Thomas Head Raddall Award

The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.^[1] The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $30,000, with additional finalists receiving $500 each.^[2]

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
1991	Wayne Johnston	The Divine Ryans	^[3]
1992	Herb Curtis	The Last Tasmanian	^[4]
1993	John Steffler	The Afterlife of George Cartwright	^[5]
1994	David Adams Richards	For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down	^[6]
1995	Bernice Morgan	Waiting for Time	^[7]
1996	M. T. Dohaney	A Marriage of Masks	^[8]
1997	Alfred Silver	Acadia	^[9]
1998	Shree Ghatage	Awake When All the World Is Asleep	^[10]
1998	Edward Riche	Rare Birds	^[11]
1999	Wayne Johnston	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams	^[12]
	Lynn Coady	Strange Heaven	^[13]
	Don Hannah	The Wise and Foolish Virgins
	David Adams Richards	The Bay of Love and Sorrows

2000s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
2000	Alistair MacLeod	No Great Mischief	^[14]
	Carmelita McGrath	Stranger Things Have Happened	^[15]
	Donna Morrissey	Kit's Law	^[15]
2001	Carol Bruneau	Purple for Sky	^[16]
	Robert Finley	The Accidental Indies	^[17]
	David Adams Richards	Mercy Among the Children	^[17]
2002	Michael Crummey	River Thieves	^[18]
	Linda Little	Strong Hollow	^[19]
	Anne Simpson	Canterbury Beach	^[19]
2003	Donna Morrissey	Downhill Chance	^[20]
	Christy Ann Conlin	Heave	^[21]
	Susan Goyette	Lures	^[21]
2004	Kenneth J. Harvey	The Town That Forgot How to Breathe	^[22]
	Leo McKay Jr.	Twenty-Six	^[23]
	David Adams Richards	River of the Brokenhearted	^[23]
2005	Edward Riche	The Nine Planets	^[24]
	Kelly Cooper	Eyehill	^[25]
	Michael Winter	The Big Why	^[25]
2006	Donna Morrissey	Sylvanus Now	^[20]
	George Elliott Clarke	George & Rue	^[26]
	Lisa Moore	Alligator	^[26]
2007	Linda Little	Scotch River	^[27]
	Wayne Johnston	The Custodian of Paradise	^[28]
	Ami McKay	The Birth House	^[28]
2008	Don Hannah	Ragged Islands	^[29]
	Bernice Morgan	Cloud of Bone	^[30]
	David Adams Richards	The Lost Highway	^[30]
2009	Douglas Arthur Brown	Quintet	^[31]
	Ian Colford	Evidence
	Sara Tilley	Skin Room

2010s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
2010	Shandi Mitchell	Under This Unbroken Sky	^[32]
	Michael Crummey	Galore
	Linden MacIntyre	The Bishop's Man
2011	Kathleen Winter	Annabel	^[33]
	Alexander MacLeod	Light Lifting	^[34]
	Beth Powning	The Sea Captain's Wife	^[34]
2012	David Adams Richards	Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul	^[1]
	Valerie Compton	The Road	^[35]
	Heather Jessup	The Lightning Field	^[35]
2013	Russell Wangersky	Whirl Away	^[36]
	Keir Lowther	Dirty Bird	^[37]
	Donna Morrissey	The Deception of Livvy Higgs	^[37]
2014	William Kowalski	The Hundred Hearts	^[38]
	Shashi Bhat	The Family Took Shape	^[39]
	Ed Kavanagh	Strays	^[39]
2015	Darren Greer	Just Beneath My Skin	^[40]
	Michael Crummey	Sweetland	^[41]
	David Adams Richards	Crimes Against My Brother	^[41]
2016	R. W. Gray	Entropic	^[42]
	Elisabeth de Mariaffi	The Devil You Know	^[43]
	Mark Anthony Jarman	Knife Party at the Hotel Europa	^[43]
2017	Donna Morrissey	The Fortunate Brother	^[44]
	Darren Greer	Advocate	^[45]
	Ami McKay	The Witches of New York	^[45]
2018	Oisín Curran	Blood Fable	^[46]
	Carol Bruneau	A Bird on Every Tree	^[47]
	Sarah Faber	All Is Beauty Now	^[47]
2019	Lisa Moore	Something for Everyone	^[48]
	Sharon Bala	The Boat People	^[49]
	Elisabeth de Mariaffi	Hysteria	^[49]

2020s

Year	Writer	Title	Ref.
2020	Michael Crummey	The Innocents	^[50]
	Jaime Burnet	Crocuses Hatch from Snow	^[51]
	Shandi Mitchell	The Waiting Hours	^[51]
2021	Anne Simpson	Speechless	^[52]
	Bridget Canning	Some People's Children	^[53]
	Morgan Murray	Dirty Birds	^[53]
2022	Michelle Butler Hallett	Constant Nobody	^[54]
	David Huebert	Chemical Valley	^[55]
	Sharon Robart-Johnson	Jude and Diana	^[55]
2023	K.R. Byggdin	Wonder World	^[56]
	Bobbi French	The Good Women of Safe Harbour	^[57]
	Lisa Moore	This Is How We Love	^[57]
2024	Michelle Porter	A Grandmother Begins the Story	^[58]
	Violet Browne	This Is the House That Luke Built	^[59]
	Charlene Carr	Hold My Girl
	Amanda Peters	The Berry Pickers
	William Ping	Hollow Bamboo

References

External links

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