2024 Aurora Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: 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

• WINNER: Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline (Tundra)

• The Stars of Mount Quixx, S.M. Beiko (ECW)
• 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

• WINNER: Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee (Tordotcom)

• “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”, Nalo Hopkinson (Out There Screaming)
• I AM AI, Ai Jiang (Shortwave Media)
• Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris (Stelliform)
• Pluralities, Avi Silver (Atthis Arts)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown)

• “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)
• “If I Should Fall Behind”, Douglas Smith (F&SF 9-10/23)

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

• WINNER: A Call to Cthulhu, Norm Konyu (Titan Nova)

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

Best Related Work

• WINNER: Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)

• GAME ON!,  Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi, eds. (Zombies Need Brains)
• No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed (Undertow)
• On Spec
• Skin Thief: Stories, Suzan Palumbo (Neon Hemlock)

Best Poem/Song

• WINNER: “Awakening”, Tiffany Morris (Nightmare 11/23)

• “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream”, Ai Jiang (Uncanny 9-10/23)
• “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

• WINNER: Augur Issue 6.1 cover art by Lorna Antoniazzi

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

Best Fan Writing and Publications

• WINNER: Polar Borealis

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

Best Fan Related Work

• WINNER: ephemera Reading Series

• Scintillation 4
• Sip & Read / Sip & Social at Librairie Saga Bookstore
• When Words Collide literary festival
• The Worldshapers podcast