Atlantic Book Awards & Festival
# Atlantic Book Awards & Festival

The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is an annual event celebrating Atlantic Canadian writing and book illustration. Free events take place across the four Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). The flagship event is the awards ceremony itself at which 13 different literary awards are presented.

## Awards

* Thomas Head Raddall Award - fiction
* J. M. Abraham Poetry Award - poetry
* Ann Connor Brimer Award - children's literature
* Alistair MacLeod Prize - short fiction
* Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
* Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
* Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
* Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction
* Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award - fiction
* Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award - non-fiction
* Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
* Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction
* Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Non-Fiction
