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Prix Aurora Award Shortlists Announced
by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:37pm

The Prix Aurora Awards have announced their shortlists in all categories. This year the prizes will be awarded in Winnipeg as part of Manitoba's local Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, KeyCon, now in its 27th year.

Voting for the Auroras is open to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, and may be done at the Prix Aurora website, here. For those who plan on attending KeyCon, there will be onsite voting as well.

The nominees for best novel in English:

A complete list of nominees may be found here:

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg

2010 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
by McNally Robinson - Tuesday, Mar 02, 2010 at 9:39am

Judges have selected five books published in 2009 as finalists for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction.

The nominees are:

  • Sherman Alexie for War Dances (Grove Press)


  • Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna (Harper)


  • Lorraine M. López for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories (BkMk Press)


  • Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf)


  • Colson Whitehead for Sag Harbor (Doubleday).
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    Stoker Award Finalists Released
    by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:49am

    The Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in Horror have announced their shortlists in all categories. The Stokers are awarded for Superior Achievement rather than "best of year" and its rules are deliberately designed to make ties probable.

    Here are the finalists for Superior Achievement in a Novel:

    A complete list of the nominees may be found here:

    Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Horror

    The Commonwealth Writers' Prize Shortlists Announced
    by McNally Robinson - Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:53am

    The regional shortlists for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize have been released. Anne Michaels tops the list with her novel, The Winter Vault. Here is a video of Anne reading from The Winter Vault.

    Canadian authors swept the nominations for best book in the Caribbean and Canadian section, with half of the titles in that category being first novels (Euphoria, Goya's Dog, and The Golden Mean).

    Anne Michaels reading from The Winter Vault

    Categories: Awards, Literature

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    Nebula Award Nominees Announced
    by Chadwick Ginther - Monday, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:49pm

    The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) has announced their shortlists in all categories for the Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards are voted on by active members of the SFWA, and are considered one of the "big three" awards for the genre, alongside the Hugos and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Winners will be announced May 15th.

    Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

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