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 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards: Winners announced

The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are presented by the Independent Publisher and Jenkins Group to honour North America's best children’s books, authors and illustrators. These selections celebrate "youthful curiosity, discovery and learning through books and reading." In 38 categories (with an additional 4 Spirit Awards), these children's books represent the publishing efforts of main-stream publishers as well as small presses, and even those of self-publishers.

Today, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award winners were announced and we'd like to offer our congratulations to our Canadian authors, illustrators and publishers who were awarded Moonbeam Children's Book Awards for 2016. They include the following three awards:



Pre-teen Fiction: Fantasy

BRONZE

The Griffin of Darkwood
by Becky Citra
Coteau Books













Young Adult Fiction: Fantasy/Sci-Fi

SILVER 

Gatekeeper
by Natasha Deen
Great Plains Teen Fiction

Young Adult Fiction: Historical/Cultural

GOLD

Convictions
by Judith Silverthorne
Coteau Books

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 Aurora Awards: Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards winners

The 2014 Auroras, a.k.a. Aurora Award and Prix Aurora, Canada's Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards since 1980, were recently awarded by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). 

Awards were presented in ten categories this year:

1. Best Novel
2. Best YA Fiction
3. Best Short Fiction
4. Best Poem / Song
5. Best Graphic Novel
6. Best Related Work
7. Best Artist
8. Best Fan Music
9. Best Fan Organizational
10. Best Fan Related Work

The nominees for the YA award were announced in May, with voting extended to September.  These were the nominated titles:

Best English YA (Young Adult) Novel

The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate 

by Marty Chan

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Ink 

by Amanda Sun

Harlequin Teen

The Lake and the Library 

by S.M. Beiko

ECW Press

Out of Time 

by D. G. Laderoute

Five Rivers Publishing

Resolve 

by Neil Godbout

Bundoran Press

The Rising 

by Kelley Armstrong

Doubleday Canada 

 

The winner of the 2014 Aurora Award for Young Adult Fiction, presented at Canvention 34 in Vancouver on October 3, 2014 is:

Kelley Armstrong

for 

The Rising

Dark Rising Book 3

Doubleday Canada

432 pp.

Ages 12+

2013

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

2013 Aurora Awards (Prix Aurora) for Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy

The 2013 Auroras, a.k.a. Aurora Award and Prix Aurora, Canada's Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards since 1980, were recently awarded by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). 

Awards are presented in eleven categories:

1. Novel
2. YA Fiction
3. Short Fiction
4. Poem / Song
5. Graphic Novel
6. Related Work
7. Artist
8. Fan Publication
9. Fan Filk
10. Fan Organizational
11. Fan Related Work

The nominees for the YA award were announced in May, with voting extended to September.  These were the nominated titles:

Above
by Leah Bobet
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic

The Calling 
by Kelley Armstrong
Doubleday Canada

Dissolve 
by Neil Godbout
Bundoran Press

Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero 
by Michell Plested
Five Rivers

Pirate Cinema 
by Cory Doctorow
Tor Teen

Under My Skin 
by Charles de Lint
Razorbill Canada 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The winner of the 2013 Aurora Award for Young Adult Fiction, presented at Can-Con in Ottawa, is

Charles de Lint
 

for 

 

Under My Skin 

The Wildings, Book One

Razorbill Canada

978-0670065332

416 pp.

Ages 12+

2012