2019 Aurora Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Armed in Her Fashion, Kate Heartfield (ChiZine)

• One of Us, Craig DiLouie (Orbit)
• They Promised Me the Gun Wasn’t Loaded, James Alan Gardner (Tor)
• Graveyard Mind, Chadwick Ginther (ChiZine)
• The Quantum Magician, Derek Künsken (Solaris)
• Witchmark, C.L. Polk (Tor.com Publishing)

Best YA Novel

• WINNER: Cross Fire, Fonda Lee (Scholastic)

• Children of the Bloodlands, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
• Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, ‘Nathan Burgoine (Bold Strokes)
• The Sign of Faust, Éric Desmarais (Renaissance)
• Finding Atlantis, JM Dover (Evil Alter Ego)
• Timefall, Alison Lohans (Five Rivers)
• The Emerald Cloth, Clare C. Marshall (Faery Ink)
• Legacy of Light, Sarah Raughley (Simon Pulse)

Best Short Fiction

• WINNER: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Kelly Robson (Tor.com Publishing)

• “A Hold Full of Truffles”, Julie E. Czerneda (Tales from Plexis)
• “For A Rich Man to Enter”, Susan Forest (IGMS 4/18)
• Alice Payne Arrives, Kate Heartfield (Tor.com Publishing)
• “Critical Mass”, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders)

Best Graphic Novel

• WINNER: It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (http://itneverrainscomic.com/)

• Krampus Is My Boyfriend!, S.M. Beiko (https://www.smbeiko.com/)
• Woman World, Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Crash and Burn, Finn Lucullan & Kate Larking (Astres)
• FUTILITY: Orange Planet Horror, Rick Overwater & Cam Hayden (Coffin Hop)

Best Related Work

• WINNER: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, Dominik Parisien & Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, eds. (Uncanny)

• By the Light of Camelot, J.R. Campbell & Shannon Allen, eds. (EDGE)
• Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes, J.R. Campbell & Charles Prepolec, eds. (EDGE)
• Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders, Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, eds. (Laksa)
• We Shall Be Monsters, Derek Newman-Stille, ed. (Renaissance)

Best Poem/Song

• WINNER: “Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld”, Sarah Tolmie (On Spec #107)

• “Echos”, Shannon Allen (By the Light of Camelot)
• “Osiris”, Leah Bobet (Uncanny 11-12/18)
• “How My Life Will End”, Vanessa Cardui (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders)
• “Trips to Impossible Cities”, Sandra Kasturi (Amazing Stories Winter 2018)

Best Artist

• WINNER: Samantha M. Beiko, covers for Laksa Media

• Lily Author, cover art for Polar Borealis #8
• James F. Beveridge, cover art for Tyche Books
• Roger Czerneda, cover for Tales from Plexis
• Dan O’Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press
• Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, cartoons for Amazing Stories

Best Visual Presentation

• WINNER: Deadpool 2

• Bao
• Murdoch Mysteries, 2018 episodes
• Travelers, Season 3
• Wynonna Earp, Season 3

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• WINNER: “She Wrote It But…Revisiting Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing 35 Years Later“, Krista D. Ball (reddit.com/r/fantasy)

• “Travelling TARDIS“, Jen Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
• “Mars vs. Titan“, Ron S. Friedman (Quora)
• “Constructing the Future“, Derek Newman-Stille (Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction)
• “Adios Cowboy“, Adam Shaftoe (www.adamshaftoe.com)
• Books and Tea, Christina Vasilevski

Best Fan Organizational

• WINNER: Derek Künsken & Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can*Con

• Sandra Kasturi, chair Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Toronto
• Randy McCharles, chair, When Words Collide
• Matt Moore, Marie Bilodeau & Nicole Lavigne, co-chairs, Chiaroscuro Reading Series: Ottawa
• Sandra Wickham, chair, Creative Ink Festival

Best Fan Related Work

• WINNER: The Worldshapers, Edward Willett

• Business BFFs, S.M. Beiko & Clare C. Marshall
• ChiSeries Toronto, Kari Maaren
• Just Joshing, Joshua Pantalleresco
• Speculating Canada, Derek Newman-Stille