Sunburst medallion.

The Sunburst Award jury has selected its long list for the 2015 awards.

The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic celebrates the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year.

Adult Category

• Pastoral by Andre Alexis
• The Broken Hours by Jaqueline Baker
• The Troop by Nick Cutter
• Consumed by David Cronenberg
• Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
• The First Principles of Dreaming by Beth Goobie
• Head Full of Mountains by Brent Hayward
• Irregular Verbs by Matthew Johnson
• The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
• Gifts For the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall
• Cloud by Eric McCormack
• Knife Fight and Other Struggles by David Nickle
• Emberton by Peter Norman
• Lockstep by Karl Schroeder
• Cycling to Asylum by Su J. Sokol
• Silence For the Dead by Simone St. James
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• My Real Children by Jo Walton
• Echopraxia by Peter Watts
• Will Starling by Ian Weir

Young Adult Category

• Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
• The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
• Gottika by Helaine Becker
• Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci
• The Voices in Between by Charlene Challenger
• Guardian by Natasha Deen
• Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica
• A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey
• Sophie, In Shadow by Eileen Kernaghan
• Seven Wild Sisters by Charles de Lint
• The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
• The Paper Sword by Robert Priest
• Zomboy by Richard Scrimger
• Radiant by Karina Sumner-Smith
• The Door in the Mountain by Caitlin Sweet
• Song of the Sword by Ed Willett

The shortlist will be announced in mid-June, and winners in the fall.

Sunburst Award winners receive a cash prize of $1,000 as well as a medallion which incorporates the Sunburst logo.

The jurors for the 2015 award are S.M. Beiko, Gerard Collins, Paula Johanson, Corey Redekop and Sherryl Vint.

Plans to launch a Sunburst Award for short stories, which had been announced for Fall 2015, have now been deferred to 2016.

The Sunburst Award Committee has announced the 2014 award winners:

2014 Sunburst Adult Award
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Penguin Group Canada)

2014 Sunburst Young Adult Award
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles de Lint (Little Brown Books)

Sunburst medallion.

Novels or novel-length collections of Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year are eligible for the Sunburst Award.

Winners receive a cash prize of C$1,000 and a medallion.

It is a juried award and this year’s jurors were Camille Alexa, Paul Glennon, Bob Knowlton, Nicole Luiken, and Derek Newman-Stille.

The Sunburst is named after the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, among the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction.

The finalists for the 2014 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced. The award recognizes Canadian writers of adult or young adult speculative fiction novel or book-length collection published during the previous calendar year.

Adult Shortlist

• Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (Grand Central Publishing)
• River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Group Canada)
• This Strange Way of Dying by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Exile Editions)
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (Penguin Group Canada)
• The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)

Young Adult Shortlist

• Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow (Scholastic Inc.)
• The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles de Lint, illustrated by Charles Vess (Little Brown Books)
• Homeland by Cory Doctorow (Tom Doherty Associates)
• The Path of Names by Ari Goelman (Scholastic Inc.)
• Urgle by Meaghan McIsaac (Cormorant Books)

Honourable Mention

• The n-Body Problem by Tony Burgess (Chizine Publications)
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)
• Oathbreaker’s Shadow by Amy McCulloch (Doubleday Canada)
• Wild Fell by Michael Rowe (Chizine Publications)
• Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts (Tachyon Publications)

Sunburst medallion.

The Sunburst is a juried award. The 2014 jurors are Camille Alexa, Paul Glennon, Bob Knowlton, Nicole Luiken, and Derek Newman-Stille.

Winners receive a C$1,000 cash award and a medallion. The Sunburst is named after the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, among the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction.

The 2013 Sunburst Award winners have been announced:

Adult Award
Maleficium by Martine Desjardins; translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel (Talonbooks)

Young Adult Award
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Doubleday Canada)

The award celebrates the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year. The winners receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a medallion bearing the Sunburst logo.

The jurors for the 2013 award were Rebecca Bradley, Tony Burgess, Shari Lapeña, Barbara Roden and Leon Rooke.

The finalists for the 2013 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced. The award recognizes Canadian writers of adult or young adult speculative fiction novel or book-length collection published during the previous calendar year.

Adult Shortlist

• Finton Moon by Gerard Collins (Killick Press)
• Maleficium by Martine Desjardins; translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel (Talonbooks)
• Over the Darkened Landscape by Derryl Murphy (Fairwood Press)
• The Blondes by Emily Schultz (Doubleday Canada)
• Westlake Soul by Rio Youers (ChiZine Publications)

Young Adult Shorlist

• The Green Man by Michael Bedard (Tundra Books)
• Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen)
• Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Doubleday Canada)
• Bright’s Light by Susan Juby (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Rebel Heart by Moira Young (Doubleday Canada)

The Sunburst is a juried award. The 2013 jurors are Rebecca Bradley, Tony Burgess, Shari Lapeña, Barbara Roden, Leon Rooke.

Winners receive a C$1,000 cash award and a medallion. The Sunburst is named after the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, among the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction.

Winners of the 2010 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been selected. The adult award went to Indigo Springs by A. M. Dellamonica. The young adult award winner was Half World by Hiromi Goto.

Winners of the award named after a novel by Canadian author Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), receive $1,000 and a medallion bearing the Sunburst logo, designed by Marcel Gagné.

Jurors for the 2010 awards were Don Bassingthwaite, Gemma Files, Susie Moloney, Ursula Pflug and Edward Willett.

Next year’s Sunburst Award jurors will be Julie Czerneda, Kate Freiman, Mark Leslie, Christopher Roden, and Alison Sinclair.

The full press release follows the jump.

[Thanks to John Mansfield for the story.]

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The Sunburst Award winners for 2009 have been announced. The adult award goes to The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson and the young adult award to Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.

The full press release appears after the jump.

[Via SFWA News.]

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