1. Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Live to Tell, by Lisa Harrington, published by Dancing Cat Books
2. Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini by Bruce MacNab,
published by Goose Lane Editions
3. Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing,
Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing (new award, inaugural winner)
The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil by Susan Dodd, published by Fernwood Publishing
4. Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History/
Le goût français au Canada atlantique 1604-1758 : une histoire gastronomique
by Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal Véchambre, published by Cape Breton University Press
5. Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
In Search of R.B. Bennett, by P.B. Waite, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press
6. E.J. Pratt Poetry Award (one of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
Presented by the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
Paradoxides by Don McKay, published by McClelland & Stewart
7. Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke
Anna from Away, by D.R. MacDonald, published by HarperCollins Canada Ltd.
8. Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
I is for Island: A Prince Edward Island Alphabet, illustrated by Brenda Jones, written by Hugh MacDonald, published by Sleeping Bear Press
9. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Dirty Bird by Keir Lowther, published by Tightrope Books
10. Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction (part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
Presented by the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
In The Field, by Joan Sullivan, published by Breakwater Books