Song of the Sword long-listed for the Sunburst Award
I’m excited to announce that Song of the Sword has been long-listed in the young adult category for The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, an annual award celebrating the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year.
The winners receive a cash prize of $1,000 as well as a medallion which incorporates the Sunburst logo.
The Sunburst Award takes its name from the debut novel of the late Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction.
Others long-listed in the YA category:
Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
Gottika by Helaine Becker
Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci
The Voices in Between by Charlene Challenger
Guardian by Natasha Deen
Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica
A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey
Sophie, In Shadow by Eileen Kernaghan
Seven Wild Sisters by Charles de Lint
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
The Paper Sword by Robert Priest
Zomboy by Richard Scrimger
Radiant by Karina Sumner-Smith
The Door in the Mountain by Caitlin Sweet
The short list will be announced in mid-June and the winners will be announced in the fall. This year’s jurors are S.M. Beiko, Gerard Collins, Paula Johanson, Corey Redekop and Sherryl Vint.
