Sylvain Neuvel

The shortlists for this year’s Sunburst Awards, recognizing the best in Canadian fantasy writing, have been revealed. A jury comprising Nancy Baker, Michel Basilières, Rebecca Bradley, Dominick Grace, and Sean Moreland selected the following finalists in three categories:

Short Story ($500)

• K.T. Bryski, “La Corriveau” (Strange Horizons)
• James Alan Gardner, “The Dog and the Sleepwalker” (Strangers Among Us, Laksa Media Groups)
• Helen Marshall, “Caro in Carno” (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, Constable-Robinson U.K./Running Press U.S.)
• A.C. Wise, “The Men from Narrow Houses” (Liminal Stories)
• A.C. Wise, “The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)” (The Dark)

Adult Fiction ($1,000)

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

YA Fiction ($1,000)

• Jonathan Auxier, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard (Puffin Canada)
• 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)

Winners will each be honoured with their cash prize and a Sunburst Medallion at a ceremony in the fall.