CSFFA Hall of Fame – Latest Inductees
July 1, 2026 – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Board is proud to announce the 2026 CSFFA Hall of Fame inductees:
Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong is the author of over fifty novels and dozens of short stories.
Armstrong has won the White Pine Award (The Gathering, 2012); an Aurora Award – YA Novel category (The Rising, 2014); the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award – Young Adult & Middle Reader category (A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying, 2020); and, the RITA Award – Long Speculative Romance category (A Stitch in Time, 2021).
Armstrong has been nominated for the International Horror Guild Award; the Sunburst Award; the MWA Sue Grafton Memorial Award; and many Aurora Awards.
Recent releases include the “Rip Through Time” time-travel mystery series, the “Haven’s Rock” mystery series, “The Haunting of Paynes Hollow” (horror) and “A Deadly Inheritance” (teen thriller).
She’s a Globe & Mail, New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and her first series was adapted into the TV show Bitten.
Armstrong lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband and pets.
[Nominated by Clint Budd (HoF 2025) and Clifford Samuels (HoF 2025)]
James Alan Gardner
James Alan Gardner has been a writer of science fiction and fantasy for more than forty years. Starting with plays and radio dramas at the University of Waterloo, Gardner has gone on to write ten novels, as well as numerous short stories which have appeared in Amazing Stories, Asimov’s SF Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Nature. He’s led many writing classes and workshops and acted as an editor for other writers’ projects.
His work has won the Aurora Award, the Seiun, the Asimov’s Readers’ Choice, the Writers of the Future Contest, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His stories have also appeared on the final ballots for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Robert J. Sawyer says: “James Alan Gardner is simply the finest short-story writer in the history of Canadian science fiction.”
Gardner lives in Southern Ontario where he writes 24/7.
[Nominated by Robert J. Sawyer (Hof 2013)]
Mike Glicksohn
Hugo Award-winner Mike Glicksohn (1946-2011) was involved in SFFH fandom for over four decades and was beloved by all who knew him.
Among Mike’s many achievements: Inducted into the First Fandom Posthumous Hall of Fame (2024); Hugo Award co-winner for Best Fanzine (1973) for ENERGUMEN; two previous Hugo Award nominations for ENERGUMEN; Hugo Award nomination for Best Fan Writer (1977); Fan Guest of Honour at Aussiecon 1, the 33rd Worldcon (1975); Fanzine Activity Achievement Awards (FAAn) as Best LoC (letter-of-comment) Writer (3 times); Selected Past President, FWA (Fanzine Writers of America) at the 2006 Corflu; Co-chair of the Toronto 2003 Worldcon bid; and, Co-founder of the Ontario Science Fiction Club (OSFiC) in 1966.
Based in Toronto, each US Memorial Day long weekend for more than 25 years Mike and his friend Michael Harper hosted MikeCon, which was attended by hundreds of SFFH fans from across Canada and the United States.
[Nominated by Robert J. Sawyer (HoF 2013)]
We wish to thank the 2026 CSFFA Hall of Fame jury for their work:
JM Landels
JM Landels, writer and illustrator of the Allaigna’s Song trilogy and co-founder of Pulp Literature wears far too many hats. The strange mix of a degree in Mediaeval English Literature, a misspent youth fronting alternative punk bands, and a career as a childbirth educator and doula informs her work. When she isn’t writing, editing or drawing, she can be found heading up Academie Cavallo, where she swings swords and rides horses for fun and profit.
Y.M. Pang
Y.M. Pang is a two-time Aurora Award–winning writer and poet, an occasional dabbler in photography, and a full-time alien. Her work has appeared in numerous venues, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and On Spec. Her fiction and poetry were selected in the Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume 3. Her debut short story collection, All the Broken Blades, was released in 2025.
Clifford Samuels (HoF 2023)
Clifford Samuels has been a fixture of Canadian fandom for all of his adult life and an avid reader and book collector of speculative fiction. He first began working on conventions in 1981. Cliff helped co-found Con-Version in 1984 and When Words Collide in 2011.
From 2007 to present Cliff has been a board member of CSFFA, primarily as the Aurora Awards administrator. He was inducted into the CSFFA Hall of Fame in 2023.
Edo van Belkom
Edo van Belkom is a Bram Stoker, Aurora, and Silver Birch Award–winning author of some 35 books and 250 short stories. His young adult series Wolf Pack was the inspiration for the Paramount Plus TV series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and his short story “The Rug” was made into a short horror film by director Sean Cisterna. His book of interviews, Northern Dreamers, features 22 Canadian writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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David Clink, Chair
David Clink is an Aurora Award winning poet. He has two podcasts, Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi (with Troy Harkin); and Wizards & Spaceships (with Rachel A. Rosen). He is the poetry editor of Amazing Stories (along with his sister, Carolyn, and Herb Kauderer). He’s also the chair of the CSFFA Hall of Fame, which recognizes Canadian SFFH practitioners for their contributions over their entire career. David’s latest collection: The Black Ship (Aeolus House, 2023).
We would like to take this moment to thank all of the nominees. Those who were not selected will remain nominees for future years.