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2011 Prix Aurora Shortlists Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 1:53pm

Congratulations to Brandon's Craig Russell for being shortlisted for the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Novel. We've been fortunate at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg to have hosted four of the five nominees in this year's novel category.

The Prix Auroras will be awarded the weekend of November 18-20 at the Canadian national science fiction and fantasy convention, this year hosted by SFContario.

Best English Novel:

Two nominated anthologies feature stories by Manitobans: Tesseracts Fourteen, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, includes "Heat Death, or Answering the Ouroboros Question" by Brandon's Patrick Johanneson and "Chrysalis" by Winnipeg's Ronald Hore appears in Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. There are also two new categories this year: Poetry or Song Lyric and Graphic Novel.

A complete list of 2011 nominees

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy, Winnipeg, Horror
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