The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are biennial, covering a two-calendar-year publishing period. The pairings are Fiction and Children’s/Young Adult Literature in one year, and Poetry and Non-Fiction in the next year. WANL presents these awards in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. Established in 1997, these awards honour excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing. Each category is judged by a jury of three. Shortlisted authors are announced in March.
The 2013 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards comprise the Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction and the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award. The winner of each category receives a cash prize of $1,500, and each runner-up receives $500.
Information regarding the rules of eligibility, residency requirements are posted here: http://wanl.ca/nlba.html
The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are presented under the distinguished patronage of the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Previous recipients:
Year One – 1997
Poetry: Michael Crummey for Arguments with Gravity
Non-Fiction: Dorothy Inglis for Bread and Roses
Year Two – 1998
Children’s/YA: Joan Clark for Dream Carvers
Fiction: Patrick Kavanagh for Gaff Topsails
Year Three – 1999
Poetry: John Steffler for That Night We Were Ravenous
Non-Fiction: Bernie Stapleton for They Let Down Baskets
Year Four – 2000
Children’s/YA: Janet McNaughton for Make or Break Spring
Fiction: Carmelita McGrath for Stranger Things Have Happened
Year Five – 2001
Poetry: Al Pittman for Thirty-for-Sixty
Non-Fiction: Mary Pratt for A Personal Calligraphy and Patrick O’Flaherty for Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843
Year Six – 2002
Children’s/YA: Janet McNaughton for The Secret Under My Skin
Fiction: Ed Kavanagh for The Confessions of Nipper Mooney
Year Seven – 2003
Poetry: John Steffler for Helix: New and Selected Poems
Non-Fiction: Ed Smith for From the Ashes of My Dream
Year Eight – 2004
Children’s/YA: Janet McNaughton for An Earthly Knight
Fiction: Susan Rendell for In the Chambers of the Sea
Year Nine – 2005
Poetry: Mary Dalton for Merrybegot
Non-Fiction: Stan Dragland for Apocrypha: Further Journeys
Year Ten – 2006
Children’s/YA: Janet McNaughton for Brave Jack and the Unicorn
Fiction: Joan Clark for An Audience of Chairs
Year Eleven – 2007
Poetry: Patrick Warner for There, there
Non-fiction: Gerhard P. Bassler for Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador
Year Twelve – 2008
Children’s/YA: Janet McNaughton for The Raintree Rebellion
Fiction: Bernice Morgan for Cloud of Bone
Year Thirteen – 2009
Poetry: Randall Maggs for Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
Non-fiction: Russell Wangersky for Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
Year Fourteen – 2010
Children’s/YA: Tom Dawe for Moocher in the Lun
Fiction: Jessica Grant for Come, Thou Tortoise
Year Fifteen – 2011
Poetry: Patrick Warner for Mole
Non-fiction: Rhonda Pelley for Island Maid: Voices of Outport Women
Year Sixteen – 2012
Children’s/YA: Andy Jones for Jack and the Manger
Fiction: Gerard Collins for Moonlight Sketches