1. Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
Nosy White Woman by Martha Wilson (Biblioasis)
2. Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Everybody’s Different on EveryBody Street, by Sheree Fitch (Nimbus Publishing)
3. Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing
Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mik’kmaw Quest for Justice by L. Jane McMillan (UBC Press)
4. Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Breakwater Books for Almost Feral by Gemma Hickey
5. Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers: Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945 by Andrew Theobald (Goose Lane Editions)
6. Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKay (Knopf Canada)
7. Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by BoyneClarke LLP
The Difference, by Marina Endicott (Knopf Canada)
8. J.M. Abraham Poetry Award
Belated Bris of the Brainsick by Lucas Crawford (Nightwood Editions)
9. Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
Sydney Smith for Small in the City, written by Sydney Smith (Groundwood Books)
10. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (fiction), Sponsored by the family of John and Margaret Savage and Royden Trainor
Crow by Amy Spurway (Goose Lane Editions)
11. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – (Non-Fiction) sponsored by Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, Weed Man Maritimes, Heritage House Law Office, I Love Renovations and Simple Sage Solutions
Almost Feral by Gemma Hickey, (Breakwater Books)
12. The Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction), Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKay (Knopf Canada)
13. Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
The Innocents by Michael Crummey (Doubleday Canada)