2011 Sunburst Award Shortlist

Finalists for the tenth annual  Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced:

Adult:

• Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada)
• WWW: Watch, Robert J. Sawyer  (Penguin Canada)
• Chimerascope, Douglas Smith (ChiZine)
• A Taint in the Blood, S.M. Stirling (New American Library)
• Stealing Home, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)

Young Adult:

• Shapeshifter, Holly Bennett (Orca)
• Plain Kate, Erin Bow (Scholastic)
• The Painted Boy, Charles de Lint (Penguin)
• Bookweirder, Paul Glennon (Doubleday Canada)
• Dust City, Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Canada)

Winners will be announced on September 14, 2011, and each will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion featuring a sunburst logo designed by Marcel Gagné. Jurors for 2011 are Kate Freiman, Mark Leslie, Christopher Roden, and Alison Sinclair.

For more information, see The Sunburst Award Society.