Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Longlist

From the press release email:

The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce the 2018 longlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. This year’s lists are comprised of a mixture of established authors, talented newcomers, and several past nominees.  Below are the longlisted works, with links where available:

Adult Fiction

• Janie Chang, Dragon Springs Road [HarperCollins Canada] 
• Joey Comeau, Malagash [ECW]
• David Demchuk, The Bone Mother [Chizine Publications]  
• Cory Doctorow, Walkaway, [Tor/Forge]  
• Kristyn Dunnion, Tarry This Night [Arsenal Pulp] 
• Omar El Akkad, American War [Penguin Random House]  
• Terri Favro, Sputnik's Children [ECW]
• Barbara Gowdy, Little Sister [HarperCollins Canada] 
• Fonda Lee, Jade City [Little, Brown Book Group]
• Elan Mastai, All Our Wrong Todays [Penguin Random House]   
• Ahmad Danny Ramadan, The Clothesline Swing [Harbour Publishing]  
• Emma Richler, Be My Wolff [Penguin Random House]  
• Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster [Penguin Random House] 
• Adam Sternbergh, The Blinds [HarperCollins Canada]

Young Adult Fiction

• S.M. Beiko, Scion of the Fox [ECW]
• Kate Blair, Tangled Planet [Dancing Cat Books]
• Charis Cotter, The Painting [Penguin Random House]
• Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves [Dancing Cat Books]
• Catherine Egan, Julia Defiant [Penguin Random House]
• Ashley Graham, All the Stars Left Behind [Entangled Publishing]
• Fonda Lee, Exo [Scholastic]
• Lesley Livingston, The Valiant [HarperCollins Canada]
• Kari Maaren, Weave a Circle Round [Tor/Forge]
• Wendy Orr, Dragonfly Song [Allen and Unwin]
• Ursula Pflug, Mountain [Inanna Publications]

Short Story Fiction  

• Nathan Adler, "Valediction at the Star View Motel" [Love Beyond Body, Space and Time, Bedside Press]
• Rebecca Campbell, "On Highway 18" [The Magazine for Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October 2017]
• Peter Darbyshire, "Casual Miracles" [Has the World Ended Yet? Wolsak & Wynn]
• David Demchuk, "Dragoi" [The Bone Mother, ChiZine Publications]
• Kate Heartfield, "Not Valid for Spain" [49^th Parallels, Bundoran Press]
• Claire Humphrey, "Yellowcat" [Grain Magazine #44.3, Spring 2017]
• Sandra Kasturi, "The Beautiful Gears of Dying" [The Sum of Us, Laksa Media]
• Rich Larson, "Spiked" [Abyss & Apex, June 2017]
• Karen Lowachee, "Meridian" [Where the Stars Rise, Laksa Media]
• Rati Mehrotra, "Hacker's Faire" [Cast of Wonders #239, March 2017]
• Matt Moore, "Goodbye is that Time Between Now and Forever" [The Sum of Us, Laksa Media]
• Julie Paul, "The Expansion" [Chapbook, The Rusty Toque]
• Kate Story, "Animate" [Cli Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, Exile]
• Naru Dames Sundar, "The Weight of Sentience" [Shimmerzine #40, November 2017]
• Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, "Gone Flying" [The Sum of Us, Laksa Media]

The Sunburst Award official shortlist will be announced in late June. Sunburst Award winners will be announced in Fall 2018.

Novel Jury: Megan Crewe, Kate Heartfield, Dominik Parisien, Halli Villegas, and Heather Wood.

Short Story Jury: Candas Jane Dorsey, Emily Pohl-Weary, and Alexandra Renwick