Sunburst Awards Winners

Winners of this year's Sunburst Awards, for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, have been announced. The awards go to a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection published in previous calendar year. This year the awards are given in two categories: adult novel, and young adult novel.

The Sunburst Awards website has comments from the jury -- Timothy Anderson, Kelley Armstrong, Barbara Haworth-Attard, Dena Taylor and Robert Wiersema -- about the winning works. Winners and finalists are:

ADULT

The New Moon's Arms, Nalo Hopkinson (Warner)

Axis, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Darkness of the God, Amber Hayward (Edge)

Double-blind, Michelle Butler Hallett (Killick Press)

Wonderfull, William Neil Scott (NeWest Press)

YOUNG ADULT

Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, Joanne Proulx (Viking Canada)

Choices, Deborah Lynn Jacobs (Roaring Brook)

Darkwing, Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins Canada)

The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel, Drew Hayden Taylor (Annick Press)

Retribution, Carrie Mac (Puffin Canada)