2016 Sunburst Awards Longlist

The jury’s selections for the 2016 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic were announced June 8, 2016:

Adult Fiction

• Fifteen Dogs, André Alexis (Coach House)
• Arvida, Samuel Archibald (Biblioasis)
• The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart)
• Pillow, Andrew Battershill (Coach House)
• Cadon, Hunter, Rebecca Bradley (Loom)
• The Society of Experience, Matt Cahill (Wolsak & Wynn)
• Act of God, Jill Ciment (Pantheon)
• Ravenscrag, Alain Farah (House of Anansi)
• The Little Washer of Sorrows, Katherine Fawcett (Thistledown)
• Experimental Film, Gemma Files (ChiZine)
• Cauchemar, Alexandra Grigorescu (ECW)
• Lament for the Afterlife, Lisa L. Hannett (ChiZine)
• The Angel of Eden, D.J. McIntosh (Penguin Canada)
• Mind of the Phoenix, Jamie McLachlan (Penner)
• Signal to Noise, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
• Daydreams of Angels, Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada)
• The Damned, Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)
• The Other Side of Midnight, Simone St. James (New American Library)
• The Reckoning, Carsten Stroud (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
• The Affinities, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
• The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again, A.C. Wise (Lethe)

Young Adult Fiction

• An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet (Scholastic Canada)
• Sight Unseen, David Carroll (Scholastic Canada)
• Above, Jason Chabot (HarperTrophy)
• The Swallow: A Ghost Story, Charis Cotter (Tundra)
• The Unquiet, Mikaela Everett (HarperCollins Canada)
• Enslavement, Melinda Friesen (Rebelight)
• Magic Animal Adoption Agency: Clover’s Luck, Kallie George (HarperCollins Canada)
• Zeroboxer, Fonda Lee (Flux)
• The Nest, Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster)
• Hannah & the Wild Woods, Carol Anne Shaw (Ronsdale)
• Boo, Neil Smith (Knopf)
• The Dogs, Allan Stratton (Scholastic Canada)
• The Flame in the Maze, Caitlin Sweet (ChiZine)
• Black Feathers, Robert J. Wiersema (HarperCollins)

Short Story

• “With One Shoe”, Karen Abrahamson (Playground of Lost Toys)
• “La Héron”, Charlotte Ashley (F&SF 3-4/15)
• “The Glad Hosts”, Rebecca Campbell (Lackington’s #7)
• “Carnival of Colours”, Evelyn Deshane (Only Disconnect)
• “Stuck in the Past”, Mike Donoghue (Abyss & Apex #54)
• “The Harsh Light of Morning”, David J. Fuller (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
• “The Zzzombie Apocalypse”, Mark Hill (The Time It Happened)
• “Person to Person”, Patrick Johanneson (Daily Science Fiction 5/18/15)
• “Hide and Seek”, Catherine A. MacLeod (Playground of Lost Toys)
• “Lacrimosa”, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Nightmare 11/15)
• “Goodbye is a Mouthful of Water”, Dominik Parisien (Playground of Lost Toys)
• “Spider Moves the World”, Dominik Parisien (Lackington’s #6)
• “Two-Year Man”, Kelly Robson (Asimov’s 8/15)
• “Two Steps Forward”, Holly Schofield (Scarecrow)
• “Get the Message”, Peter Wendt (Second Contacts)

Finalists will be announced July 5, and winners on September 14.  Each winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted sunburst medallion. The jurors for the 2016 award are Timothy Anderson, Sylvie Bérard, Virginia O’Dine, Dale Sproule, and Myna Wallin.

For more information, see the Sunburst Award Society.