Category: Awards
On Spec Magazine Wins 9th Aurora Award
“Zee” Shortlisted for The Janet Savage Blachford Prize
Silvia Moreno-Garcia wins August Derleth Award
Heartiest Congratulations to SF Canada member Silvia Moreno-Garcia! She just won the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. This year’s award-winner is Mexican Gothic, which spent an impressive 31 weeks on the Los Angeles Times best-sellers list in 2020.
The book is currently being developed into a limited television series for Hulu by Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.
“In Veritas” Named Speculative Fiction Book of the Year
Congratulations to the 2021 Aurora Award Nominees!
On May 9, 2021 the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association announced this year’s list of Aurora Award Nominees. These awards are given to Canadian authors and artists of science fiction and fantasy for eligible novels, short stories, artwork, magazines, and film or television from the previous calendar year.
Several SF Canada members are on this year’s list, including Robert J. Sawyer, Susan Forest, Barb Galler-Smith, R. Graeme Cameron, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, and Derek Newman-Stille. But the list of amazing and talented artists is much longer! So, head over to the full list of nominees on the 2021 ballot and refill your reading list for the summer.
Voting for the Aurora Awards opens July 31, 2021 and will close on September 4, 2021. Winners will be announced in an online ceremony on October 16, 2021.
Learn more about the Aurora Awards at prixaurorawards.ca.