The English-language and French-language Prix Aurora Awards have been split this year, “by the agreement between CSFFA and SFSF Boréal.” The French awards were combined with the Prix Boréal to become the the Prix Aurora Boréal, which were handed out this weekend at Boreal Conference in Montreal, Quebec. See this article for the winners and nominees.
The English-language Prix Aurora Awards will be announced at SFContario 2, which will also be Canvention 31, 18-20 November in Toronto, Ontario. Voting will begin in early June on-line and by mail-in ballot (see this page), with ballots due by 15 October.
This year’s nominees are:
Best English Novel:
Destiny’s Blood by Marie Bilodeau (Dragon Moon Press)
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking Canada)
Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell (Great Plains Publications)
WWW: Watch by Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada)
Stealing Home by Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
Best English Short Story:
“Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle” by Suzanne Church (Tesseracts Fourteen)
“Your Beating Heart” by M.G. Gillett (Rigor Amortis)
“Touch the Sky, They Say” by Matt Moore (AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review)
“The Envoy” by Al Onia (Warrior Wisewoman 3)
“The Burden of Fire” by Hayden Trenholm (Neo-Opsis)
Best English Poem / Song:
“Of the Corn: Kore’s Innocence” by Colleen Anderson (Witches & Pagans)
“The ABCs of the End of the World” by Carolyn Clink (A Verdant Green, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)
“Let the Night In” by Sandra Kasturi (Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead)
“Waiting for the Harrowing” by Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
“The Transformed Man” by Robert J. Sawyer (Tesseracts Fourteen)
Best English Graphic Novel:
Stargazer, Volume 1 by Von Allan (Von Allan Studio)
Goblins by Tarol Hunt (goblinscomic.com)
Tomboy Tara by Emily Ragozzino (tomboytara.com)
Looking for Group, Volume 3 by Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza
Best English Related Work:
Tesseracts Fourteenedited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory (EDGE)
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead edited by Nancy Kilpatrick (EDGE)
The Dragon and the Stars edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi (DAW)
Chimerascope by Douglas Smith (ChiZine Publications)
On Spec edited by Diane Walto (Copper Pig Writers Society)
Best Artist (Professional and Amateur):
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
Erik Mohr
Christina Molendyk
Dan O’Driscoll
Aaron Paquette
Best Fan Filk:
Dave Clement and Tom Jeffers of Dandelion Wine for Face on Mars CD
Karen Linsley; concert as SFContario Guest of Honour
Phil Mills for “Time Traveller” (song writing)
Best Fan Organizational:
Andrew Gurudata, organizing the Constellation Awards
Brent M. Jans, chair of Pure Speculation (Edmonton)
Liana Kerzner, chair of Futurecon (Toronto)
Helen Marshall and Sandra Kasturi, chairs of Toronto SpecFic Colloquium (Toronto)
Alex Von Thorn, chair of SFContario (Toronto)
Best Fan Other:
Tom Jeffers, Fundraising, FilKONtario
John and Linda Ross Mansfield, Conception of the Aurora Nominee pins
Lloyd Penney, Articles, columns and letters of comment—fanzines