The Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards. Winners 1997 to present. Current shortlists.

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.

This was the twelfth consecutive year for the awards, which consider books released in the two years previous. In alternate years, non-fiction and poetry are recognized.

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 The 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)

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 Confessons of Nipper Mooney (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)

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 (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)

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

Children's/young adult

2008 Bruneau Family Children's/Young Adult Literature Award
Janet McNaughton for The 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, The Dream Carvers (Viking Press, 1995)