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)

Source: http://www.thereader.ca/2008/03/atlantic-book-awards-2012-nominations.html