Sunburst Award
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual literary award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection, first awarded in 2001. A young adult category was created in 2008, to differentiate from adult works; and a short fiction award as well. The award has been on hiatus since 2020.
History
[edit]The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst (1964).
The first award was given out in 2001. The award consists of a cash prize (CA$1,000 for novel length work, and CA$500 for short stories) and a medallion. The winner is selected by jury; a new jury is struck each year.
On 2 June 2020, the Sunburst Award Society announced the awards were going on a hiatus due to impacts related to COVID-19.[1]
Winners
[edit]General
[edit]Prior to 2008, the Sunburst Award was presented in a single category. In later years, it was broken down into two or three categories, including adult, young adult, and short story.
Year | Author | Result | Result | Ref. |
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2001 | Sean Stewart | Galveston | Winner | |
2002 | Margaret Sweatman | When Alice Lay Down with Peter | Winner | |
2003 | Nalo Hopkinson | Skin Folk | Winner | |
2004 | Cory Doctorow | A Place So Foreign and 8 More | Winner | |
2005 | Geoff Ryman | Air | Winner | |
2006 | Holly Phillips | In the Palace of Repose | Winner | |
2007 | Mark Frutkin | Fabrizio's Return | Winner |
Adult
[edit]Year | Author | Result | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | Nalo Hopkinson | The New Moon's Arms | Winner | [2] |
2009 | Andrew Davidson | The Gargoyle | Winner | [3][4] |
Jes Battis | Night Child | Finalist | [4][5] | |
Dave Duncan | The Alchemist’s Code | Finalist | [4][5] | |
Shari Lapena | Things Go Flying | Finalist | [4][5] | |
Jo Walton | Half a Crown | Finalist | [4][5] | |
2010 | A. M. Dellamonica | Indigo Springs | Winner | [6] |
Charles de Lint | The Mystery of Grace | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Cory Doctorow | Makers | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Karl Schroeder | The Sunless Countries | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Robert Charles Wilson | Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America | Finalist | [6][7] | |
2011 | Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | Winner | [8][9] |
Robert J. Sawyer | Watch | Finalist | [9][10] | |
Douglas Smith | Chimerascope | Finalist | [9][10] | |
S. M. Stirling | Taint in the Blood | Finalist | [9][10] | |
Hayden Trenholm | Stealing Home | Finalist | [9][10] | |
2012 | Geoff Ryman | Paradise Tales | Winner | [11] |
K. V. Johansen | Blackdog | Finalist | [11][12] | |
David Nickle | Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism | Finalist | [11][12] | |
Ryan Oakley | Technicolor Ultra Mall | Finalist | [11][12] | |
Michael Rowe | Enter, Night | Finalist | [11][12] | |
Caitlin Sweet | The Pattern Scars | Finalist | [11][12] | |
2013 | Martine Desjardins (trans. by Fred A. Reed and David Homel) | Maleficium | Winner | |
Gerard Collins | Finton Moon | Finalist | [13] | |
Derryl Murphy | Over the Darkened Landscape | Finalist | [13] | |
Emily Schultz | The Blondes | Finalist | [13] | |
Rio Youers | Westlake Soul | Finalist | [13] | |
2014 | Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | Winner | [14] |
2015 | Thomas King | The Back of the Turtle | Winner | [15] |
Nick Cutter | The Troop | Finalist | [15][16] | |
Emily St. John Mandel | Station Eleven | Finalist | [15][16] | |
Jo Walton | My Real Children | Finalist | [15][16] | |
Ian Weir | Will Starling | Finalist | [15][16] | |
2016 | Gemma Files | Experimental Film | Winner | [17] |
Katherine Fawcett | The Little Washer of Sorrows | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Signal to Noise | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Heather O'Neill | Daydreams of Angels | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Robert Charles Wilson | The Affinities | Finalist | [17][18] | |
2017 | Claire Humphrey | Spells of Blood and Kin | Winner | [19][20] |
Ami McKay | The Witches of New York | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Sylvain Neuvel | Sleeping Giants | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Jo Walton | Necessity | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Robert Charles Wilson | Last Year | Finalist | [20][21] | |
2018 | David Demchuk | The Bone Mother | Winner | [22][23] |
Omar El Akkad | American War | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Terri Favro | Sputnik’s Children | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Fonda Lee | Jade City | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Eden Robinson | Son of a Trickster | Finalist | [23][24] | |
2019 | Andromeda Romano Lax | Plum Rains | Winner | [25][26] |
Amber Dawn | Sodom Road Exit | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Kate Heartfield | Armed in Her Fashion | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Rich Larson | Annex | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Eden Robinson | Trickster Drift | Finalist | [26][27] | |
2020 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Gods of Jade and Shadow | Winner | [28][29] |
Scott R. Jones | Shout Kill Revel Repeat | Finalist | [29] | |
Helen Marshall | The Migration | Finalist | [29] | |
Karen McBride | Crow Winter | Finalist | [29] | |
Richard Van Camp | Moccasin Square Gardens | Finalist | [29] |
Short story
[edit]The Sunburst Award for Short Story was introduced in 2016.
Year | Author | Result | Result | Ref. |
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2016 | Catherine A. MacLeod | "Hide and Seek" (Playground of Lost Toys) | Winner | [17] |
Charlotte Ashley | "La Héron" (F&SF 3-4/15) | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Rebecca Campbell | "The Glad Hosts" (Lackington’s #7) | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Mike Donoghue | "Stuck in the Past" (Abyss & Apex #54) | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Kelly Robson | "Two-Year Man" (Asimov’s, August 2015) | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Peter Wendt | "Get the Message" (Second Contacts) | Finalist | [17][18] | |
2017 | A. C. Wise | "The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)" | Winner | [19][20] |
K. T. Bryski | "La Corriveau" (Strange Horizons 10/3/16) | Finalist | [20][21] | |
James Alan Gardner | "The Dog and the Sleepwalker" (Strangers Among Us) | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Helen Marshall | "Caro in Carno" (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu) | Finalist | [20][21] | |
A. C. Wise | "The Men from Narrow Houses" (Liminal Stories Spring/Summer ’16) | Finalist | [20][21] | |
2018 | Sandra Kasturi | "The Beautiful Gears of Dying" | Winner | [22][23] |
Rich Larson | "Spiked" (Abyss & Apex 6/17) | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Karin Lowachee | "Meridian" (Where the Stars Rise) | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Rati Mehrotra | "Hacker’s Faire" (Cast of Wonders 3/17) | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Kate Story | "Animate" (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change) | Finalist | [23][24] | |
2019 | Senaa Ahmad | "The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls" | Winner | [25][26] |
Madeline Ashby | "Domestic Violence" (Future Tense 3/26/18) | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Malon Edwards | "Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas" (Sword and Sonnet) | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Rich Larson | "Meat And Salt And Sparks" (Tor.com 6/6/18) | Finalist | [26][27] | |
A. C. Wise | "The Time Traveler’s Husband" (Shimmer 11/18) | Finalist | [26][27] | |
2020 | Rebecca Campbell | "The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest" | Winner | [28][29] |
Amal El-Mohtar | "Florilegia" (The Mythic Dream) | Finalist | [29] | |
Kate Heartfield | "The Inland Beacon" (Tesseracts Twenty-Two: Alchemy and Artifacts) | Finalist | [29] | |
Catherine Kim | "The Hundred Gardens" (Nat. Brut Spring ’19) | Finalist | [29] | |
Richard Van Camp | "Wheetago War II: Summoners" (Moccasin Square Gardens) | Finalist | [29] |
Young adult
[edit]Year | Author | Result | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Joanne Proulx | Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet | Winner | [2][30] |
2009 | Cory Doctorow | Little Brother | Winner | [3][4][30] |
Kelley Armstrong | The Summoning | Finalist | [4][5] | |
Charles de Lint | Dingo | Finalist | [4][5] | |
Eileen Kernaghan | Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural | Finalist | [4][5] | |
Max Turner | Night Runner | Finalist | [4][5] | |
2010 | Hiromi Goto | Half World | Winner | [6][30] |
Megan Crewe | Give Up the Ghost | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Maureen Garvie | Amy By Any Other Name | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Lesley Livingston | Wondrous Strange | Finalist | [6][7] | |
Arthur Slade | The Hunchback Assignment | Finalist | [6][7] | |
2011 | Paul Glennon | Bookweirder | Winner | [8][9][30] |
Holly Bennett | Shapeshifter | Finalist | [9][10] | |
Erin Bow | Plain Kate | Finalist | [9][10] | |
Charles de Lint | The Painted Boy | Finalist | [9][10] | |
Robert Paul Weston | Dust City | Finalist | [9][10] | |
2012 | Catherine Austen | All Good Children | Winner | [11][30] |
R. J. Anderson | Ultraviolet | Finalist | [11][12] | |
Jamieson Findlay | The Summer of Permanent Wants | Finalist | [11][12] | |
Evan Munday | The Dead Kid Detective Agency | Finalist | [11][12] | |
Moira Young | Blood Red Road | Finalist | [11][12] | |
2013 | Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | Winner | [30] |
Michael Bedard | The Green Man | Finalist | [13] | |
Cory Doctorow | Pirate Cinema | Finalist | [13] | |
Susan Juby | Bright’s Light | Finalist | [13] | |
Moira Young | Rebel Heart | Finalist | [13] | |
2014 | Charles de Lint | The Cats of Tanglewood Forest | Winner | [14][30] |
2015 | Cecil Castellucci | Tin Star | Winner | [15] |
Jonathan Auxier | The Night Gardener | Finalist | [15][16] | |
Alyxandra Harvey | A Breath of Frost | Finalist | [15][16] | |
Eileen Kernaghan | Sophie, In Shadow | Finalist | [15][16] | |
Caitlin Sweet | The Door in the Mountain | Finalist | [15][16] | |
2016 | Leah Bobet | An Inheritance of Ashes | Winner | [17] |
David Carroll | Sight Unseen | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Mikaela Everett | The Unquiet | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Kenneth Oppel | The Nest | Finalist | [17][18] | |
Neil Smith | Boo | Finalist | [17][18] | |
2017 | Jonathan Auxier | Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard | Winner | [19][20] |
Lena Coakley | Worlds of Ink and Shadow | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Marina Cohen | The Inn Between | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Catherine Egan | Julia Vanishes | Finalist | [20][21] | |
Ian Donald Keeling | The Skids | Finalist | [20][21] | |
2018 | Cherie Dimaline | The Marrow Thieves | Winner | [22][23] |
Charis Cotter | The Painting | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Fonda Lee | Exo | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Kari Maaren | Weave a Circle Round | Finalist | [23][24] | |
Wendy Orr | Dragonfly Song | Finalist | [23][24] | |
2019 | Rachel Hartman | Tess of the Road | Winner | [25][26] |
Sebastien de Castell | Spellslinger | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Regan McDonell | Black Chuck | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Rebecca Schaeffer | Not Even Bones | Finalist | [26][27] | |
Patrick Weekes | Feeder | Finalist | [26][27] | |
2020 | Allison Mills | The Ghost Collector | Winner | [28][29] |
Nafiza Azad | The Candle and the Flame | Finalist | [29] | |
Sara Cassidy | Nevers | Finalist | [29] | |
Aviaq Johnston | Those Who Dwell Below | Finalist | [29] | |
Jess Keating | Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray | Finalist | [29] |
Lists of nominees
[edit]For a complete and up to date listing of current and past long-listed and short-listed works, please see the Sunburst Award Website.
Eligibility
[edit]The Sunburst Award administration and juries use the broadest possible definition of speculative fiction for eligibility purposes: "science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, horror, surrealism, fantastique, fabulism, myth and legend, fantastical storytelling, and any other writing beyond the strictly realistic". To be eligible for the award, a work must be published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible.
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