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:

• The Amulet of Amon-Ra-Leslie Carmichael
• Druids-Barbara Galler-Smith and Josh Langston
• Wake-Robert J. Sawyer
• Steel Whispers-Hayden Trenholm
• Terra Insegura-Edward Willett

A complete list of nominees may be found here:

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:

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:

• Audrey's Door - Sarah Langan
• Patient Zero - Jonathan Maberry
• Quarantined - Joe McKinney
• Cursed - Jeremy Shipp

A complete list of the nominees may be found here:

 

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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).

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