Ann Connor Brimer Award
The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children's Literature is a $5,000 annual award given to an Atlantic Canadian writer deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to literature for young people. Starting in 2016, the prize alternates annually between young adult and children's fiction published in the previous two years.
The Ann Connor Brimer Award is administered by The Ann Connor Brimer Award Society. Nomination information can be found on the websites of the Atlantic Book Awards and the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
The award is named for Ann Elisabeth Connor Brimer. Brimer was a teacher, as well as executive director of the Canadian Learning Materials Centre, a research associate with the Atlantic Institute of Education, a program coordinator in continuing education at Dalhousie University, a founding member of the Nova Scotia Coalition on Arts and Culture, as well as the Atlantic Officer for the Canadian Children's Book Centre.
The award is supported by members of the Brimer family along with donations from the general public.
Winners
- 1991 Joyce Barkhouse, Pit Pony
- 1992 Kevin Major, Eating Between the Lines
- 1993 Budge Wilson, Oliver's War
- 1994 Lesley Choyce, Good Idea Gone Bad
- 1995 Sheree Fitch, Mabel Murple
- 1996 Don Aker, Of Things Not Seen
- 1997 Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
- 1998 Kevin Major, The House of Wooden Santas
- 1999 Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring
- 2000 David Weale, The True Meaning of Crumbfest
- 2001 Janet McNaughton, The Secret Under My Skin
- 2002 Francis Wolfe, Where I Live
- 2003 Lesley Choyce, Shoulder the Sky
- 2004 Don Aker, The First Stone
- 2005 Alice Walsh, Pomiuk, Prince of the North
- 2006 Kevin Major, Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards
- 2007 Budge Wilson, Friendships
- 2008 K. V. Johansen, Nightwalker
- 2009 Jill MacLean, The Nine Lives of Travis Keating
- 2010 Jill MacLean, The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy
- 2011 Valerie Sherrard, The Glory Wind
- 2012 Susan White, The Year Mrs. Montague Cried
- 2013 Lisa Harrington, Live to Tell
- 2014 Jill MacLean, Nix Minus One
- 2015 Sharon E. McKay, The End of the Line
- 2016 Sharon E. McKay, Prison Boy
- 2017 Lesley Choyce, Into the Wasteland
- 2018 Charis Cotter, The Painting
- 2019 Susan Sinnott, Catching the Light
- 2020 Sheree Fitch, Everybody’s Different on EveryBody Street
- 2021 Tom Ryan, Keep This to Yourself
- 2022 Chad Lucas, Thanks a Lot, Universe
- 2023 Nicola Davison, Decoding Dot Grey
- 2024 Jack Wong, ''The Words We Share''