Sunburst Award Longlist

Congratulations to the authors who find themselves on the 2017 longlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.

From their press release:
ADULT FICTION:

• Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Spawning Grounds [Knopf Canada]
• Madeline Ashby, Company Town [Tor Books]
• Jay Hosking, Three Years With the Rat [Hamish Hamilton]
• Claire Humphrey, Spells of Blood and Kin [Thomas Dunne Books]
• Ami McKay, The Witches of New York [Knopf Canada]
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things [Thomas Dunne Books]
• Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants [Del Rey]
• Jerome Stueart, The Angels of Our Better Beasts [ChiZine]     
• Jo Walton, Necessity [Tor Books]
• Robert Charles Wilson, Last Year [Tor Books]

YOUNG ADULT FICTION:

• Jonathan Auxier, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard [Puffin Canada]
• Karen Bass, The Hill [Pajama Press]
• Kate Blair, Transferral [Dancing Cat Books]
• Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow [HarperCollins]
• Marina Cohen, The Inn Between [Roaring Brook Press]
• Catherine Egan, Julia Vanishes [Doubleday Canada]
• Ian Donald Keeling, The Skids [ChiTeen]
• Arthur Slade, Flickers [HarperCollins]
• Jeff Szpirglas, Sheldon Unger vs The Dentures of Doom [Star Crossed Press]
• Moira Young, The Road to Ever After [Doubleday Canada]

SHORT STORY:

• Brad C. Anderson, “Naïve Gods” [Lazarus Risen, Bundoran Press]
• K.T. Bryski, “La Corriveau” [Strange Horizons, October 2016]
• James Alan Gardner, “The Dog and the Sleepwalker” [Strangers Among Us, Laksa Media Groups Inc.]
• Kate Heartfield, “The Seven O'Clock Man” [Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction, Exile Editions]
• Rich Larson, “All That Robot...” [Asimov's, September 2016]
• Helen Marshall, “Caro in Carno” [The Mammoth Book of Original Cthulhu, Constable-Robinson]
• Michael Matheson, “Until There is Only Hunger” [Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Apex]
• Peter Norman, “The Night Stylist” [Pulp Literature, Issue 12]
• Kelly Robson, “The Eye of The Swan” [Tor.com, October 2016]
• Madeleine Thien, “The Second Waltz” [Catapult, June 2016]
• A.C. Wise, “The Men from Narrow Houses” [Liminal Stories, #1]
• A.C. Wise, “The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)” [The Dark, #14]

Learn more about the award on their website.