2024 Aurora Awards

The 2024 Aurora Awards were handed out on August 11, 2024, in a live streaming ceremony: YouTube – Facebook – Linkedin

The Winners

  • Best Novel: The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager
  • Best YA Novel: Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline, Tundra Books
  • Best Novelette/Novella:  Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee, Tordotcom
  • Best Short Story: “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed, Communications Breakdown, MIT Press
  • Best Graphic Novel: A Call to Cthulhu, Norm Konyu, Titan Nova
  • Best Poem/Song “Awakening”, Tiffany Morris, Nightmare Magazine, Issue 134
  • Best Related Work:  Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, editor, Ansible Press
  • Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration:  Augur Magazine, Issue 6.1, cover art, Lorna Antoniazzi
  • Best Fan Writing and Publication: Polar Borealis, Issues 24, 25, 26, and 27, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
  • Best Fan Related Work:  ephemera Reading Series, KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, co-chairs, online

The Voting Statistics

Aurora Awards voting grids (PDF)

The Nominees

Best Novel

  • Bad Cree, Jessica Johns, HarperCollins Canada
  • The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan, ECW Press
  • Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice, Random House Canada
  • Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey
  • The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager

Best Young Adult Novel

  • The Crystal Key: The Dream Rider Saga, Book 2, Douglas Smith, Spiral Path Books
  • Flower and Thorn, Rati Mehrotra, Wednesday Books
  • Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline, Tundra Books
  • The Grimmer, Naben Ruthnum, ECW Press
  • The Stars of Mount Quixx, S.M. Beiko, ECW Press

Best Novelette/Novella

  • Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris, Stelliform Press
  • I AM AI, Ai Jiang, Shortwave Media
  • “The Most Strongest Obeah Woman of the World”, Nalo Hopkinson, Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, Random House
  • Pluralities, Avi Silver, Atthis Arts
  • Untethered Sky, Fonda Lee, Tordotcom

Best Short Story

  • “At Every Door A Ghost”, Premee Mohamed, Communications Breakdown, MIT Press
  • “The Dust Bowl Café”, Justin Dill, Augur Magazine, Issue 6.1
  • “If I Should Fall Behind”, Douglas Smith, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct Issue
  • “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont”, P.A. Cornell, Fantasy Magazine, Issue 96
  • “Sink Your Sorrows to the Sea”, Chandra Fisher, Saltwater Sorrows, Tyche Books

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

  • Atana and the Firebird, Vivian Zhou, HarperCollins
  • A Call to Cthulhu, Norm Konyu, Titan Nova
  • Carson of Venus, Ronn Sutton (artist), Martin Powell (writer), and Maggie Lopez (colourist), webcomic
  • Cosmic Detective, Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt, art by David Rubin, Image Comics
  • It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic
  • The Secret of the Ravens, written and illustrated by Joanna Cacao, with lettering by Kyla Aiko, Clarion Books
  • Wychwood, Ally Rom Colthoff, webcomic

Best Poem/Song

  • “As a, I want to, so I can”, Kelley Tai, Heartlines Spec, Issue 2, Spring/Summer 2023
  • “Awakening”, Tiffany Morris, Nightmare Magazine, Issue 134
  • “Lying Flat”, Lynne Sargent, Strange Horizons, Issue 9 October 2023
  • “predictive text”, Dominik Parisien, Augur, Issue 6.1
  • “Scarecrow”, David Shultz, Polar Starlight, Issue 9
  • “A Siren’s Call, A Banshee’s Wail, A Grandmother’s Dream”, Ai Jiang, Uncanny Magazine, Issue Fifty Four

Best Related Work

  • GAME ON!,  Stephen Kotowych & Tony Pi, editors, Zombies Need Brains LLC
  • No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, Premee Mohamed, Undertow Publications
  • On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers’ Society
  • Skin Thief: Stories, Suzan Palumbo, Neon Hemlock Press
  • Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, Stephen Kotowych, editor, Ansible Press

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration

  • Augur Magazine, Issue 6.1, cover art, Lorna Antoniazzi
  • Endless Library – Fantasy, interior art, Marco Marin, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, Ansible Press
  • Green Fuse Burning, cover art, Chief Lady Bird, Stelliform Press
  • The Machines That Make Us, cover art, Brent Nichols, Tyche Books
  • The Passion of Ivan Rodriguez, cover art, Kayla Kowalyk, Tyche Books
  • Tales & Feathers Magazine, Issue 1, cover art, Jade Zhang

Best Fan Writing and Publication

  • Maria’s Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Short Fiction Roundup, Maria Haskins
  • Polar Borealis Magazine, Issues: 24, 25, 26, and 27, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
  • Polar Starlight Magazine, Issues: 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, edited by Rhea E. Rose 
  • The Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais, JenEric Designs
  • Young People Read Old SFF, edited by James Davis Nicoll, online

Best Fan Related Work

  • ephemera Reading Series, KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, co-chairs, online
  • Scintillation 4, Jo Walton and René Walling, co-chairs, Montreal
  • Sip & Read / Sip & Social @ Librairie Saga Bookstore, Mathieu Lauzon-Dicso, bookstore owner
  • When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair, Calgary
  • The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett, online

Note: Can*Con recused themselves from this year’s ballot even though they had enough nominations.