2020 Sunburst Awards Longlist
The longlists for the 2020 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic were announced June 8, 2020:
Adult Fiction
- Days by Moonlight, André Alexis (Coach House)
- Gamechanger, L.X. Beckett (Tor)
- The Occult Persuasion and the Anarchist’s Solution, Lisa de Nikolits (Inanna)
- Even That Wildest Hope, Seyward Goodhand (Invisible)
- The Weight of Snow, Christian Guay-Poliquin (Talonbooks)
- Shout Kill Revel Repeat, Scott R. Jones (Trepidatio)
- The Migration, Helen Marshall (Random House Canada)
- Crow Winter, Karen McBride (HarperAvenue)
- Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Island, Johanna Skibsrud (Hamish Hamilton)
- Moccasin Square Gardens, Richard Van Camp (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Lent, Jo Walton (Tor)
Young Adult Fiction
- The Candle and the Flame, Nafiza Azad (Scholastic)
- Nevers, Sara Cassidy (Orca)
- Summerwood/Winterwood, E.L. Chen (ChiZine Publications)
- Rat Rule 79, Rivka Galchen (Yonder)
- Those Who Dwell Below, Aviaq Johnston (Inhabit Media)
- Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray, Jess Keating (Scholastic Inc.)
- The Changeling of Fenlen Forest, Katherine Magyarody (Great Plains Publications)
- Shantallow, Cara Martin (DCB)
- The Ghost Collector, Allison Mills (Annick Press)
- The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim: Demon, Shane Peacock (Penguin Teen)
- Master of the World, Edward Willett (DAW)
Short Story
- “Cleaning House in Ithaca”, Leslie Brown (Tesseracts Twenty-Two: Alchemy and Artifacts)
- “When the White Bird Sings”, K.T. Bryski (Augur 2.2)
- “The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest”, Rebecca Campbell (F&SF 5-6/19)
- “Roots and Shoots”, Laura DeHaan (Augur 2.1)
- “Florilegia”, Amal El-Mohtar (The Mythic Dream)
- “Cheating the Devil at Solitaire”, Chadwick Ginther (On Spec 12/19)
- “Katabasis”, Catherine George (Augur 2.3)
- “The Brightest Lights of Heaven”, Maria Haskins (Fireside 7/19)
- “Lake of Dreams”, Brent Hayward (Broken Sun, Broken Moon)
- “The Inland Beacon”, Kate Heartfield (Tesseracts Twenty-Two: Alchemy and Artifacts)
- “Revenge”, Thomas Anguti Johnston (Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories)
- “The Hundred Gardens”, Catherine Kim (Nat. Brut Spring ’19)
- “The Stone Alphabet”, Catherine MacLeod (Earth: Giants, Golems, and Gargoyles)
- “Wheetago War II: Summoners”, Richard Van Camp (Moccasin Square Gardens)
- “How the Trick is Done”, A.C. Wise (Uncanny 7-8/19)
The shortlist will be announced in July and winners will be announced in September. “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 2020 awards are Peter Darbyshire, Kristyn Dunnion, Omar El Akkad, Michelle Butler Hallett, John Jantunen, Michael Johnstone, Ursula Pflug, and Sarah Tolmie.
For more information, see the Sunburst Award Society.
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