2014 Aurora Award Nominees

Finalists for the 2014 Prix Aurora Awards, celebrating the best Canadian SF/fantasy work, have been announced.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Best Novel – English

• A Turn of Light, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
• Tombstone Blues, Chadwick Ginther (Ravenstone)
• River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
• The Tattooed Witch, Susan MacGregor (Five Rivers)
• Red Planet Blues, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)

Best YA Novel – English

• The Rising, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
• The Lake and the Library, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
• The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Demon Gate, Marty Chan (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• Resolve, Neil Godbout (Bundoran)
• Out of Time, D.G. Ladroute (Five Rivers)
• Ink, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)

Best Short Fiction – English

• “Angela and Her Three Wishes”, Eileen Bell (The Puzzle Box)
• “Living Bargains”, Suzanne Church (When the Hero Comes Home 2)
• “The Gift”, Susan Forest (Urban Green Man)
• “The Awakening of Master March”, Randy McCharles (The Puzzle Box)
• “Ghost in the Machine”, Ryan McFadden (The Puzzle Box)
• “Green Man She Restless”, Billie Milholland (Urban Green Man)
• “A Bunny Hug for Karl”, Mike Rimar (Masked Mosaic, Canadian Super Stories)

Best Poem/Song – English

• “A City of Buried Rivers”, David Clink (The Literary Review of Canada 11/13)
• “Night Journey: West Coast”, Eileen Kernaghan (Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada)
• “The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid”, Helen Marshall (Postscripts to Darkness 11/13)
• “Lost”, Amal El-Mohtar (Strange Horizons 2/25/13)
• “Turning the Leaves”, Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 12/13)
• “Awake”, Peter Storey (Urban Green Man)

Best Graphic Novel – English

• Rock, Paper, Cynic, Peter Chiykowski (webcomic)
• Looking for Group, Lar DeSouza & Ryan Sohmer (webcomic)
• Wild Game: Sweet Tooth Vol. 6, Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
• Weregeek, Alina Pete (webcomic)

Best Related Work – English

• The Puzzle Box, The Apocalyptic Four (EDGE)
• Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, Samantha Beiko & Sandra Kasturi, eds. (ChiZine)
• Urban Green Man, Janice Blaine & Adria Laycraft, eds. (EDGE)
• Suzenyms, Susan MacGregor (suzenyms.blogspot.ca)
• On Spec  (Copper Pig Writers’ Society)

Best Artist

• Melissa Mary Duncan
• Erik Mohr
• Tanya Montini
• Dan O’Driscoll
• Apis Teicher

There were also nominees in fan/volunteer categories. For a complete list, see the Aurora Awards website.