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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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.)

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Chores : poems
Burton, Maggie.
Chores.
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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...
Interrobang
Dalton, Mary
The spirit of the interrobang, a punctuation mark merging the questioning and the exclamatory, informs Mary Dalton' s compelling investigations of home and identity in this, her sixth poetry collection-- in extraordinary poems of aging; of despised plants once revered; of rites and sites...
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
Familiar Monsters of the Flood
Familiar Monsters of the Flood is a tight, emotional, and stunning debut collection of poems. Tia McLennan's mastery of metaphor and concise word choice packs a punch in these poems about intergenerational connection, motherhood, grief, ecology and memory. The poems in Familiar Monsters of...
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
Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Shortlisted, E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Prize Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation....
Island
Walbourne-Gough, Douglas
Winner, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award Finalist, Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) Shortlisted, E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Prize Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ "Canada rejected our applications for enrolment in the Qalipu First Nation....
Extraordinary Passages : The Life and Times of Margaret Iris Duley, Newfoundland's Pathbreaking Novelist
Duley, Margot I.
Through the voices of vivid characters, witty and moving dialogue, and poetically drawn landscapes and seascapes, Margaret Duley created a Newfoundland stage upon which she explored existential and universal questions. Duley won international recognition with four novels, and though lauded by...
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 : [online electronic book] ocean dispatches from a seabird b
Hogan, Holly (Biologist)
Ebook
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 : [online electronic audiobook] ocean dispatches from a seab
Hogan, Holly (Biologist)
Ebook
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 * WINNER OF THE 2025 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2024 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 * CBC Books' Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 ...
Invisible prisons : Jack Whalen's tireless fight for justice
Moore, Lisa
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
Moore, Lisa
WINNER OF THE 2024 BMO WINTERSET AWARD * WINNER OF THE 2025 NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE 2024 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION * The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2024 * CBC Books' Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024 ...
One man's journey: the Mi'kmaw revival Ktaqmkuk
White, Calvin
Other
With a story spanning over seventy years of the life of respected Elder Calvin White, One Man's Journey weaves personal history with White's account of the Mi'kmaw movement and his role in the reclamation and restoration of pride in Mi'kmaw culture in Newfoundland. Elder White's journey...
One man's journey : the Mi'kmaw revival in Ktaqmkuk
White, Calvin
Ebook
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