2015 Sunburst Awards Short List
The jury’s short list for the 2015 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced:
Adult:
- The Troop, Nick Cutter (Pocket)
- The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King (HarperCollins)
- Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Picador)
- My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair)
- Will Starling, Ian Weir (Goose Lane)
Adult Honorable Mentions:
- The First Principles of Dreaming, Beth Goobie (Second Story)
- Gifts For the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
- Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor; Head of Zeus)
Young Adult:
- The Night Gardener, Jonathan Auxier (Abrams)
- Tin Star, Cecil Castellucci (Roaring Brook)
- A Breath of Frost, Alyxandra Harvey (Bloomsbury)
- Sophie, In Shadow, Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown)
- The Door in the Mountain, Caitlin Sweet (ChiTeen)
YA Honorable Mentions:
- Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Harper)
- Child of a Hidden Sea, A.M. Dellamonica (Tor)
- The Boundless, Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster)
Winners will be announced in the fall. Each winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted sunburst medallion. The jurors for the 2015 award are S.M. Beiko, Gerard Collins, Paula Johanson, Corey Redekop and Sherryl Vint. For more information, see the Sunburst Award Society.