2015 Sunburst Awards finalists announced
Monday, June 22, 2015 |
The Sunburst Award Society has
announced the shortlists for the 2015 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in
Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, which honours speculative fiction
in three categories: adult, young adult and short story.
The five short-listed works in the adult category are:
The Troop by Nick Cutter (Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster)
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd)
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd)
My Real Children by Jo Walton (Tor Books)
Will Starling by Ian Weir (Goose Lane Editions)
Honourable Mentions:
The First Principles of Dreaming by Beth Goobie (Second Story Press)
Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (ChiZine Publications)
Echopraxia by Peter Watts (Tor Books)
The five short-listed works in the young adult category are:
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (Amulet Books)
Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci (Roaring Brook Press)
A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey (Bloomsbury Press)
Sophie, In Shadow by Eileen Kernaghan (Thistledown Press)
The Door in the Mountain by Caitlin Sweet (ChiTeen)
Honourable Mentions:
Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica (Tor Books)
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel (Harper Trophy Canada)
The jurors for the 2015 award are S.M. Beiko, Gerard Collins, Paula Johanson, Corey Redekop and Sherryl Vint.
The winner in each category will receive a cash prize of $1,000 as well as a distinctive Sunburst medallion.
Winners will be announced in the fall of 2015.
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