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]
- 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]
- 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" [49th 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
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