Three works by Newfoundland and Labrador authors were honoured Thursday night at the Atlantic Book Awards in Dartmouth.

The annual awards ceremony promotes and acknowledges excellence in Atlantic Canadian writing and book publishing.

The Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association's Best Atlantic-Published Book Award was awarded to Creative Book Publishing for Island Kitchen: An Ode to Newfoundland by Chef Mark McCrowe with Sasha Okshevsky.

Jenny Higgins won the Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, for the book Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, which is published by Boulder Publications

The Margaret and John Savage First Book Award was given to Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome, a short story collection by Megan Gail Coles, published by creative Book Publishing.

St. John's hosted the awards in May 2012, which was the first time the awards gala was held outside of Halifax. There are plans to rotate the awards show throughout all of the Atlantic provinces in the coming years.