The finalists for the 2011 Aurora Awards have been announced and a BIG congratulations goes out to my fellow Stop-Watch Gang member, Suzanne Church, for her nomination in the Best English Short Story category! That makes 4 out of the 7 of us who have been Aurora Award finalists now, and marks the second year in a row that The Stop-Watch Gang has had a member on the Aurora ballot. w00t!
Voting will begin in early June through a newly streamlined on-line forms or by mail-in ballot. All ballots must be received by October 15, 2011, Midnight PST.
For complete details visit the Prix Aurora Awards homepage here.
The full list of nominees are:
2011 Prix Aurora Awards
Professional Awards
Best English Novel
Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell, Great Plains Publications
Destiny’s Blood by Marie Bilodeau, Dragon Moon Press
Stealing Home by Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press
Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada
Watch, by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada
Best English Short Story
“Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needle“ by Suzanne Church, Tesseracts Fourteen, EDGE
“The Burden of Fire“ by Hayden Trenholm, Neo-Opsis #19
“The Envoy“ by Al Onia, Warrior Wisewoman 3, Norilana Books
“Touch the Sky, They Say“ by Matt Moore, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, November
“Your Beating Heart“ by M. G. Gillett, Rigor Amortis, Absolute Xpress
Best English Poem / Song
“The ABCs of the End of the World“ by Carolyn Clink, A Verdant Green, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
“Let the Night In“ by Sandra Kasturi, Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, EDGE
“Of the Corn: Kore’s Innocence“ by Colleen Anderson, Witches & Pagans #21
“The Transformed Man“ by Robert J. Sawyer, Tesseracts Fourteen, EDGE
“Waiting for the Harrowing“ by Helen Marshall, ChiZine 45
Best English Graphic Novel
Goblins, Tarol Hunt, goblinscomic.com
Looking For Group, Vol. 3 by Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza
Stargazer, Volume 1 by Von Allan, Von Allan Studio
Tomboy Tara, Emily Ragozzino, tomboytara.com
Best English Related Work
Chimerascope, Douglas Smith (collection), ChiZine Publications
The Dragon and the Stars, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, DAW
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, EDGE
On Spec, edited by Diane Walton, Copper Pig Writers Society
Tesseracts Fourteen, edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, EDGE
Best Artist (Professional and Amateur)
(An example of each artist’s work is listed below but they are to be judged on the body of work they have produced in the award year)
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, “Brekky” cover art, On Spec Fall
Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications
Christina Molendyk, Girls of Geekdom Calendar for Argent Dawn Photography
Dan O’Driscoll, cover art for Stealing Home
Aaron Paquette, “A New Season” cover art, On Spec Spring