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# 87 Fall 2018, Editions, Features, Fiction November 14, 2018 November 8, 2018

No Writer is An Island

by Philip Moscovitch

Carol Bruneau’s mentorship of Nicola Davison become a lasting friendship

Fiction, Reviews November 14, 2016 November 14, 2016

White Elephant Explores Familial War Zones

by Sarah Sawler

White Elephant is a brilliant exploration of human nature and relationships.

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2020 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS and FESTIVAL SHORTLIST: atlanticbookawards.ca

1. Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction

A Dark House and Other Stories by Ian Colford (Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)

DIG by Terry Doyle(Breakwater Books)

Nosy White Woman by Martha Wilson(Biblioasis)

2. Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature

EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street by Sheree Fitch(Nimbus Publishing)

A World Below by Wesley King(Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)

I’m Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas(Nimbus Publishing)

3. Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic-Published Book Award Sponsored by Friesens Corporation

Almost Feral by Gemma Hickey (Breakwater Books)

I Lost My Talk by Rita Joe and I’m Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas (companion books), illustrated by Pauline Young(Nimbus Publishing)

Land Beyond the Sea by Kevin Major(Breakwater Books)

4. Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing

Shaped by Silence: Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories by Rie Croll

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The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami by Linden MacIntyre (HarperCollins Canada)

Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice

by L. Jane McMillan (UBC Press)

5. Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing

Listening for the Dead Bells by Marian Bruce(Island Studies Press)

As British as the King: Lunenburg County During the First World War

by Gerald Hallowell(Nimbus Publishing)

Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers: Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945

by Andrew Theobald Elliott (Goose Lane Editions)

6. Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award

Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKay(Knopf Canada)

Mayann Francis: An Honourable Life by The Honourable Dr. Mayann Francis(Nimbus Publishing)

Hell and Damnation: A Sinner’s Guide to Eternal Torment by Marq de Villiers(University of Regina Press)

7. Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke LLP

The Difference by Marina Endicott(Knopf Canada)

Broken Symmetry by Rosalie Osmond(Nevermore Press)

Crow by Amy Spurway(Goose Lane Editions)

8. J.M. Abraham Poetry Award

Year of the Metal Rabbit by Tammy Armstrong(Gaspereau Press)

Smallholding by Anne Compton(Fitzhenry and Whiteside)

Belated Bris of the Brainsick by Lucas Crawford(Nightwood Editions)

9. Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration

Denise Gallagher, illustrator for Peg Bearskin: A Traditional Newfoundland Tale,

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Danielle Loranger, illustrator for Un géant dans la tête, written by Danielle Loranger (Bouton D’or Acadie)

Sydney Smith, illustrator, for Small in the City, written by Sydney Smith (Groundwood Books)

10. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction, sponsored by Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, Weed Man Maritimes, Heritage House Law Office, I Love Renovations and Simply Sage Solutions

Almost Feral by Gemma Hickey (Breakwater Books)

Wounded Hearts: Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans’ Home by Lois Legge(Nimbus Publishing)

Transplanted: My Cystic Fibrosis Double-Lung Transplant Story by Allison Watson(Nimbus Publishing)

11. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Fiction, sponsored by the family of John and Margaret Savage and Royden Trainor

DIG by Terry Doyle(Breakwater Books)

Going Dutch: A Novel by James Gregor(Simon & Schuster)

Crow by Amy Spurway (Goose Lane Editions)

12. Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction), presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth

Grandfather’s House: Returning to Cape Breton by Clive Doucet(Nimbus Publishing)

Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate by Ami McKay (Knopf Canada)

Ghosts Within: Journeying Through PTSD by Garry Leech(Fernwood Publishing)

13. Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award

Crocuses Hatch from Snow by Jaime Burnet(Vagrant Press – a Nimbus imprint)

The Innocents by Michael Crummey(Doubleday Canada)

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