2018 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlists
The Atlantic Book Awards Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the twelve different book prizes comprising the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards. The 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 10 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.

Scars and Other Stories

Barrelling Forward
Stories

Peninsula Sinking

The Painting

Polly MacCauley's Finest, Divinest, Wooliest Gift of All
A Yarn for All Ages

The Memory Chair

The Mill
Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

The Sea Was in Their Blood
The Disappearance of the Miss Ally's Five-Man Crew

The Halifax Explosion
Canada's Worst Disaster

Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919

Run, Hide, Repeat
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

The Long Way Home
A Personal History of Nova Scotia

A Bird on Every Tree

The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil

Everthing We’ve Loved Comes Back To Find Us

I'd Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game

All the Names Between

Atlantic Animal ABC

Smoot
A Rebellious Shadow

Town Is by the Sea

Just Jen
Thriving Through Multiple Sclerosis

Chasing Smoke
A Wildfire Memoir

Crying for the Moon
A Novel
