Gloria Ann Wesley was awarded the Atlantic Legacy Award at the Atlantic Book Awards gala in Halifax on June 5. (Stoo Metz Photo)

The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards were named at a gala event in Halifax on June 5.

Along with the annual book awards and the inaugural readers’ choice award, the 2024 Atlantic Legacy Award was presented to Gloria Ann Wesley, a poet, children’s author, and retired teacher.

The winners were chosen from shortlists announced in April.

A video of the awards ceremony is available online.

Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature

• The Words We Share by Jack Wong (Annick Press)

J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award

• Soft Inheritance by Fawn Parker (Palimpsest Press)

Readers’ Choice Award

• Freddie the Flyer by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail and Fred Carmichael (Tundra Books)

APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award 

• Goose Lane Editions for Mary Pratt: A Love Affair with Vision by Anne Koval

Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award

• A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter (Viking Canada)