Past Winners
2024
The Atlantic Book Awards was held on June 5, 2024 at Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, Halifax, NS.
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature
WINNER: The Words We Share (Annick Press) by Jack Wong
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book
WINNER: Goose Lane Editions for Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision by Anne Koval
Atlantic Legacy Award
WINNER: Gloria Ann Wesley
J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award
WINNER: Soft Inheritance (Palimpsest Press) by Fawn Parker
Readers’ Choice Award
WINNER: Freddie the Flyer by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail & Fred Carmichael, illustrated by Audrea Loreen-Wulf. Published by Tundra Books.
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
WINNER: A Grandmother Begins the Story (Viking Canada) by Michelle Porter
2023
The Atlantic Book Awards was held on June 7, 2023 at Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, Halifax, NS.
Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction
WINNER: Rafael Has Pretty Eyes (Goose Lane Editions) by Elaine McCluskey
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature
WINNER: Decoding Dot Grey (Nimbus Publishing) by Nicola Davison
APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book
WINNER: Goose Lane Editions with the Beaverbrook Art Gallery for Wabanaki Modern / Wabanaki Kiskukewey / Wabanaki Moderne by Emma Hassencahl-Perley & John Leroux
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
WINNER: The Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations (UBC Press) by Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis
J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award
WINNER: Hsin (Brick Books) by Nanci Lee
Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
WINNER: Wonder World (Enfield & Wizenty/Great Plains Publications) by KR Byggdin
Thomas Raddall
Atlantic Fiction Award
Ann Connor Brimer
Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature
J. M. Abraham
Atlantic Poetry Award
APMA
Best Atlantic-Publisher Book
Atlantic Legacy Award
Gloria Ann Wesley
