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

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.