Annual literary award
'The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection.
History
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 ($1,000 Canadian for novel length work, and $500 Canadian for short stories) and a medallion. The winner is selected by jury; a new jury is struck each year.
On June 2, 2020, the Sunburst award society announced the awards were going on a hiatus due to impacts related to COVID-19.[1]
Winners
General
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.
General Sunburst Award winners Year | Author | Result | Result | Ref. |
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
Short story
The Sunburst Award for Short Story was introduced in 2016.
Sunburst Award for Short Story winners and finalists Year | Author | Result | Result | Ref. |
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
Lists of nominees
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
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.
References
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