Winners

  • 2020

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    The Difference     by Marina Endicott published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Before My Time (formerly Daughter of Family G)     by Ami McKay published by Alfred A Knopf Canada

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Crow     by Amy Spurway https://gooselane.com/products/crow published by Goose Lane Editions

  • 2019

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    A Circle on the Surface     by Carol Bruneau published by Nimbus Publishing

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    The Blind Mechanic     by Marilyn Davidson Elliott published by Nimbus Publishing

  • 2018

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    Peninsula Singing     by David Huebert published by Biblioasis

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    The Sea Was in Their Blood: The Disappearance of the Miss Ally's Five-Man Crew     by Quentin Casey published by Nimbus Publishing

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    All is Beauty Now     by Sarah Faber https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/imprints/MS/mcclelland-stewart published by McClelland & Stewart

  • 2017

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    Advocate     by Darren Greer published by Cormorant Books

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land     by Graham Reynolds with Wanda Robson published by Fernwood Publishing

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life     by Erin Wunker http://bookthug.ca/shop/books/new-books/notes-from-a-feminist-killjoy-essays-on-… published by BookThug

  • 2016

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    When the Saints     by Sarah Mian published by Harper Collins Canada

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Aftershock     by Janet Maybee published by Nimbus Publishing

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    When the Saints     by Sarah Mian http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443431071/when-the-saints published by Harper Collins Canada

  • 2015

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    Punishment     by Linden MacIntyre published by Penguin Random House Canada

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) 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 published by Nimbus Publishing

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome: Stories     by Megan Gail Coles published by Creative Book Publishing

  • 2014

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    Fallsy Downsies     by Stephanie Domet

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Scapegoat     by Joel Zemel

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Turn Us Again     by Charlotte R. Mendel

  • 2013

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    D. R. MacDonald for "Anna From Away"

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal Vechambre for "French Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History/ Le gout francais au Canada atlantique 1604-1758: Une histoire gastronomique

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Keir Lowther for "Dirty Bird"

  • 2012

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    Mary Rose Donnelly for "Great Village"

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Harry Thurston for "The Atlantic Coast"

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Riel Nason for "The Town that Drowned"

  • 2011

    Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) presented by BoyneClarkeLLP:

    Anne Emery for Children in the Morning

    Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction) presented by the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth:

    Jerry Lockett for Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada

    Margaret and John Savage First Book Award:

    Alexander MacLeod for Light Lifting