A press release from Rebecca Simkin of the Sunburst Award Committee:
Celebrating its 38th season, Authors at Harbourfront Centre is thrilled to announce a great fall literary line-up, including readings from some of the shortlisted authors for the 10th annual Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic (September 14).
Each year the Sunburst Society comes together to honour the best in speculative fiction recognizing novels and book-length collections of work in both the adult and young adult categories. Authors at Harbourfront Centre is delighted to host the event this year with seven of the 10 nominated authors reading from their works. The nominated authors in the adult category are: Guy Gavriel Kay, Under Heaven; Robert J. Sawyer, WWW:Watch; Douglas Smith, Chimerascope; S.M. Stirling, A Taint in the Blood; and Hayden Trenholm, Stealing Home. In the young adult category: Holly Bennett, Shapeshifter; Erin Bow, Plain Kate; Charles de Lint, The Painted Boy; Paul Glennon, Bookweirder; and Robert Paul Weston, Dust City. Those appearing at Harbourfront Centre: Bennett, Bow, Glennon, Kay, Smith, Trenholm, and Weston.
Events take place in the York Quay Centre (235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2G8), unless otherwise noted. Tickets are $10 to the general public, free for members and students with ID. Harbourfront Centre Box Office/Information: 416-973-4000 or see this page.