2017 Sunburst Awards Longlist

Sunburst medallion.

The 2017 longlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic was announced on May 29. Below are the works longlisted by the jury.

ADULT FICTION

  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Spawning Grounds [Knopf Canada]
  • Madeline Ashby, Company Town [Tor Books]
  • Jay Hosking, Three Years With the Rat [Hamish Hamilton]
  • Claire Humphrey, Spells of Blood and Kin [Thomas Dunne Books]
  • Ami McKay, The Witches of New York [Knopf Canada]
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things [Thomas Dunne Books]
  • Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants [Del Rey]
  • Jerome Stueart, The Angels of Our Better Beasts [ChiZine]
  • Jo Walton, Necessity [Tor Books]
  • Robert Charles Wilson, Last Year [Tor Books]

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

  • Jonathan Auxier, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard [Puffin Canada]
  • Karen Bass, The Hill [Pajama Press]
  • Kate Blair, Transferral [Dancing Cat Books]
  • Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow [HarperCollins]
  • Marina Cohen, The Inn Between [Roaring Brook Press]
  • Catherine Egan, Julia Vanishes [Doubleday Canada]
  • Ian Donald Keeling, The Skids [ChiTeen]
  • Arthur Slade, Flickers [HarperCollins]
  • Jeff Szpirglas, Sheldon Unger vs The Dentures of Doom [Star Crossed Press]
  • Moira Young, The Road to Ever After [Doubleday Canada]

SHORT STORY

The Sunburst Award official shortlist come out in late June. Sunburst Award winners will be announced in Fall 2017.

The jurors for the 2017 award are Nancy Baker, Michel Basilières, Rebecca Bradley, Dominick Grace, and Sean Moreland.

The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award celebrating the best in Canadian fantastika published during the previous calendar year. Winners receive a medallion that incorporates the Sunburst logo. Winners of both the Adult and Young Adult Sunburst Award also receive a cash prize of $1,000, while winners of the Short Story Sunburst Award receive a cash prize of $500.

The Sunburst Award takes its name from the debut novel of the late Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction.

[H/t SF Site News.]