2017 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic - Shortlists

The Sunburst Award Committee has announced the shortlists for the 2017 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. The winners will be announced in Fall 2017.

ADULT SHORTLIST

• Spells of Blood and Kin by Claire Humphrey [Thomas Dunn Books]
• The Witches of New York by Ami McKay [Knopf Canada]
• Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel [Del Rey]
• Necessity by Jo Walton [Tor Books]
• Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson [Tor Books]

YOUNG ADULT SHORTLIST

• Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier [Puffin Canada]
• Worlds of Ink and Shadow by Lena Coakley [HarperCollins]
• The Inn Between by Marina Cohen [Roaring Brook Press]
• Julia Vanishes by Catherine Egan [Doubleday Canada]
• The Skids by Ian Donald Keeling [ChiTeen]

SHORT STORY SHORTLIST

• K.T. Bryski, “La Corriveau” [Strange Horizons, October 2016]
• James Alan Gardner, “The Dog and the Sleepwalker” [Strangers Among Us, Laksa Media Groups Inc.]
• Helen Marshall, “Caro in Carno” [The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, Constable-Robinson UK & Running Press US]
• 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]

This year’s shortlists again highlight the eclecticism to be found in today's Canadian literature of the fantastic. Although the majority of those shortlisted are making their Sunburst Award debut, there are a number of return writers: Jonathan Auxier, James Alan Garner, Jo Walton (twice before) and Robert Charles Wilson have all been shortlisted before; in fact Robert Charles Wilson's work has been shortlisted an unprecedented seven times.

The Jury
The jurors for the 2017 award are Nancy Baker, Michel Basilières, Rebecca Bradley, Dominick Grace, and Sean Moreland.