2022 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist

The links below will take you to the respective reviews here at TMR. A * indicates one of our “Best Books of 2021” selections.

Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award

George Borden Writing for Change Award

  • Glen Canning (with Susan McClelland), My Daughter Rehtaeh Parsons (Goose Lane Editions) *Best Non-Fiction of 2021
  • Stephen Kimber, Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics (Goose Lane Editions)
  • Don Oliver, A Matter of Equality: The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver (Nimbus)

Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)

  • Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Playwrights Canada Press)
  • Sharon Robart-Johnson, Jude and Diana (Fernwood Publishing)
  • Colin Sweets Arsenault, Short Mercy (Pottersfield Press)

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Fiction)

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Non-Fiction)

2022 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist

Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction

Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature

  • Jodie Callaghan, The Train (Second Story Press)
  • Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe (Amulet Books)
  • Rebecca Thomas, Swift Fox All Along (Annick Press)

APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award

Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing

  • Matthew W. Betts & M. Gabriel Hrynick, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast (University of Toronto Press)
  • George Elliott Clarke, Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir (Knopf Canada)
  • Ardath Whynacht, Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing)

J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award

  • Alyda Faber, Poisonous if Eaten Raw (Goose Lane Editions)
  • Triny Finlay, Myself a Paper Clip (Goose Lane Editions)
  • Rebecca Salazar, Sulphurtongue (Penguin Random House)

Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

  • Marie Lafrance, Gemma and the Giant Girl, written by Sara O’Leary (Tundra)
  • Alea Marley, This is Ruby written by Sara O’Leary (Tundra)
  • Réjean Roy, Le Géant du Nord Canadien written by Réjean Roy (Bouton d’or Acadie)

Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award

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