2023 Aurora Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• The Embroidered Book, Kate Heartfield (HarperVoyager)
• All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada)
• The Void Ascendant, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (HarperCollins)

Best YA Novel

• Black Hole Radio – Ka’Azula, Ann Birdgenaw (DartFrog)
• Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, Rati Mehrotra (Wednesday Books)
• Ghostlight, Kenneth Oppel (Puffin Canada)
• The Hollow Boys, Douglas Smith (Spiral Path)
• Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao (Margaret K. McElderry)

Best Novelette/Novella

• “A Sky and a Heaven”, Eric Choi (Just Like Being There)
• The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee (Subterranean)
• Even Though I Knew the End, C.L. Polk (Tordotcom)
• The Tiger Came to the Mountains, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Amazon Original Stories)
• High Times in the Low Parliament, Kelly Robson (Tordotcom)

Best Short Story

• “The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing, or A for Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro”, Geoffrey W. Cole (Clarkesworld 1/22)
• “A New Brave World”, Eric Choi (Brave New Worlds)
• “Schrödinger’s Cats”, Wayne Cusack (Polar Borealis 22)
• “Douen”, Suzan Palumbo (The Dark 3/22)
• “Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer”, Peter G. Reynolds (On Spec 120)
• “We Are the Thing That Lives on the Moon”, Gillian Secord (Fireside 3/22)
• “Big Trouble in Droidtown”, Hayden Trenholm (The Astronaut Always Rings Twice)
•  “Green Witch”, Elizabeth Whitton (Prairie Witch)

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

• Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff (www.wychwoodcomic.com)
• Birds of Maine, Michael DeForge (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques (questionablecontent.net)
• Cupcake War Machine, Marika Kapogeorgakis (cupcakewarmachine.thecomicseries.com)
• Mistress of the Winds, Michèle Laframboise (Echofictions)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)
• Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens (www.goblinscomic.com)

Best Related Work

• The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, eds. (Tyche)
• Nothing Without Us Too, Cait Gordon & Talia C. Johnson, eds. (Renaissance)
• Prairie Witch, Stacey Kondla, ed. (Prairie Soul)
• Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, Don Miasek, ed. (TDotSpec)
• On Spec issues 119, 120, and 121, Diane Walton, managing editor (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)

Best Poem/Song

• “After the Apocalypse”, Colleen Anderson (NewMyths 12/22)
• “Three Herons”, Geoffrey W. Cole (Polar Starlight 5)
• “Ghost Stories”, James Grotkowski (Polar Starlight 6)
• “a sinkhole invites a street to consider its future”, Dominik Parisien (Uncanny 1-2/22)
• “Poltergeist”, Rhonda Parrish (Star*Line Spring ’22)
• “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny 5-6/22)
• “The Wolf of Your Passions”, Lynne Sargent (Augur 5.2)
•  “Rapunzel in the Desert”, Melissa Yuan-Innes (On Spec Winter ’22)

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration

• “The World We Left Behind” by Swati Chavda (On Spec Spring ’22)
• The Astronaut Always Rings Twice cover art by Kayla Kowalyk (Tyche)
• Arboreality cover art by Rachel Yu Lobbenberg (Stelliform)
• Birthday of the Unicorn cover art by Marco Marin (TdotSpec)
• Weird Fishes cover art by Julia Louise Pereira (Stelliform)

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• Polar Borealis issues 21, 22, and 23, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
• JenEric Movie Reviews, Éric Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
• The Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais (JenEric Designs)
• Young People Read Old SFF, James Davis Nicoll, ed. (youngpeoplereadoldsff.com)
• Polar Starlight issues 5, 6, and 7, edited by Rhea E. Rose

Best Fan Related Work

• ephemera Reading Series, KT Bryski & Jen R. Albert, co-chairs
• Augurcon, Terese Mason Pierre & Kerry C. Byrne, co-directors, Toria Liao, operations director
• Can*Con, Marie Bilodeau & Derek Künsken, co-chairs
• When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair
• The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett