2011 Aurora Award Winners

Winners for the 2011 Prix Aurora Awards have been announced. The awards were presented on November 20, 2011 during Canvention 31. Winners received trophies and the Best Novel winner received a $500 cash prize from SF Canada, the National Association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Best English Novel

• WWW: Watch, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
  
• Black Bottle Man, Craig Russell (Great Plains Publications)
• Destiny’s Blood, Marie Bilodeau (Dragon Moon Press)
• Stealing Home, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
  

Best English Short Story

• “The Burden of Fire”, Hayden Trenholm (Neo-Opsis #19)
• “Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle”, Suzanne Church (Tesseracts Fourteen)
• “The Envoy”, Al Onia (Warrior Wisewoman 3)
• “Touch the Sky, They Say”, Matt Moore (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, 11/10)
• “Your Beating Heart”, M. G. Gillett (Rigor Amortis)

Best English Poem / Song

• “The ABCs of the End of the World”, Carolyn Clink (A Verdant Green)
• “Let the Night In”, Sandra Kasturi (Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead)
• “Of the Corn: Kore’s Innocence”, Colleen Anderson (Witches & Pagans #21)
• “The Transformed Man”, Robert J. Sawyer (Tesseracts Fourteen)
• “Waiting for the Harrowing”, Helen Marshall (ChiZine 45)

Best English Graphic Novel

• Goblins, Tarol Hunt (goblinscomic.com)
• Looking For Group, Vol. 3, Ryan Sohmer & Lar DeSouza (lfgcomic.com)
• Stargazer, Volume 1, by Von Allan (Von Allan Studio)
• Tomboy Tara, Emily Ragozzino (tomboytara.com)

Best English Related Work

• The Dragon and the Stars, Derwin Mak & Eric Choi, eds. (DAW)
  
• Chimerascope, Douglas Smith (ChiZine)
• Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, Nancy Kilpatrick, ed. (EDGE)
• On Spec, Diane Walton, ed. (Copper Pig Writers Society)
• Tesseracts Fourteen, John Robert Colombo & Brett Alexander Savory, eds. (EDGE)

Best Artist (Professional and Amateur)

• Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, “Brekky” cover art (On Spec Fall)
• Christina Molendyk, Girls of Geekdom Calendar for Argent Dawn Photography
• Dan O’Driscoll, cover art for Stealing Home (Bundoran)
• Aaron Paquette, “A New Season” cover art (On Spec Spring)

For more information, see the Aurora Awards website. French-language awards categories are administered by SFSF Boréal; more information at their website.