Crossover
Travis Lane
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Electric Affinities
By Michael Pacey
Publisher: Signature Editions