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Atlantic Book Awards – Part 1 2016 nominees

“to promote and acknowledge excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing through an annual awards ceremony and related events.”

Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction
Knife Party at the Hotel Europa by Mark Anthony Jarman
I Am What I Am Because You Are What You Are by Carole Glasser Langille
Wild Pieces by Catherine Hogan Safer



Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Delusion Road by Don Aker
Prison Boy by Sharon E. McKay
Rain Shadow by Valerie Sherrard

APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Racket: new writing made in Newfoundland by Lisa Moore ed.
A Sea Glass Journey: ebb and flow by Teri Hall
Winter in Tilting: slide Hauling in a Newfoundland Outport by Robert Mellin

Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Publishing
Stubborn Resistance: New Brunswick Maliseet and Mi’kmaq in defence of their lands by Brian Cuthbertson
Seanchaidh n Coille / Memory Keeper of the Forest: anthology of Scottish Gaelic literature of Canada by Michael Newton
The Servant State: overseeing capital accumulation in Canada by Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman

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