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Atlantic Book Awards Society names finalists

The shortlists for the 2010 Atlantic Book Awards have been announced. The winners will be named at a ceremony on April 14, 2010, at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, N.S.

Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award:

• Michael Crummey, Galore (Doubleday Canada)
• Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada)
• Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky (Penguin Canada)

Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature:

• Jill MacLean, The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Darlene Ryan, Five Minutes More (Orca Book Publishers)
• Valerie Sherrard, Tumbleweed Skies (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)

APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award:

• Birds of Newfoundland Field Guide, by Ian Warkentin and Sandy Newton (Boulder Publications)
• By the Rivers of Brooklyn, by Trudy J. Morgan-Cole (Breakwater Books)
• A Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary, by David A. Francis and Robert M. Leavitt (Goose Lane Editions)

Atlantic Independent Booksellers’ Choice Award:

• Michael Crummey, Galore (Doubleday Canada)
• Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada)
• David Adams Richards, God Is (Doubleday Canada)

Atlantic Poetry Prize:

• Anne Compton, Asking Questions Indoors and Out (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Lean-To (Gaspereau Press)
• Zachariah Wells, Track & Trace (Biblioasis)

Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction):

• George Elliott Clarke, I & I (Goose Lane Editions)
• Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop’s Man (Random House Canada)
• Anna Quon, Migration Songs (Invisible Publishing)

Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction):

• Greg Cochkanoff and Bob Chaulk, SS Atlantic: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea (Goose Lane Editions)
• Stephen Kimber, IWK: A Century of Caring for Families (Nimbus Publishing)
• Anne Murray with Michael Posner, All of Me (Knopf Canada)

Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing:

• Raoul R. Anderson and John K. Crellin, eds., Mi’sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey (Flanker Press)
• Greg Cochkanoff and Bob Chaulk, SS Atlantic: The White Star Line’s First Disaster at Sea (Goose Lane Editions)
• Mike Heffernan, Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster (Creative Publishing)

Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Prize for Non-fiction:

• Jason I. Brown, Our Days Are Numbered (McClelland & Stewart)
• Harry Bruce, Page Fright (McClelland & Stewart)
• John DeMont, Coal Black Heart (Doubleday Canada)

Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Illustration:

• Kathy (HildaRose) Kaulbach, Johnny and the Gipsy Moth by Deannie Sullivan-Fraser (Creative Publishing)
• Scott A. Keating, What Colour Is the Ocean? by Gary Collins with Maggie Rose Parsons (Flanker Press)
• Marie Moore, Cape Breton Wonders by Shirley Everett and Chris Augusta Scott (Cape Breton University Press)

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

• Binnie Brennan, Harbour View (Quattro Books)
• Greg Malone, You Better Watch Out (Knopf Canada)
• Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky (Penguin Canada)