Some Canadian SF Awards

The winners of two sets of awards for Canadian science fiction and fantasy were announced recently.

The winners of the 2019 Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic are:

• Adult Fiction: Plum Rains, Andromeda Romano-Lax (Penguin Random House Canada)
• Young Adult Fiction: Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (Penguin Random House Canada)
• Short Story: “The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls”, Senaa Ahmad (Strange Horizons 1/15/18)

The winners of the 2019 Aurora Awards are:

• Best Novel: Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield, ChiZine Publications
• Best Young Adult Novel: Cross Fire: An Exo Novel by Fonda Lee, Scholastic Press
• Best Short Fiction: “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach” by Kelly Robson, Tor.com Publications

For a complete list of Aurora awards, see File 770.

I am still waiting for Robert Charles Wilson, Guy Gavriel Kay, or William Gibson to be nominated for or win the major Canadian literary award, the Giller Prize. I suppose I should include Margaret Atwood too; she will likely win next year for The Testaments, and she has a good shot at the Nobel.