2014 Sunburst Shortlist Announced

Finalists for the 14th annual Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced:

Adult

• Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central)
• River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada)
• This Strange Way of Dying, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Exile Editions)
• A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Penguin Canada)
• The Demonologist, Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)

Young Adult

• Sorrow’s Knot, Erin Bow (Scholastic)
• The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, Charles de Lint (Little, Brown)
• Homeland, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
• The Path of Names, Ari Goelman (Scholastic)
• Urgle, Meaghan McIsaac (Cormorant)

Honorable Mentions

• The n-Body Problem, Tony Burgess (Chizine)
• The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)
• The Oathbreaker’s Shadow, Amy McCulloch (Doubleday Canada)
• Wild Fell, Michael Rowe (ChiZine)
• Beyond the Rift, Peter Watts (Tachyon)

Winners will be announced in fall 2014, and each will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion featuring a sunburst logo. Jurors for 2014 are Camille Alexa, Paul Glennon, Bob Knowlton, Nicole Luiken, and Derek Newman-Stille.

For more information, see The Sunburst Award Society.