Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
- Meghan Rose Allen, The Summer the School Burned Down (Indie-published)
- Bridget Canning, No One Knows About Us (Breakwater Books)
- Elaine McCluskey, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes (Goose Lane Editions)
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature
- Nicola Davison, Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing)
- Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something (Penguin Random House)
- Jo Treggiari, Heartbreak Homes (Nimbus Publishing)
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
- Goose Lane Editions with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Wabanaki Modern / Wabanaki Kiskukewey / Wabanaki Moderne by Emma Hassencahl-Perley & John Leroux
- Flanker Press, Operation Masonic by Helen C. Escott
- Boulder Books, Food, Culture, Place: Stories, Traditions, and Recipes of Newfoundland by Lori McCarthy and Marsha Tulk
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
- Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis, The Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations (UBC Press)
- Mark David Turner, Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget / On Inuit Cinema (Memorial University Press)
- Elizabeth Yeoman, Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds (University of Manitoba Press)
J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award
- Luke Hathaway, The Affirmations (Biblioasis)
- Nanci Lee, Hsin (Brick Books)
- Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press)
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
- K. R. Byggdin, Wonder World (Enfield & Wizenty)
- Bobbi French, The Good Women of Safe Harbour (HarperCollins)
- Lisa Moore, This Is How We Love (House of Anansi)
2023 Nova Scotia Book Awards Shortlist
Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction
- Bobbi French, The Good Women of Safe Harbour (HarperCollins)
- Alexander MacLeod, Animal Person (McClelland & Stewart)
- Jo Treggiari, Heartbreak Homes (Nimbus Publishing)
Evelyn Richardson Nonfiction Award
- Kate Beaton, Ducks (Drawn & Quarterly)
- El Jones, Abolitionist Intimacies (Fernwood Publishing)
- Kim Pittaway & Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #MeToo Movement (Penguin Random House)
George Borden Writing for Change Award
- El Jones, Abolitionist Intimacies (Fernwood Publishing)
- Elder Sister Dorothy Moore, A Journey of Love and Hope (Nimbus Publishing)
- Wanda Thomas Bernard, A Child of East Preston (Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute)
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Nonfiction
- Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Martha Paynter, Abolition to Abortion (Fernwood Publishing)
- Mandy Rennehan, The Blue Collar CEO (HarperCollins)
Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award
- Sylvia D. Hamilton, Tender (Gaspereau Press)
- Sue Goyette, Monoculture (Gaspereau Press)
- Nanci Lee, Hsin (Brick Books)