2017 Sunburst Awards Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2017 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic has been announced:
Adult Fiction
- Spells of Blood and Kin, Claire Humphrey (Thomas Dunne)
- The Witches of New York, Ami McKay (Knopf Canada)
- Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel (Del Rey)
- Necessity, Jo Walton (Tor)
- Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Young Adult Fiction
- Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, Jonathan Auxier (Puffin Canada)
- 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)
Short Story
- “La Corriveau”, K.T. Bryski (Strange Horizons 10/3/16)
- “The Dog and the Sleepwalker”, James Alan Gardner (Strangers Among Us)
- “Caro in Carno”, Helen Marshall (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu)
- “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)
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.
