The Nova Scotia Book Awards will be presented on Monday, June 1, at Brightwood Golf & Country Club in Dartmouth in a ceremony hosted by Juanita Peters that will also be live-streamed. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.
The ceremony for the Nova Scotia Book Awards take place during the weeklong Atlantic Book Awards Festival, May 28 to June 4. The festival features a range of online and in-person events with the authors shortlisted for the provincial and regional awards, which collectively are worth more than $60,000.
The nominees for the 2026 Nova Scotia Book Awards are:
Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction
Renée Belliveau, A Sense of Things Beyond, Vagrant Press
Robert de la Chevotière, We Were Not Kings, Little A
Danica Roache, Five Seasons of Charlie Francis, Vagrant Press
Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
Jessie Harrold, Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage, Shambhala Publications Inc
Halina St. James, The Golden Daughter, House of Anansi Press
Marjorie Simmins, In Search of Puffins: Stories of Loss, Light, and Flight, Pottersfield Press
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction
Danica Roache, Five Seasons of Charlie Francis, Vagrant Press
Julie K Strong, The Tudor Prophecy, OC Publishing
Brenda Tyedmers, Mrs. Walford, Self-published
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Non-Fiction
Ken Hynes, Service and Sacrifice, Nimbus Publishing
James MacDuff & Mirriam Mweemba, The Illogical Adventure, A Memoir of Love and Fate, Pottersfield Press
Jo-Ann Roberts, Storm the Ballot Box, Nimbus Publishing
Double Nominee! You read that right. Five Seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache has earned two nominations for Nova Scotia Book Awards!
