Prince Edward Island writer and researcher Katherine Dewar is nominated for an Atlantic Book Award for her work on Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War.
The short list was released by the awards committee Tuesday night in Halifax.
Dewar's book, which was published by Island Studies Press in 2014, salutes the work of Canadian nurses during the First World War, which celebrated its centenary last year.
RELATED: A good yarn about women at war
SHORT LIST OF ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS NOMINEES
Dewar was granted access to Island nurses' personal scrapbooks, letters home, private diaries and wartime photo albums, and the book features many wartime black-and-white photos reproduced for the first time.
Twenty-four books are nominated in eight categories for the 2015 Atlantic Book Awards.
Among the more familiar names on the shortlist are former CBC host Linden MacIntyre for his novel, Punishment, and musician Alan Doyle is short-listed for his work, Where I Belong: Small Town to Great Big Sea.
The awards festival runs May 7-14 with free literary events in all four provinces. Festival details will be available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca soon. Winners of the 2015 Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at a special awards show on the last night of the weeklong festival, Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth. Tickets will on sale by April 15 at Ticketpro.ca.
Prince Edward Island writer and researcher Katherine Dewar is nominated for an Atlantic Book Award for her work on Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War.
The short list was released by the awards committee Tuesday night in Halifax.
Dewar's book, which was published by Island Studies Press in 2014, salutes the work of Canadian nurses during the First World War, which celebrated its centenary last year.
RELATED: A good yarn about women at war
SHORT LIST OF ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS NOMINEES
Dewar was granted access to Island nurses' personal scrapbooks, letters home, private diaries and wartime photo albums, and the book features many wartime black-and-white photos reproduced for the first time.
Twenty-four books are nominated in eight categories for the 2015 Atlantic Book Awards.
Among the more familiar names on the shortlist are former CBC host Linden MacIntyre for his novel, Punishment, and musician Alan Doyle is short-listed for his work, Where I Belong: Small Town to Great Big Sea.
The awards festival runs May 7-14 with free literary events in all four provinces. Festival details will be available at www.atlanticbookawards.ca soon. Winners of the 2015 Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at a special awards show on the last night of the weeklong festival, Thursday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth. Tickets will on sale by April 15 at Ticketpro.ca.
2015 ATLANTIC BOOK AWARDS and FESTIVAL SHORTLIST
1. Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
Jack, the King of Ashes
By Andy Jones
Publisher: Running Goat Books & Broadsides
Dear Canada: Flame and Ashes: The Great Fire Diary of Triffie Winsor
By Janet McNaughton
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.
The End of the Line
By Sharon E. McKay
Publisher: Annick Press Ltd.
2. APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award, Sponsored by Friesens Corporation
Breakwater Books for
A Sudden Sun
By: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole
Nimbus Publishing for
Atlantic Coastal Gardening: Growing Inspired, Resilient Plants by the Sea
By: Denise Adams
Creative Book Publishing for
Island Kitchen: An Ode to Newfoundland
By Chef Mark McCrowe with Sasha Okshevsky
3. Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing, Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing
Equal as Citizens: The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea
By Richard Starr
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Ltd.
Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War
By Katherine Dewar
Publisher: Island Studies Press
Bringing Home Animals: Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec (2nd Ed.)
By Adrian Tanner
Publisher: ISER Books, Memorial University of Newfoundland
4. Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson,
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
Fire in the Belly: How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business
By Gordon Pitts
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family
By Natalie Meisner
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
Winds of Change: The Life and Legacy of Calvin W. Ruck
By Lindsay Ruck
Publisher: Pottersfield Press
5. Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
By Jenny Higgins
Publisher: Boulder Publications
Something of a Peasant Paradise?: Comparing Rural Societies in Acadie and the Loudunais, 1604-1755
By Gregory M. W. Kennedy
Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press
They Called Me Chocolate Rocket: The Life and Times of John Paris, Jr., Hockey’s First Black Professional Coach
By John Paris Jr. with Robert Ashe
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Ltd.
6. Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction), presented by Boyne Clarke
Punishment
By Linden MacIntyre
Publisher: Random House Canada
Just Beneath My Skin
By Darren Greer
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Grist: a novel
By Linda Little
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
7. Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
Illustrator: Sydney Smith (nominee)
Music is for Everyone
(Written by Jill Barber)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
Illustrator: Michael Pittman (nominee)
Wow Wow and Haw Haw
(Written by George Murray)
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Illustrator: Nancy Rose (nominee)
The Secret Life of Squirrels
(Written by Nancy Rose)
Publisher: Penguin Canada
8. Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, sponsored by Collins Barrow LLP, Weed Man Maritimes, and the family of John and Margaret Savage
Vienna Nocturne: a novel
By Vivien Shotwell
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome: stories
By Megan Gail Coles
Publisher: Creative Book Publishing
Where I Belong: Small Town to Great Big Sea
By Alan Doyle
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
