The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards are administered by the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador under the distinguished patronage of The Honourable John C. Crosbie, PC, OC, ONL, QC, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. They are financed by corporate and private sponsors. The winner in each category receives a cash prize of $1,500 and each runner-up will receive $500.

The 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards

Winner of the 2010 Bruneau Family Children's/YA Literature Award

Moocher in the Lun
by Tom Dawe

Winner of the 2010 Downhome Fiction Award

Come, Thou Tortoise
by Jessica Grant

Winners & Finalists for 2009 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Awards

Rogers Cable Non-fiction Award, sponsored by Rogers Cable

Winner: Russell Wangersky for Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself (Thomas Allen, 2008), an account of the author's years as a volunteer firefighter.

• Ray Guy for Ray Guy: The Smallwood Years (Boulder Publications, 2006), a collection of columns and articles written between 1963 and 1970;
• Marie Wadden for Where The Pavement Ends (Douglas & McIntyre, 2008), an exploration of Canada's Aboriginal recovery movement and the urgent need for reconciliation; and

EJ Pratt Poetry Award, sponsored by Kathy LeGrow and the KA Pratt Group of Companies.

• Winner: Randall Maggs for Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books, 2008), a collection of conversational poems that follow the tragic trajectory of the life and work of one of hockey's best goalies;
• George Murray for The Rush to Here (Nightwood Editions, 2007), poems that combine what the poet calls "thought rhymes" with a structured sonnet form; and
• Agnes Walsh for Going Around with Bachelors (Brick Books, 2007), poems that employ the tang of Newfoundland language to meld the plain with the sophisticated.

2008 Winners

Winner of the Downhome Fiction Award
Bernice Morgan for Cloud of Bone (Knopf Canada, 2007)

Winner of the Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award
Janet McNaughton for Raintree Rebellion (HarperCollins Canada, 2006)

Other 2008 shortlisted

Downhome Fiction Award shortlist
Russell Wangersky for The Hour of Bad Decisions (Coteau Books, 2006) Kathleen Winter for boYs (Biblioasis, 2007)

Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award shortlist

Catherine Hogan Safer for What if Your Mom Made Raisin Buns (Creative Book Publishing, 2006)
Robin McGrath for Livyers World (Creative Book Publishing, 2007)

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Past Winners

Fiction

2008 Downhome Fiction Award
Bernice Morgan for Cloud of Bone(Knopf Canada, 2007)

2006 Bennington Gate Fiction Award
Joan Clark, An Audience of Chairs (Knopf Canada, 2005)

2004 Bennington Gate Fiction Award
Susan Rendell, In the Chambers of the Sea (Killick Press, 2003)

2002 Bennington Gate Fiction Award
Ed Kavanagh, The Confessions of Nipper Mooney: A novel (Killick Press, 2001)

2000 Bennington Gate Fiction Award
Carmelita McGrath, Stranger things have happened (Killick Press, 1999)

1998 Newtel Fiction Award
Patrick Kavanagh, Gaff Topsails (Cormorant Books, 1996)

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Non-fiction

2007 Rogers Cable Non-fiction Award
Gerhard P. Bassler, Vikings to U-Boats: The German Experience in Newfoundland and Labrador (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)

2005 Rogers Cable Non-fiction Award
Stan Dragland, Apocrypha: Further Journeys (NeWest Press, 2003)

2003 Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award
Ed Smith, From the Ashes Of My Dreams (Flanker Press, 2001)

2001 Newfoundland Herald Non-Fiction Award
Mary Pratt, A Personal Calligraphy (Goose Lane Editions, 2000)
Patrick O'Flaherty, Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843 (Long Beach Press, 1999)

1999 Non-Fiction Award
Berni Stapleton, They let down baskets (Killick Press, 1998)

1997 Non-Fiction Award
Dorothy Inglis, Bread and roses (Killick Press, 1996)

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Poetry

2007 E. J. Pratt Poetry Award
Patrick Warner, There, there (Véhicule Press, 2005)

2005 E. J. Pratt Poetry Award
Mary Dalton, Merrybegot (Véhicule Press, 2003)

2003 Craig L Dobbin Poetry Award
John Steffler, Helix: New and Selected Poems (Signal Editions, 2002)

2001 Poetry Award
Al Pittman, Thirty-for-sixty (Breakwater Books, 1999)

1999 Darmonkow Associates Poetry Award
John Steffler, That Night We Were Ravenous (McClelland & Stewart, 1998)

1997 Poetry Award
Michael Crummey, Arguments with gravity (Quarry Press, 1996

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Children's/young adult

2008 Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award
Janet McNaughton for Raintree Rebellion(HarperCollins Canada, 2006)

2006 Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award
Janet McNaughton, Brave Jack and the Unicorn (Tundra Books, 2005)

2004 Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award
Janet McNaughton, An Earthly Knight (HarperCollins, 2004)

2002 Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Award
Janet McNaughton, The secret under my skin (HarperCollins, 2000)

2000 NewTel Children's/Young Adult Award
Janet McNaughton, Make or break spring (Tuckamore Books, 1998)

1998 Hibernia Children's/Young Adult Award
Joan Clark, Dream Carvers (Viking Press, 1995)

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