The culmination of the Atlantic Book Awards Festival is the Atlantic Book Awards Gala. Seven book awards, including one of Canada’s biggest book prizes, will be presented along with the Atlantic Legacy Award, honouring an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the advancement and encouragement of the literary arts in Atlantic Canada. The gala will include live music, light refreshments, cash bar, and special guest authors will be in attendance. Hosted by CTV’s Lataevia Beezer.

Doors open at 6:30; event starts at 7:00. Masks strongly recommended.

2022 Atlantic Book Awards Shortlist

Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction

• David Huebert, Chemical Valley (Biblioasis)
• Amber McMillan, 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 Paperclip (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)
• David Huebert, Chemical Valley (Biblioasis)
• Sharon Robart-Johnson, Jude and Diana (Fernwood Publishing)