Thomas Head Raddall Award
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $25,000.
Winners and nominees
1990s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Wayne Johnston | The Divine Ryans | |
| 1992 | Herb Curtis | The Last Tasmanian | |
| 1993 | John Steffler | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | |
| 1994 | David Adams Richards | For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down | |
| 1995 | Bernice Morgan | Waiting for Time | |
| 1996 | M. T. Dohaney | Marriage of Masks | |
| 1997 | Alfred Silver | Acadia | |
| 1998 | Shree Ghatage | Awake When All the World Is Asleep | |
| Edward Riche | Rare Birds | ||
| 1999 | Wayne Johnston | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | |
| Lynn Coady | Strange Heaven | ||
| Don Hannah | The Wise and Foolish Virgins | ||
| David Adams Richards | The Bay of Love and Sorrows |
2000s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Alistair MacLeod | No Great Mischief | |
| Carmelita McGrath | Stranger Things Have Happened | ||
| Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law | ||
| 2001 | Carol Bruneau | Purple for Sky | |
| Robert Finley | The Accidental Indies | ||
| David Adams Richards | Mercy Among the Children | ||
| 2002 | Michael Crummey | River Thieves | |
| Linda Little | Strong Hollow | ||
| Anne Simpson | Canterbury Beach | ||
| 2003 | Donna Morrissey | Downhill Chance | |
| Christy Ann Conlin | Heave | ||
| Susan Goyette | Lures | ||
| 2004 | Kenneth J. Harvey | The Town That Forgot How to Breathe | |
| Leo McKay Jr. | Twenty-Six | ||
| David Adams Richards | River of the Brokenhearted | ||
| 2005 | Edward Riche | The Nine Planets | |
| Kelly Cooper | Eyehill | ||
| Michael Winter | The Big Why | ||
| 2006 | Donna Morrissey | Sylvanus Now | |
| George Elliott Clarke | George & Rue | ||
| Lisa Moore | Alligator | ||
| 2007 | Linda Little | Scotch River | |
| Wayne Johnston | The Custodian of Paradise | ||
| Ami McKay | The Birth House | ||
| 2008 | Don Hannah | Ragged Islands | |
| Bernice Morgan | Cloud of Bone | ||
| David Adams Richards | The Lost Highway | ||
| 2009 | Douglas Arthur Brown | Quintet | |
| Ian Colford | Evidence | ||
| Sara Tilley | Skin Room |
2010s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Shandi Mitchell | Under This Unbroken Sky | |
| Michael Crummey | Galore | ||
| Linden MacIntyre | The Bishop's Man | ||
| 2011 | Kathleen Winter | Annabel | |
| Alexander MacLeod | Light Lifting | ||
| Beth Powning | The Sea Captain's Wife | ||
| 2012 | David Adams Richards | Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul | |
| Valerie Compton | The Road | ||
| Heather Jessup | The Lightning Field | ||
| 2013 | Russell Wangersky | Whirl Away | |
| Keir Lowther | Dirty Bird | ||
| Donna Morrissey | The Deception of Livvy Higgs | ||
| 2014 | William Kowalski | The Hundred Hearts | |
| Shashi Bhat | The Family Took Shape | ||
| Ed Kavanagh | Strays | ||
| 2015 | Darren Greer | Just Beneath My Skin | |
| Michael Crummey | Sweetland | ||
| David Adams Richards | Crimes Against My Brother | ||
| 2016 | R. W. Gray | Entropic | |
| Elisabeth de Mariaffi | The Devil You Know | ||
| Mark Anthony Jarman | Knife Party at the Hotel Europa | ||
| 2017 | Donna Morrissey | The Fortunate Brother | |
| Darren Greer | Advocate | ||
| Ami McKay | The Witches of New York | ||
| 2018 | Oisín Curran | Blood Fable | |
| Carol Bruneau | A Bird on Every Tree | ||
| Sarah Faber | All Is Beauty Now | ||
| 2019 | Lisa Moore | Something for Everyone | |
| Sharon Bala | The Boat People | ||
| Elisabeth de Mariaffi | Hysteria |
2020s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Michael Crummey | The Innocents | |
| Jaime Burnet | Crocuses Hatch from Snow | ||
| Shandi Mitchell | The Waiting Hours | ||
| 2021 | Anne Simpson | Speechless | |
| Bridget Canning | Some People's Children | ||
| Morgan Murray | Dirty Birds | ||
| 2022 | Michelle Butler Hallett | Constant Nobody | |
| David Huebert | Chemical Valley | ||
| Sharon Robart-Johnson | Jude and Diana | ||
| 2023 | K.R. Byggdin | Wonder World | |
| Bobbi French | The Good Women of Safe Harbour | ||
| Lisa Moore | This Is How We Love |