2021 Aurora Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• A Stitch in Time, Kelley Armstrong (KLA Fricke)
• A Connecticut Gumshoe in King Arthur’s Court, Randy McCharles (Tyche)
• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• The Oppenheimer Alternative, Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer)

Best YA Novel

• The Gryphon’s Lair, Kelley Armstrong (Puffin Canada)
• Return to Atlantis, J.M. Dover (Evil Alter Ego)*
• Flights of Marigold, Susan Forest (Laksa)
• Hollow, Rhonda Parrish (Tyche)
• Dragon Assassin, Arthur Slade (Scholastic Canada)**
• Wall of Wishes, Suzy Vadori (Old Vines)

Best Novelette/Novella

• “The Joy in Wounding”, Charlotte Ashley (F&SF 11-12/20)***
• “The Immolation of Kev Magee”, L.X. Beckett (Clarkesworld 8/20)
• “An Important Failure”, Rebecca Campbell (Clarkesworld 8/20)
• “Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County”, Derek Künsken (Asimov’s 7-8/20)
• “How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar”, Rich Larson (Tor.com 1/15/20)
• “Go Fish”, Ian Rogers (Tor.com 4/15/20)
• “To Sail the Black”, A.C. Wise (Clarkesworld 11/20)

Best Short Story

• “The Bone-Stag Walks”, KT Bryski (Lightspeed 8/20)
• “Night Folk”, Barb Galler-Smith (Galaxy’s Edge 11/20)
• “All Cats Go to Valhalla”, Chadwick Ginther (Swashbuckling Cats)
• “Breathe”, Calvin D. Jim (Prairie Gothic)
• “So You Want to Be a Honeypot”, Kelly Robson (Uncanny 3-4/20)
• “Grass Gods”, Elizabeth Whitton (Prairie Gothic)

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

• Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures, S.M. Beiko, ed. (Renegade Arts)
• Krampus is My Boyfriend!, S.M. Beiko (https://www.smbeiko.com/)
• Crash and Burn, Kate Larking & Finn Lucullan (Astres)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (http://itneverrainscomic.com/)
• Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens (https://www.goblinscomic.org/)
• Northwest Resistance, Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson (Highwater)

Best Related Work

• PodCastle, Jen R. Albert & Cherae Clark, eds., host Setsu Uzumé & producer Peter Adrian Behravesh
• Augur #3.1 and 3.2, Kerry C. Byrne, Alexander De Pompa & Lawrence Stewen, eds.
• Prairie Gothic, Stacey Kondla, ed. (Prairie Soul)
• Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, Amanda Leduc (Coach House)
• Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas, Rhonda Parrish, ed. (Tyche)
• On Spec, Diane L. Walton, ed.

Best Poem/Song

• “Masquerade”, Colleen Anderson (On Spec #115)
• “The Death of the Gods”, Leah Bobet (Uncanny 1-2/20)
• “he scores”, Beth Cato & Rhonda Parrish (Star*Line Spring ’20)
• “Back Story”, David Clink (Strange Horizons 9/20)
• “Electra”, Y.M. Pang (Arsenika Winter ’20)
• “Arachnoid Cyst”, Dominik Parisien (This 3-4/20)
• “Hamilton Harbour”, Lynne Sargent (A Refuge of Tales)
• “Nidhog”, Jo Walton (The Book of Dragons)

Best Artist

• Lorna Antoniazzi, covers for Augur #3.1 and 3.2
• Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Flights of the Marigold
• Swati Chavda, art, maps, and covers for multiple publications
• Dan O’Driscoll, cover for Corona Burning
• Maia Kondla-Wolf, cover for Prairie Gothic

Best Visual Presentation

• Don’t Text Back
• Murdoch Mysteries, Season 13, Episodes 10-18
• Trickster, Episodes 1-6
• The Umbrella Academy
• Wynonna Earp, Season 4, Episodes 1-6

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• BCSFAzine #538-547, R. Graeme Cameron, ed.
• Clubhouse, R. Graeme Cameron (Amazing Stories)
• Polar Borealis #13-16, R. Graeme Cameron, ed.
• Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
• Young People Read Old SFF, James Davis Nicoll, ed.
• Random Musings, Robert J. Sawyer (BCSFAzine #539-547)

Best Fan Related Work

• ephemera reading series, KT Bryski & Jen R. Albert
• AugurCon, Kerry C. Byrne & Terese Mason Pierre
• 2020 Aurora Awards Ceremony, Mark Leslie Lefebvre & Liz Anderson
• When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair
• Speculating Canada, Derek Newman-Stille