Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
Some Days Run Long by Bill Conall (Boularderie Island Press)
Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore (House of Anansi Press)
Tiger, Tiger by Johanna Skibsrud (Hamish Hamilton)
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Short for Chameleon by Vicki Grant (HarperCollins Publishers)
Finding Grace by Daphne Greer (Nimbus Publishing)
Catching the Light by Susan Sinnott (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)
Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic-Published Book Award Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Viola Desmond: Her Life and Times by Graham Reynolds and Wanda Robson (Roseway Publishing)
Saltwater Mittens from the Island of Newfoundland: More than 20 heritage designs to knit by Christine LeGrow & Shirley A. Scott (Boulder Books)
Hope Blooms: Plant a Seed, Harvest a Dream by Mamadou Wade and the youth of Hope Blooms (Nimbus Publishing)
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing
The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1% by Lars Osberg (Lorimer)
The Tides of Time: A Nova Scotia Book of Seasons by Suzanne Stewart (Pottersfield Press)
There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities by Ingrid R. G. Waldron (Fernwood Publishing)
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
A Stone for Andrew Dunphy by Ronald Caplan (Breton Books)
Where Duty Lies: A New Brunswick Soldier in the Trenches of World War 1 by John Cunningham (Pottersfield Press)
The Blind Mechanic: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Marilyn Davidson Elliott(Nimbus Publishing)
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief by Kate Inglis (Shambhala Publications)
No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe (Coach House Books)
Following the River: Traces of Red River Women by Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.)
Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke LLP
A Circle on the Surface by Carol Bruneau (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)
Beholden by Lesley Crewe (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)
In the Wake by Nicola Davison (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)
J.M. Abraham Poetry Award
Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots by Basma Kavanagh (Frontenac House)
No Meeting Without Body by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press)
This Kind of Thinking Does No Good by Alison Smith (Gaspereau Press)
Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration
Illustrator: Eva Campbell (nominee) for Africville
Written by Shauntay Grant (Groundwood Books)
Illustrator: Lil Crump (nominee) for Anna at the Art Museum
Written by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert (Annick Press)
Illustrator: Alan Syliboy (nominee) for Mi’kmaw Animals/Mi’kmaw Waisisk
Written by Alan Syliboy (Nimbus Publishing)
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction sponsored by Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, Sensor Technology Ltd., Heritage House Law Office, I Love Renovations and Simple Sage Solutions
Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir by Mark Critch (Viking Canada)
No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs by Lezlie Lowe (Coach House Books)
Louisbourg or Bust: A Surfer’s Wild Ride Down Nova Scotia’s Drowned Coast by RC Shaw (Pottersfield Press)
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction sponsored by Royden Trainor, Weed Man Maritimes and the family of John and Margaret Savage
The Boat People by Sharon Bala (McClelland & Stewart)
In The Wake by Nicola Davison (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)
Catching the Light by Susan Sinnott (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)
Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction), presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
The Blind Mechanic: The Amazing Story of Eric Davidson, Survivor of the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Marilyn Davidson Elliott (Nimbus Publishing)
First Degree: From Medical School to Murder by Kayla Hounsell(Nimbus Publishing)
Threads in the Acadian Fabric: Nine Generations of an Acadian Family by Simone Poirier-Bures (Pottersfield Press)
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
The Boat People by Sharon Bala (McClelland & Stewart)
Hysteria by Elisabeth de Mariaffi (HarperCollins Publishers)
Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore (House of Anansi Press)