2018 Sunburst Awards Longlist
The longlists for the 2018 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic were announced June 11, 2018:
Adult Fiction
- Dragon Springs Road, Janie Chang (HarperCollins Canada)
- Malagash, Joey Comeau (ECW)
- The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (Chizine)
- Walkaway, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
- Tarry This Night, Kristyn Dunnion (Arsenal Pulp)
- American War, Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
- Sputnik’s Children, Terri Favro (ECW)
- Little Sister, Barbara Gowdy (HarperCollins Canada)
- Jade City, Fonda Lee (Little, Brown)
- All Our Wrong Todays, Elan Mastai (Dutton)
- The Clothesline Swing, Ahmad Danny Ramadan (Nightwood)
- Be My Wolff, Emma Richler (Knopf)
- Son of a Trickster, Eden Robinson (Knopf Canada)
- The Blinds, Adam Sternbergh (HarperCollins Canada)
Young Adult Fiction
- Scion of the Fox, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
- Tangled Planet, Kate Blair (Dancing Cat)
- The Painting, Charis Cotter (Tundra)
- The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline (Dancing Cat)
- Julia Defiant, Catherine Egan (Ember)
- All the Stars Left Behind, Ashley Graham (Entangled)
- Exo, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)
- The Valiant, Lesley Livingston (HarperCollins Canada)
- Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren (Tor)
- Dragonfly Song, Wendy Orr (Allen & Unwin)
- Mountain, Ursula Pflug (Inanna)
Short Story
- “Valediction at the Star View Motel”, Nathan Adler (Love Beyond Body, Space and Time)
- “On Highway 18”, Rebecca Campbell (F&SF 9-10/17]
- “Casual Miracles”, Peter Darbyshire (Has the World Ended Yet?)
- “Dragoi”, David Demchuk (The Bone Mother)
- “Not Valid for Spain”, Kate Heartfield (49th Parallels)
- “Yellowcat”, Claire Humphrey (Grain Spring ’17)
- “The Beautiful Gears of Dying”, Sandra Kasturi (The Sum of Us)
- “Spiked”, Rich Larson (Abyss & Apex 6/17)
- “Meridian”, Karen Lowachee (Where the Stars Rise)
- “Hacker’s Faire”, Rati Mehrotra (Cast of Wonders 3/17)
- “Goodbye is that Time Between Now and Forever”, Matt Moore (The Sum of Us)
- The Expansion, Julie Paul (Rusty Toque)
- “Animate”, Kate Story (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change)
- “The Weight of Sentience”, Naru Dames Sundar (Shimmerzine 11/17)
- “Gone Flying”, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (The Sum of Us)
The shortlist will be announced in late June and winners will be announced in Fall 2018. “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 2018 awards are Megan Crewe, Candas Jane Dorsey, Kate Heartfield, Dominik Parisien, Emily Pohl-Weary, Alexandra Renwick, Halli Villegas, and Heather Wood.
For more information, see the Sunburst Award Society.
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