2017 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

In July, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its three categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, also known as the Copper Cylinder award.

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, plus a category of Short Story, aim to recognize the speculative fiction of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants), with a cash award and a Sunburst medallion. Winners were just announced this week.

Here were this year's nominees in the

Young Adult category

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin Canada

Worlds of Ink and Shadow
by Lena Coakley
HarperCollins

The Inn Between
by Marina Cohen
Roaring Brook Press

Reviewed here

Julia Vanishes
by Catherine Egan
Doubleday Canada

Reviewed here

The Skids
by Ian Donald Keeling
ChiTeen

This year's 

WINNER 

in the Young Adult category 

is


The Skids

by Ian Donald Keeling
ChiTeen/ChiZine
978-1-77148-385-8
287 pp.
Ages 12-15
2016

2016 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Lit of the Fantastic: YA nominees and winner

Earlier this year, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its three categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, plus a new category of Short Story, aim to recognize the speculative fiction of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants), with a cash award and a Sunburst medallion. Winners were announced in September.

Here were this year's nominees in the

Young Adult category:

An Inheritance of Ashes 
by Leah Bobet
Scholastic Canada

Sight Unseen
by David Carroll
Scholastic Canada

The Unquiet
by Mikaela Everett
HarperCollins

The Nest 
by Kenneth Oppel
HarperCollins

Boo
by Neil Smith
Knopf

This year's 

WINNER 

in the Young Adult category 

is


An Inheritance of Ashes

by Leah Bobet
Scholastic Canada
978-0544281110
388 pp.
Ages 12+
2015


Reviewed here

2015 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic: winners announced!

Yesterday the Sunburst Award Society announced the winners for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic selected from its shortlists published at http://www.sunburstaward.org/2015-sunburst-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.

This year's 

WINNER 

in the Young Adult category 

is

Tin Star

by Cecil Castellucci

Roaring Brook Press

2014

This is what the jury for the Sunburst Award had to say about Tin Star and author Cecil Castellucci:

Tin Star is a gritty, compact science fiction novel that travels far beyond the usual orphan tropes of much young adult fiction. Tula is a teenaged girl overwrought with thoughts of revenge after her parents are murdered. Left behind on a shabby space station populated with all manner of alien life, Tula must learn to fend for herself if she is to survive. Castellucci handles notions of cultural difference with a deft hand, moving Tin Star beyond the sort of human-centeredness typical of traditional space operas. The spare prose paints a vivid picture of Tula's struggles between her desire for vengeance and her yearning for a life beyond grief, and her refusal to view human manners as a default form of "normal" is reminiscent of the best of science-fiction such as Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness. A powerful, melancholy, and ultimately surprising work, Tin Star is a coming-of-age tale that will resonate with any reader with a pulse. 

Cecil Castellucci is the author of young adult books and graphic novels including Boy Proof; The Plain Janes; First Day on Earth; The Year of the Beasts; Stone in the Sky and the Eisner nominated Odd Duck. Castellucci is the Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus, a two time MacDowell Fellow, and the founding YA Editor at the LA Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles.

(Retrieved from http://www.sunburstaward.org/node/160 on October 6, 2015)

2015 Sunburst Awards for Can Lit of the Fantastic: Shortlists announced

Two days ago, 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://www.sunburstaward.org/2015-sunburst-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:

The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Puffin

Tin Star
by Cecil Castellucci
Roaring Brook Press

A Breath of Frost
by Alyxandra Harvey
Bloomsbury Press

Sophie, In Shadow
by Eileen Kernaghan
Thistledown Press

The Door in the Mountain
by Caitlin Sweet
ChiTeen

Congratulations to all nominees!

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

The 2013 Sunburst Fantasy Award shortlists announced

The Sunburst Award Society recently announced the shortlists for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.  

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 of $1000 (Can) and a Sunburst medallion. 

 

Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, has been honoured with the naming of this award after her first novel, Sunburst, published in 1964 by Gold Medal.

The winners of the awards will be announced and presented in the fall in Toronto.  While there are only 5 titles nominated on each short-list (only the young adult list is shared here), the Sunburst Award site has lists of speculative fiction from different years.  It's a key website to find your next great CanLit fantasy read.

The Green Man
by Michael Bedard
Tundra Books

Pirate Cinema
by Cory Doctorow
Tor Teen

Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
Doubleday Canada

Reviewed on April 14, 2013 at CanLit for LittleCanadians.

Bright’s Light
by Susan Juby
HarperCollins

Rebel Heart
by Moira Young
Doubleday Canada

Reviewed November 24, 2012 at CanLit for LittleCanadians.

Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

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.  

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 of $1000 (Can) and a Sunburst medallion. 

 

Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, has been honoured with the naming of this award after her first novel, Sunburst, published in 1964 by Gold Medal.

The winners of the awards will be announced and presented in the fall in Toronto.  The majority of the nominees have been reviewed here at CanLit for LittleCanadians, and I urge you to read up on this great fantastic fiction before we are blessed with a new crop of exceptional speculative fiction from our Canadian YA writers.

 

Ultraviolet

by R. J. Anderson

Carolrhoda Lab

978-0-7613-7408-4

303 pp.

Ages 14+

2011 

Reviewed on January 9, 2012

 

All Good Children

by Catherine Austen

Orca Book Publishers

978-1-55469-824-0

300 pp.

Ages 14+

2011

Reviewed on January 3, 2012

The Summer of Permanent Wants

by Jamieson Findlay

Doubleday Canada

978-0-385-66928-3

241 pp.

Ages 10-14

2011

 

The Dead Kid Detective Agency

by Evan Munday

 ECW Press

987-1-55022-971-4

301 pp.

Ages 12-15

2011

 

Blood Red Road

by Moira Young

Doubleday Canada

978-0-385-67183-5

459 pp.

Ages 14+

2011

Reviewed on December 27, 2012