Sunburst 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.

List of past award winners

Year	Winner	Work title
2001	Sean Stewart	Galveston
2002	Margaret Sweatman	When Alice Lay Down with Peter
2003	Nalo Hopkinson	Skin Folk
2004	Cory Doctorow	A Place So Foreign and 8 More
2005	Geoff Ryman	Air
2006	Holly Phillips	In the Palace of Repose
2007	Mark Frutkin	Fabrizio's Return
2008	Adult: Nalo Hopkinson Young adult: Joanne Proulx	The New Moon's Arms Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet[1]
2009	Adult: Andrew Davidson Young adult: Cory Doctorow	The Gargoyle Little Brother[2]
2010	Adult: A. M. Dellamonica Young adult: Hiromi Goto	Indigo Springs Half World
2011	Adult: Guy Gavriel Kay Young adult: Paul Glennon	Under Heaven Bookweirder[3]
2012	Adult: Geoff Ryman Young adult: Catherine Austen	Paradise Tales All Good Children
2013	Adult: Martine Desjardins Young adult: Rachel Hartman	Maleficium Seraphina
2014	Adult: Ruth Ozeki Young adult: Charles de Lint	A Tale for the Time Being The Cats of Tanglewood Forest[4]
2015	Adult: Thomas King Young adult: Cecil Castellucci	The Back of the Turtle Tin Star[5]
2016	Adult: Gemma Files Young adult: Leah Bobet Short Story: Catherine A. MacLeod	Experimental Film An Inheritance of Ashes Hide and Seek[6]
2017	Adult: Claire Humphrey Young adult: Jonathan Auxier Short Story: A. C. Wise	Spells of Blood and Kin Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)[7]
2018	Adult: David Demchuk Young adult: Cherie Dimaline Short Story: Sandra Kasturi	The Bone Mother The Marrow Thieves The Beautiful Gears of Dying[8]
2019	Adult: Andromeda Romano Lax Young adult: Rachel Hartman Short Story: Senaa Ahmad	Plum Rains Tess of the Road The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls[9]

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

1. "2008 Sunburst Award Winners | The Sunburst Award Society". www.sunburstaward.org. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
2. "2009 Winners | The Sunburst Award Society". www.sunburstaward.org. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
3. Strock, Ian Randall (September 15, 2011). "2011 Sunburst Award Winners". SFScope.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011.
4. "2014 Sunburst Winners". The Sunburst Award Society.
5. Publications, Locus. "Locus Online News » 2015 Sunburst Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
6. Publications, Locus. "Locus Online News » 2016 Sunburst Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
7. http://www.sunburstaward.org/2017-sunburst-winners

External links

• Sunburst Award Web Site