Sunburst Award
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic (short: Sunburst Award ) is a Canadian literary award launched in 2001 . It is awarded to the best novels or short story collections from the entire field of fantasy published for the first time in English by Canadian authors last year .
The award was named after Phyllis Gotliebs debut novel "Sunburst"; Phyllis Gottlieb is one of the first contemporary Canadian SF writers whose works were published. The prize is 1000 Canadian dollars and a medallion with a sunburst logo specially designed for the award. The winners will be determined by a jury. The award ceremony takes place every autumn. The year in which the Sunburst Award is given corresponds to the year in which the prize was awarded.
At the same time, the Sunburst Award Society has been awarding the Copper Cylinder Award since 2012 based on a vote among its members .
Award winners
Two prizes have been awarded since 2008, each for adult and youth literature. Another prize has been awarded in the short story category since 2016.
- Adults
- 2019: Andromeda Romano Lax : Plum Rains
- 2018: David Demchuk : The Bone Mother
- 2017: Claire Humphrey : Spells of Blood and Kin
- 2016: Gemma Files : Experimental Film
- 2015: Thomas King : The Back of the Turtle
- 2014: Ruth Ozeki : A Tale for the Time Being
- 2013: Martine Desjardins : Maleficium
- 2012: Geoff Ryman : Paradise Tales
- 2011: Guy Gavriel Kay : Under Heaven
- 2010: AM Dellamonica : Indigo Springs
- 2009: Andrew Davidson : The Gargoyle
- 2008: Nalo Hopkinson : The New Moon's Arms
- 2007: Mark Frutkin : Fabrizio's Return
- 2006: Holly Phillips : In the Palace of Repose
- 2005: Geoff Ryman : Air
- 2004: Cory Doctorow : A Place So Foreign and 8 More
- 2003: Nalo Hopkinson : Skin Folk
- 2002: Margaret Sweatman : When Alice Lay Down with Peter
- 2001: Sean Stewart : Galveston
- Teenagers
- 2019: Rachel Hartman : Tess of the Road
- 2018: Cherie Dimaline : The Marrow Thieves
- 2017: Jonathan Auxier : Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
- 2016: Leah Bobet : An Inheritance of Ashes
- 2015: Cecil Castellucci : Tin Star
- 2014: Charles de Lint : The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
- 2013: Rachel Hartman : Seraphina
- 2012: Catherine Austen : All Good Children
- 2011: Paul Glennon : Bookweirder
- 2010: Hiromi Goto : Half World
- 2009: Cory Doctorow : Little Brother
- 2008: Joanne Proulx : Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
- Short story
- 2019: Senaa Ahmad : The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls
- 2018: Sandra Kasturi : The Beautiful Gears of Dying
- 2017: AC Wise : The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)
- 2016: Catherine A. MacLeod : Hide and Seek
Web links
- Sunburst Award website
- Sunburst Awards , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- Sunburst Award , overview in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database