Ending a four-year hiatus, the Sunburst Award Society has announced the return of the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
According to a press release, “the pause has allowed the volunteer-run Sunburst Award Society to restructure the award and offer increased prize money.” Submissions open October 1, 2024.
Since its inception in 2001, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic has raised the public’s awareness of works of speculative literature and honoured deserving works through its prestigious awards program. Over two hundred and twenty-five works have been acknowledged for their contribution to the arts in Canada, and thirty-eight truly outstanding authors have also benefited from monetary recognition.
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.
[Based on a press release.]
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I see that the new submission guidelines state that ‘The work must be a novel, or novel-length short story collection’. This means that individual short stories are no longer under consideration while the former division between adult and young adult books is also gone.