2017 Sunburst Awards Longlist

The jury’s selections for the 2017 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic were announced May 29, 2017:

Adult Fiction

• The Spawning Grounds, Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Knopf Canada)
• Company Town, Madeline Ashby (Tor)
• Three Years With the Rat, Jay Hosking (Hamish Hamilton)
• Spells of Blood and Kin, Claire Humphrey (Thomas Dunne)
• The Witches of New York, Ami McKay (Knopf Canada)
• Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Thomas Dunne)
• Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel (Del Rey)
• The Angels of Our Better Beasts, Jerome Stueart (ChiZine)
• Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)
• Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Young Adult Fiction

• Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, Jonathan Auxier (Puffin Canada)
• The Hill, Karen Bass (Pajama)
• Transferral, Kate Blair (Dancing Cat)
• Worlds of Ink and Shadow, Lena Coakley (HarperCollins)
• The Inn Between, Marina Cohen (Roaring Brook)
• Julia Vanishes, Catherine Egan (Doubleday Canada)
• The Skids, Ian Donald Keeling (ChiTeen)
• Flickers, Arthur Slade (HarperCollins)
• Sheldon Unger vs The Dentures of Doom, Jeff Szpirglas (Star Crossed)
• The Road to Ever After, Moira Young (Doubleday Canada)

Short Story

• “Naïve Gods”, Brad C. Anderson (Lazarus Risen)
• “La Corriveau”, K.T. Bryski (Strange Horizons 10/3/16)
• “The Dog and the Sleepwalker”, James Alan Gardner (Strangers Among Us)
• “The Seven O’Clock Man”, Kate Heartfield (Clockwork Canada)
• “All That Robot…”, Rich Larson (Asimov’s 9/16)
• “Caro in Carno”, Helen Marshall (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu)
• “Until There is Only Hunger”, Michael Matheson (Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling)
• “The Night Stylist”, Peter Norman (Pulp Literature 8/16)
• “The Eye of The Swan”, Kelly Robson (Tor.com 10/11/16)
• “The Second Waltz”, Madeleine Thien (Catapult 10/17/16)
• “The Men from Narrow Houses”, A.C. Wise (Liminal Stories Spring/Summer 16)
• “The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)”, A.C. Wise (The Dark 7/16)

The shortlist will be announced in late June and winners will be announced in Fall 2017. “Winners receive a medallion that incorporates the Sunburst logo. Winners of both the Adult and Young Adult Sunburst Award also receive a cash prize of $1,000, while winners of the Short Story Sunburst Award receive a cash prize of $500.” The jurors for the 2017 awards are Nancy Baker, Michel Basilières, Rebecca Bradley, Dominick Grace, and Sean Moreland.

For more information, see the Sunburst Award Society.