2014 Sunburst Award shortlists announced

At the end of June, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. (Shortlists published at http://sunburstaward.org/content/2014-shortlists)

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, aim to recognize the novels or book-length collections of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants) of fantasy, with a cash award and a Sunburst medallion. Winners will be announced in September.

Here are this year's nominees in the Young Adult category:

Sorrow's Knot


by Erin Bow


Scholastic Inc.



The Cats of Tanglewood Forest


by Charles de Lint


Illustrated by Charles Vess


Little Brown Books




Homeland


by Cory Doctorow


Tom Doherty Associates




The Path of Names


by Ari Goelman


Scholastic Inc.




Urgle


by Meaghan McIsaac


Dancing Cat Books