Make that the #AuroraAwards2026 too

BEST FAN RELATED WORK

Can*Con, Marie Bilodeau and Brandon Crilly
Scintillation, Jo Walton and Rene Walling, co-chairs
Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi, Troy Harkin and David Clink, podcast
Wizards & Spaceships, Rachel A. Rosen and David L. Clink, podcast
The Worldshapers Podcast, Edward Willett

BEST FAN WRITING

Amazing Stories online columns, Steve Fahnestalk
Book Reviews in The Ottawa Review of Books, Robert Runté
Polar Starlight Magazine, Rhea E. Rose, editor
Speculative Poetry and the Hugos, Lynne Sargent, Strange Horizons
Young People Read Old Science Fiction, James Davis Nicoll

BEST COVER ART/INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION

Dancing With the Holly King, Janice Blaine, On Spec Magazine
Seance, Alice M., Heartlines Spec
Lunar Base, Dan O’Driscoll, On Spec Magazine
Starship Librarians, Lorna Antoniazzi
Listen to Me and I’ll tell You a Story, Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe, Uncanny Magazine

BEST RELATED WORK pt. 2

On Spec Magazine, Issues #131 – 134, Vol 35, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers’ Society, Publisher
One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed, Psychopomp
Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, Editor, Ansible Press

BEST RELATED WORK pt. 1

As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, House of Anansi Press
Augur Magazine, Issues 8.1-8.3, Kerry C. Byrne, Toria Liao, André Geleynse, Kelley Tai, and Azure Arther

BEST POEM/SONG

“At the Spaceport Bar“, Lisa Timpf
“Bigfoot Farewell“, Carolyn Clink
“Dragon Karaoke“, David Clink
“Explosive“, Derek Newman-Stille
“flowers without meadow“, Tiffany Morris
“From Dust“, J. Y. Zhang

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL/COMIC

Atana and the Jade Mermaid, Vivian Zhou, HarperAlley
“Bonds of the Forest“, Ally Rom Colthoff, Augur Magazine, Issue 8.3
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic
Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques, webcomic
Shark Girl, Kate Beaton, Quill and Quire

BEST SHORT STORY pt. 2

“The Stone Played at Tengen“, R.H. Wesley, Clarkesworld
“What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?“, Rachel A. Rosen, Antifa Lit Journal

BEST SHORT STORY pt. 1

“Hunted To Extinction“, Premee Mohamed, Gallery Books
“I Ain’t Your Doll Face“, Jacqueline Thorpe, Polar Borealis
“the love song of house and lake“, Gillian Secord, On Spec

BEST NOVELETTE/NOVELLA

The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed, ECW Press
“In the Gardener’s Service“, Michèle Laframboise, Asimov’s
“The Lure of Stone“, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Uncanny Magazine
A Palace Near the Wind, Ai Jiang, Titan Books
The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar, Tordotcom

BEST YA NOVEL
Breath of the Dragon, Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee

Fireboy, Edward Willett, Shadowpaw Press
A Lion’s Head, D.M. De Alwis, Ahasae Tharu Publications
Minotaur, Jamieson Wolf, Rebel Satori Press
One Morning Sun, Avi Silver, Molewhale Press
Winging It, Jen Desmarais, Renaissance Press

BEST NOVEL

The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Blight, Rachel A. Rosen
Direct Descendant, Tanya Huff
The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine, Robert J. Sawyer
Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett
A Shift of Time, Julie E. Czerneda
Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay

Announcing the #AuroraAwars2026 finalists! Check out the full ballot at our Current Ballot page: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

We're currently working on the voters’ package which includes digital copies of nominated works. We hope to release it in mid-May. Voting for the awards will begin in June.

Last chance to nominate in the #AuroraAwards2026!

The nomination period ends in only *5* hours, at 11:59pm Eastern.

Get your picks in! Let's celebrate Canadian genre together!

Available from the members portal after the finalists are announced. We'll post again when it's ready to access.

Plus, members get get access to the Aurora Voters Package which includes ebook/digital copies of the all works on the final ballot. That makes $10 a pretty sweet deal for award-worthy Canadian fiction!

And if you're not already a member, why not?! It's only $10 to nominate and vote for your favourite Canadian speculative genre authors and artists.

You can STILL get a 2026 membership and vote before the Saturday deadline.

www.csffa.ca/become-a-mem...

THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S PRANK!

The #AuroraAwards2026 nominations CLOSE in 3 days, on Sat. Apr. 4, at 11:59pm EDT.

Already a member? Fill out your nominating ballot - nominating numbers are never that high so your vote can make a big difference to who gets on the final ballot.

www.csffa.ca

The nomination period for the 2026 Aurora Awards is officially open! All CSFFA members can log into the website at www.csffa.ca and submit up to five works in each our ten categories. Please only nominate what you're familiar with. Nominations close 11:59pm EST on April 4th, 2026. #AuroraAwards2026

CSFFA's March Newsletter is out: mailchi.mp/csffa/march-...
Find within:
2026 Aurora Award Nominations are Open!
The March Aurora Book Club book is "Songs from the Drowned Lands" by Eileen Kernaghan
We share an interview w/ Jon Tattrie, author of a new Charles Saunders (2025 CSFFA HOF Inductee)

The ones you see on the public page are already confirmed. We'll take a week to verify everything else and the nominations will open on the 28th.

Sorry for the late reminder! today is the final day to submit any SFFH creative work originally released in 2025 for consideration in this year's Aurora Awards. Eligibility lists close at 11:59pm EST tonight. Anything not on our confirmed lists *cannot* be nominated for the awards.
#AuroraAwards

Jan. 2026 CSFFA Newsletter drops, including: registration for the year is open, and our first book club meeting is happening on Jan. 22 (featuring @cjdwriter.bsky.social!) to talk A JUDGMENT OF DRAGONS and matron saint of Canadian spec fic, Phyllis Gotlieb.

mailchi.mp/csffa/jan-2026

Egads, typo in the title! Look away, you didn't see.

Happy Holidays from CSFFA!

Check out the info for our Aurora Book Club, launching in January with Phyllis Gotlieb's "A Judgment of Dragons" and a book club event featuring special guest @cjdwriter.bsky.social!

+ CSFFA's 2026 Calendar & Aurora Eligibility Reminder
mailchi.mp/csffa/dec-2025

Please find an announcement from us on the tragic passing of our friend and fellow board member, Jean-Louis Trudel.

mailchi.mp/csffa/in-mem...

2025 members can submit works until December 31, 2025. Starting in January, you'll need to sign up for a 2026 annual membership to have access to the member area for submissions, nominating, and voting. (If you have works you'd like us to submit on your behalf, please get in touch). 3/3

Our volunteer team will check everything added in time for nominations to open later in the winter. NO work can be nominated unless it has first been added to the eligibility lists. Nominations are made directly from the eligibility lists on our website. 2/

Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.

If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/