04 Apr

2014 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist

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Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature

Nix Minus One
By Jill MacLean
Publisher: Pajama Press

The Power of Harmony
By Jan L. Coates
Publisher: Red Deer Press

The Stowaways
By Meghan Marentette
Publisher: Pajama Press

APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Sponsored by Friesens Corporation

Acorn Press for
Ni’n na L’Nu:  The Mi’kmaq of Prince Edward Island
By Jesse Francis and A.J.B. Johnston

Formac Publishing for
Bluenose Adventure
By Jacqueline Halsey, illus. by Eric Orchard

Goose Lane Editions for
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
By Terry Graff, Editor

Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing Sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur

Black Loyalists:  Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Community
By Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Diaries of the Acadian Deportations, No. 1: Jeremiah Bancroft at Fort Beauséjour and Grand-Pré
By Jonathan Fowler and Earle Lockerby
Publisher: Gaspereau Press

Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick:  A defining conflict for Canada’s political culture
By David Bell
Publisher: Formac Publishing

Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson, Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth

Black Loyalists:  Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Community
By Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Merry Hell:  The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment)
By Captain Robert N. Clements MC, edited by Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Scapegoat:  the extraordinary legal proceedings following the 1917 Halifax Explosion
By Joel Zemel
Publisher: SVP Productions

Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing

Black Loyalists:  Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia’s First Free Black Communities
By Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

The August Gales:  The Tragic Loss of Fishing Schooners in the North Atlantic, 1926 and 1927
By Gerald Hallowell
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

The Ballad of Jacob Peck
By Debra Komar
Publisher:  Goose Lane Editions

Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke

Blood on a Saint
By Anne Emery
Publisher: ECW Press

Fallsy Downsies
By Stephanie Domet
Publisher: Invisible Publishing

Waldenstein
By Rosalie Osmond
Publisher: Seraphim Editions

Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration

Illustrator: Susan Tooke
Lasso the Wind:  Aurélia’s Verses and Other Poems (By George Elliott Clarke)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Illustrator: Leonard Paul
Pisim Finds her Miskanow (By William Dumas)
Publisher: Portage & Main Press

Illustrator: Deanne Fitzpatrick
Singily Skipping Along (By Sheree Fitch)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, sponsored by Collins Barrow, Weed Man, the Savage Family and Heritage House Law Office

Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World
By Janet E. Cameron
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland

Tailings of Warren Peace
By Stephen Law
Publisher: Roseway Publishing

Turn Us Again
By Charlotte R. Mendel
Publisher: Roseway Publishing

Prince Edward Island Book Award (Fiction)

Dirty Bird
By Keir Lowther
Publisher: Tightrope Books

Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House
By Patti Larsen
Publisher:  Acorn Press

RipTides:  New Island Fiction
Edited by Richard Lemm
Publisher:  Acorn Press

Prince Edward Island Book Award (Non-Fiction)

Lionel F. Stevenson:  Fifty Years of Photographs/Cinquante ans de photographie (1962-2012)
By Pan Wendt
Publisher: Acorn Press

The Master’s Wife:  The Book and the Place
Edited by John Flood
Publisher:  Penumbra Press

Ni’n na L’Nu:  The Mi’kmaq of Prince Edward Island
By Jesse Francis and A.J.B. Johnston
Publisher:  Acorn Press

Prince Edward Island Book Award (Poetry)

A Gathering of TWIGS by the TWIG Collective, TWiG Publications

Here for the Music Poems by Laurie Brinklow, Acorn Press

Variations on Blue by Pam F. Martin,  Acorn Press