Sunburst Award

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The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual literary award given for a speculative fiction novel or a book-length collection, first awarded in 2001. A young adult category was created in 2008, to differentiate from adult works; and a short fiction award as well. The award was on hiatus between 2020 and 2024 and has returned for the 2025 award.[1]

History

The name of the award comes from the title of the first novel by Phyllis Gotlieb, Sunburst (1964).

The first award was given out in 2001. The award consists of a cash prize (Template:Currency for novel length work, and Template:Currency for short stories) and a medallion. The winner is selected by jury; a new jury is struck each year.

On 2 June 2020, the Sunburst Award Society announced the awards were going on a hiatus due to impacts related to COVID-19.[2]

In December 2024, the return of the award for 2025 was announced. The cash price was changed to Template:Currency for a novel length work.[1]

Winners

General

Prior to 2008, the Sunburst Award was presented in a single category. In later years, it was broken down into two or three categories, including adult, young adult, and short story.

After the 2020-2024 hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award seems to have returned to a single category.

General Sunburst Award winners
Year Author Result Result Ref.
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Galveston Winner
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". When Alice Lay Down with Peter Winner
2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Skin Folk Winner
2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Air Winner
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". In the Palace of Repose Winner
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Fabrizio's Return Winner
2025 Script error: No such module "Sort". Blackheart Man Winner [3]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mood Swings Finalist [4]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bird Suit Finalist [4]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Code Noir Finalist [4]
Script error: No such module "Sort". A Seal of Salvage Finalist [4]

Adult

Sunburst Award for Adult Book winners and finalists
Year Author Result Result Ref.
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [5]
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [6][7]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Night Child Finalist [7][8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [7][8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Things Go Flying Finalist [7][8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Half a Crown Finalist [7][8]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Indigo Springs Winner [9]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [9][10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Makers Finalist [9][10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [9][10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Finalist [9][10]
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Under Heaven Winner [11][12]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Watch Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Chimerascope Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Stealing Home Finalist [12][13]
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". Paradise Tales Winner [14]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Blackdog Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Technicolor Ultra Mall Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Enter, Night Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [14][15]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". (trans. by Fred A. Reed and David Homel)  Maleficium Winner
Script error: No such module "Sort". Finton Moon Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Over the Darkened Landscape Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Westlake Soul Finalist [16]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [17]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [18][19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Station Eleven Finalist [18][19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". My Real Children Finalist [18][19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Will Starling Finalist [18][19]
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Experimental Film Winner [20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Signal to Noise Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Daydreams of Angels Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [20][21]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Spells of Blood and Kin Winner [22][23]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sleeping Giants Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Necessity Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Last Year Finalist [23][24]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [25][26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". American War Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sputnik’s Children Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Jade City Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Son of a Trickster Finalist [26][27]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Plum Rains Winner [28][29]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sodom Road Exit Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Armed in Her Fashion Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Annex Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Trickster Drift Finalist [29][30]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Gods of Jade and Shadow Winner [31][32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Shout Kill Revel Repeat Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Crow Winter Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Moccasin Square Gardens Finalist [32]

Short story

The Sunburst Award for Short Story was introduced in 2016.

Sunburst Award for Short Story winners and finalists
Year Author Result Result Ref.
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Hide and Seek" (Playground of Lost Toys) Winner [20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "La Héron" (F&SF 3-4/15) Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Glad Hosts" (Lackington’s #7) Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Stuck in the Past" (Abyss & Apex #54) Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Two-Year Man" (Asimov’s, August 2015) Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Get the Message" (Second Contacts) Finalist [20][21]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "sort"." Winner [22][23]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "La Corriveau" (Strange Horizons 10/3/16) Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Dog and the Sleepwalker" (Strangers Among Us) Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Caro in Carno" (The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu) Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Men from Narrow Houses" (Liminal Stories Spring/Summer ’16) Finalist [23][24]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "sort"." Winner [25][26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Spiked" (Abyss & Apex 6/17) Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Meridian" (Where the Stars Rise) Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Hacker’s Faire" (Cast of Wonders 3/17) Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Animate" (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change) Finalist [26][27]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "sort"." Winner [28][29]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Domestic Violence" (Future Tense 3/26/18) Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas" (Sword and Sonnet) Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Meat And Salt And Sparks" (Tor.com 6/6/18) Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "sort"." (Shimmer 11/18) Finalist [29][30]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". "Script error: No such module "sort"." Winner [31][32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Florilegia" (The Mythic Dream) Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Inland Beacon" (Tesseracts Twenty-Two: Alchemy and Artifacts) Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "The Hundred Gardens" (Nat. Brut Spring ’19) Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". "Wheetago War II: Summoners" (Moccasin Square Gardens) Finalist [32]

Young adult

Sunburst Award for Young Adult Book winners and finalists
Year Author Result Result Ref.
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet Winner [5][33]
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Little Brother Winner [6][7][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [7][8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Dingo Finalist [7][8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Wild Talent: A Novel of the Supernatural Finalist [7][8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Night Runner Finalist [7][8]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Half World Winner [9][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Give Up the Ghost Finalist [9][10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Amy By Any Other Name Finalist [9][10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Wondrous Strange Finalist [9][10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [9][10]
2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Bookweirder Winner [11][12][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Shapeshifter Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Plain Kate Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [12][13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Dust City Finalist [12][13]
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". All Good Children Winner [14][33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Ultraviolet Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [14][15]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Blood Red Road Finalist [14][15]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Seraphina Winner [33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pirate Cinema Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Bright’s Light Finalist [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Rebel Heart Finalist [16]
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [17][33]
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Tin Star Winner [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [18][19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [18][19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sophie, In Shadow Finalist [18][19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [18][19]
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sight Unseen Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [20][21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Boo Finalist [20][21]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard Winner [22][23]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Worlds of Ink and Shadow Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Julia Vanishes Finalist [23][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [23][24]
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [25][26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Exo Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Weave a Circle Round Finalist [26][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Dragonfly Song Finalist [26][27]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Tess of the Road Winner [28][29]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Spellslinger Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Black Chuck Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Not Even Bones Finalist [29][30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Feeder Finalist [29][30]
2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [31][32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nevers Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Those Who Dwell Below Finalist [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nikki Tesla and the Ferret-Proof Death Ray Finalist [32]

Lists of nominees

For a complete and up to date listing of current and past long-listed and short-listed works, please see the Sunburst Award Website.

Eligibility

The Sunburst Award administration and juries use the broadest possible definition of speculative fiction for eligibility purposes: "science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, horror, surrealism, fantastique, fabulism, myth and legend, fantastical storytelling, and any other writing beyond the strictly realistic". To be eligible for the award, a work must be published between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year. Only Canadian citizens and landed immigrants are eligible.

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