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
- Stephen Kimber, Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics (Goose Lane Editions)
- Sue MacLeod, Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care (Conundrum Press)
- Donna Morrissey, Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist (Penguin Random House Canada)
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)
- Alexandra Harrington, The Last Time I Saw Her (Nimbus)
- C. S. Porter, Beneath Her Skin (Nimbus)
- Colin Sweets Arsenault, Short Mercy (Pottersfield Press)
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Non-Fiction)
- Joanne Gallant, A Womb in the Shape of a Heart: My Story of Miscarriage and Motherhood (Nimbus) *Best Non-Fiction of 2021
- Susan MacLeod, Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care (Conundrum Press)
- Don Oliver, A Matter of Equality: The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver (Nimbus)
2022 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist
Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
- David Huebert, Chemical Valley (Biblioasis)
- Amber MacMillan, The Running Trees (Goose Lane Editions)
- Claire Wilkshire, The Love Olympics (Breakwater Books)
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
- Breakwater Books, My Indian by Saqamaw Mi’sel Joe & Sheila O’Neill
- Goose Lane Editions, Alexa! Changing the Face of Canadian Politics by Stephen Kimber
- Goose Lane Editions with The Rooms Corporation, Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador by Mireille Eagan
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
- Michelle Butler Hallett, Constant Nobody (Goose Lane Editions) *Best Fiction of 2021
- David Huebert, Chemical Valley (Biblioasis) *Best Fiction of 2021
- Sharon Robart-Johnson, Jude and Diana (Fernwood Publishing)