2023 Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame Inductees

Best Novel

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: The Hollow Boys, Douglas Smith (Spiral Path)

• 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)
• Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, Xiran Jay Zhao (Margaret K. McElderry)

Best Novelette/Novella

• WINNER: The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee (Subterranean)

• “A Sky and a Heaven”, Eric Choi (Just Like Being There)
• 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

• WINNER: “Broken Vow: The Adventures of Flick Gibson, Intergalactic Videographer”, Peter G. Reynolds (On Spec 120)

• “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)
• “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

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

• 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)
• Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens (www.goblinscomic.com)

Best Related Work

• WINNER (tie): The Astronaut Always Rings Twice, Shannon Allen & JR Campbell, eds. (Tyche)
• WINNER (tie): 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

•  WINNER: “Rapunzel in the Desert”, Melissa Yuan-Innes (On Spec Winter ’22)

• “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)

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration

• WINNER: Arboreality cover art by Rachel Yu Lobbenberg (Stelliform)

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

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• WINNER: 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

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

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

The CSFFA also announced the 2023 inductees to the CSFFA Hall of Fame:

• John Robert Colombo
• Michelle Sagara
• Clifford Samuels

The Aurora Awards are presented by the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA). Winners were announced in an online awards ceremony on August 19, 2023. For more information, see the CSFFA website.