2024 Aurora Awards Ballot

Best Novel

• The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield (HarperVoyager)
• Bad Cree, Jessica Johns (HarperCollins Canada)
• Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice (Random House Canada)
• The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)

Best YA Novel

• The Stars of Mount Quixx, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline (Tundra)
• Flower and Thorn, Rati Mehrotra (Wednesday)
• The Grimmer, Naben Ruthnum (ECW)
• The Crystal Key: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 2, Douglas Smith (Spiral Path)

Best Novelette/Novella

• “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”, Nalo Hopkinson (Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror)
• I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave Media)
• Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)
• Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)
• Pluralities, Avi Silver (Atthis Arts)

Best Short Story

• “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P.A. Cornell (Fantasy Magazine 10/23)
• “The Dust Bowl Café”, Justin Dill (Augur 6/23)
• “Sink Your Sorrows to the Sea”, Chandra Fisher (Saltwater Sorrows)
• “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown 3/23)
• “If I Should Fall Behind”, Douglas Smith (F&SF, 9-10/23)

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

• The Secret of the Ravens,  Kyla Aiko and Joanna Cacao (Clarion)
• Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff (Wychwood)
• A Call to Cthulhu, Norm Konyu (Titan Nova)
• Cosmic Detective, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, and David Rubin (Image Comics)
• It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (It Never Rains)
• Carson of Venus, Maggie Lopez, Martin Powell, and Ronn Sutton (Sequential Pulp Comics)
• Atana and the Firebird, Vivian Zhou (HarperCollins)

Best Related Work

• GAME ON!,  Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi, editors, (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
• No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• On Spec Magazine
• Skin Thief: Stories, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)
• Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, editor, (Ansible)

Best Poem/Song

• “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream”, Ai Jiang (Uncanny 9-10/23)
• “Awakening”, Tiffany Morris (Nightmare 11/23)
• “predictive text”, Dominik Parisien (Augur 6/23)
• “Lying Flat”, Lynne Sargent (Strange Horizons 10/23)
• “Scarecrow”, David Shultz (Polar Starlight, 3/23)
• “As a, I want to, so I can”, Kelley Tai (Heartlines Spec, Spring/Summer ’23)

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration

• Augur Issue 6.1 cover art, Lorna Antoniazzi
• Green Fuse Burning cover art, Chief Lady Bird (Stelliform)
• The Passion of Ivan Rodriguez cover art, Kayla Kowalyk (Tyche)
• “Endless Library – Fantasy” Marco Marin (Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One)
• The Machines That Make Us cover art, Brent Nichols (Tyche)
• Tales & Feathers Issue 1 cover art, Jade Zhang
  

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• Maria’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup
• Polar Borealis Magazine
• Polar Starlight Magazine
• The Travelling TARDIS
• Young People Read Old SFF,

Best Fan Related Work

• ephemera Reading Series
• Scintillation 4
• Sip & Read / Sip & Social @ Librairie Saga Bookstore
• When Words Collide literary festival
• The Worldshapers Podcast