2017 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the eight different book prizes comprising the 2017 Atlantic Book Awards. The 22 nominated titles represent a wide range of books from Atlantic Canada—everything from history to kids’ books. The Awards will be given out in Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, on Thursday, May 18 at 7:00 p.m. This year’s Pioneer Award will also be awarded to someone from Nova Scotia who has made a substantial contribution to the literary life of the region.

Bad Things Happen

Four-Letter Words

Willem De Kooning's Paintbrush

Into the Wasteland

Flannery

Rain Shadow

Brand Command
Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control

Notes From a Feminist Killjoy
Essays on Everyday Life

Sable Island in Black and White

Written in the Ruins
Cape Breton Island’s Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement

Conflicted Colony
Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador

Advocate

Disposable Souls

The Clay Girl
A Novel

The Snow Knows

Sky Pig

Turmoil, as Usual
Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the road to the 2015 election

I'm Not What I Seem
The many stories of Rita MacNeil's life