The Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of scholarly writing published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The award was established in 2013, sponsored by Marquis Imprimeur, and is worth . The award was last presented in 2023.
Winners and nominees Year Writer TitleResult 2013 Susan Dodd The Ocean RangerWinner Shannon Ryan A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818Finalist Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis The Language of This Land, Mi'kma'ki 2014 Ruth Holmes Whitehead Black LoyalistsWinner Jonathan Fowler and Earle Lockerby Jeremiah Bancroft at Fort Beauséjour and Grand-PréFinalist David Bell Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick 2015 Richard Starr The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian IdeaWinner Katherine Dewar Those Splendid GirlsFinalist Adrian Tanner Bringing Home Animals 2016 Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman The Servant StateWinner Brian Cuthbertson Stubborn ResistanceFinalist Michael Newton Seanchaidh na Coille / Memory Keeper of the Forest 2017 Alex Marland Brand CommandWinner Greg Marquis The Vigilant EyeFinalist Erin Wunker Notes from a Feminist Killjoy 2018 Joan Baxter The MillWinner Rachel Bryant The Homing PlaceFinalist Karolyn Smardz Frost Steal Away Home 2019 Ingrid R. G. Waldron There's Something in the WaterWinner Lars Osberg The Age of Increasing InequalityFinalist Suzanne Stewart The Tides of Time 2020 L. Jane McMillan Truth and ConvictionWinner Rie Croll Shaped by SilenceFinalist Linden MacIntyre The Wake 2021 Andrea Procter A Long JourneyWinner Alan MacEachern The Miramichi FireFinalist Margaret Conrad At the Ocean's Edge 2022 Ardath Whynacht Insurgent LoveWinner George Elliott Clarke Where Beauty SurvivedFinalist Matthew W. Betts and M. Gabriel Hrynick The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast 2023 Carol Lynne D'Arcangelis The Solidarity EncounterWinner Mark David Turner Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget / On Inuit CinemaFinalist Elizabeth Yeoman Exactly What I Said
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