29th Annual Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards

All titles longlisted and shortlisted for the EJ Pratt Family Poetry Prize and the Newfoundland & Labrador Non-Fiction Book Award, celebrating books from 2023 and 2024. (For A Queer History of Newfoundland by Rhea Rollman, which is also on the longlist, please search the catalogue by title or author.)

Updated January 19, 2026
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Chores
Burton, Maggie.
Paper Book
***2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Winner*** This semi-autobiographical collection of poetry offers an historical snapshot of domestic life that views women's labour, relationships, and sexuality through a feminist lens. Chores is about families and the...
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Paper Book
***2024 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Winner*** This semi-autobiographical collection of poetry offers an historical snapshot of domestic life that views women's labour, relationships, and sexuality through a feminist lens. Chores is about families and the...
Optic nerve : poems /
Hollett, Matthew, 1982-
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 JM ABRAHAM POETRY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD Poems using fervent whimsy and wordplay to examine photography and seeing. Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on...
Optic nerve : [online electronic book] poems.
Hollett, Matthew, 1982-
Ebook
Total Party Kill
Paper Book
A raw, beautifully-composed collection exploring addiction, trauma, poverty, and the journey toward recovery and spirituality through the vernacular and iconography of the popular roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Total Party Kill (TPK): tabletop roleplaying slang for the situation of...
Island
Walbourne-Gough, Douglas
Paper Book
Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation. Initially, I was relieved by the rejection. I'd watched...
Island
Walbourne-Gough, Douglas
Ebook
Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Longlisted, E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation....
Called upstairs : Moravian Inuit music in Labrador
Gordon, Tom
Paper Book
A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of Christian colonization. In the Inuit homeland of Northern Labrador, however, that church is more likely to resonate with the voices of a...
Message in a bottle : ocean dispatches from a seabird biologist /
Hogan, Holly (Biologist)
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LANE ANDERSON AWARD From the heart of the Labrador...
Message in a bottle : ocean dispatches from a seabird biologist
Hogan, Holly (Biologist)
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LANE ANDERSON AWARD From the heart of the Labrador...
Message in a bottle : ocean dispatches from a seabird biologist
Hogan, Holly (Biologist)
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LANE ANDERSON AWARD From the heart of the Labrador...
Invisible Prisons : Jack Whalen's Tireless Fight for Justice
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2024 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE * One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 * One of CBC's Best Canadian Non-Fiction Books of 2024 Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on...
Invisible Prisons : Jack Whalen's Long Journey Towards Justice
Moore, Lisa.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2024 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE * One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 * One of CBC's Best Canadian Non-Fiction Books of 2024 Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on...
Invisible Prisons : Jack Whalen's Long Journey Towards Justice
Moore, Lisa.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2024 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE * One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 * One of CBC's Best Canadian Non-Fiction Books of 2024 Riveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on...

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