Saturday 28 July 2012

Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

At the end of June, the Sunburst Award Society announced the shortlists for its two categories of Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.  

These awards, presented annually in the categories of Adult and Young Adult speculative fiction, aim to recognize the novels or book-length collections of Canadian writers (citizens or landed immigrants) of fantasy, with a cash award of $1000 (Can) and a Sunburst medallion. 

 

Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian science fiction, has been honoured with the naming of this award after her first novel, Sunburst, published in 1964 by Gold Medal.




The winners of the awards will be announced and presented in the fall in Toronto.  The majority of the nominees have been reviewed here at CanLit for LittleCanadians, and I urge you to read up on this great fantastic fiction before we are blessed with a new crop of exceptional speculative fiction from our Canadian YA writers.


 
Ultraviolet
by R. J. Anderson
Carolrhoda Lab
978-0-7613-7408-4
303 pp.
Ages 14+
2011 
 
All Good Children
by Catherine Austen
Orca Book Publishers
978-1-55469-824-0
300 pp.
Ages 14+
2011



The Summer of Permanent Wants
by Jamieson Findlay
Doubleday Canada
978-0-385-66928-3
241 pp.
Ages 10-14
2011


 
The Dead Kid Detective Agency
by Evan Munday
 ECW Press
987-1-55022-971-4
301 pp.
Ages 12-15
2011


 
Blood Red Road
by Moira Young
Doubleday Canada
978-0-385-67183-5
459 pp.
Ages 14+
2011

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