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2011 Prix Aurora Awards Now Open to Nominations by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:28pm The 2011 Prix Aurora Awards have opened to nominations in all categories. If you're a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident, you can have a say in who will take home a Prix Aurora trophy.

The Prix Auroras celebrate the best in Canadian science fiction, fantasy and horror, but they also acknowledge Canada's vibrant genre fan community, with three separate fan awards categories.

Eligible works that excited our staff in 2010 include: Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong, Tesseracts 14 edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files, Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, Evolve edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, Sweet Tooth Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Jeff Lemire, Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell, Watch by Robert J. Sawyer, The Dark Deeps by Arthur Slade, Stealing Home by Hayden Trenholm, and Song of the Sword by Edward Willett.

Sawyer's Wake took home the 2010 award for Best Long Form Work in English at Manitoba's premiere Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, Keycon. A complete list of last year's winners here: The 2011 Awards will be presented at SFContario in Toronto, November 18-20

2010 Publications in English can be found here; 2010 Publications en Français here.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Horror
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