- “Flying Kite, Crashing Ship“, a “short time travel comedy” by Krista Ball, was released by MuseitUp Publishing.
- Edward Willett released Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star, and its sequel, Andy Nebula: Double Trouble, through the Amazon Kindle store.
- Burning Days, a collection of short stories by Glenn Grant, has just been published by Nanopress.
- “Lover’s Triangle” by Colleen Anderson will be appearing in the reprint anthology New Vampire Tales edited by James Roy Daley, from Books of the Dead Press.
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia has short stories “Bloodlines” appearing in Fantasy Magazine and “Flash Frame” appearing in Cthulhurotica from Dagan Press.
- Sylvia Moreno-Garcia’s micro-press, Innsmouth Free Press, released its first book: Fraterfamilias, in December.
- Steve Stanton‘s short story “Perfect Match” was just published at Kasma Science Fiction and is upcoming in translation in Spin (Finland).
- Sandra Kasturi has a story, “The Coming of Ghosts” in Mike Kelly’s anthology/journal, Shadows & Tall Trees, and her short story, “Foxford,” is in the anthology Chilling Tales, which is now available for pre-order from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Press.
- Jennifer Rahn’s novel Wicked Initiations is forthcoming from Dragon Moon Publishing.
Author: sdramsey
SF Canada Supports Aurora Awards With $500 Prize For Winning Novels
SF Canada, Canada’s association of professional speculative fiction writers, and the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association are pleased to announce the SF Canada Award, a $500 prize that will be awarded annually to winners of the Best Novel category of the Aurora and Aurora-Boreal Awards, voted on each year by Canadian fans of speculative fiction to acknowledge the best of Canadian professional and fan activity in both official languages.
The first SF Canada Award will be awarded to the winner of the Aurora-Boreal Award, for best fantasy and/or science fiction novel published first in French in 2010 by a Canadian author, at the 28th Congrès Boréal in Montréal, May 13, 2011.
The second award, for the winner of the Aurora Award for best fantasy and/or science fiction novel published in English in 2010 by a Canadian author, will be presented at SFContario 2, November 18-20, 2011, in Toronto.
Since 1981, the Prix Aurora Awards have been nominated and voted on each year by the members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA), a federally incorporated non-profit society which exists to promote quality Canadian speculative fiction and the fan activity that surrounds it. Membership in the CSFFA is free, and open to any admirer of genre fiction who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
SF Canada was founded in 1989 as Canada’s National Association of Speculative Fiction in order to foster a sense of community among Canadian writers of speculative fiction, to improve communication, to foster the growth of quality writing, to lobby on behalf of Canadian writers, and to encourage the translation of Canadian speculative fiction.
SF CANADA APPUIE LES PRIX AURORA/BORÉAL AVEC UNE BOURSE DE 500 $ POUR LES ROMANS GAGNANTS
SF Canada, l’Association nationale des auteurs professionnels de fiction spéculative, et l’Association canadienne de la science-fiction et du fantastique (ACSFF) sont heureux d’annoncer la bourse SF Canada, un prix de 500 $ qui sera remis aux gagnants des catégories du Prix Aurora du meilleur roman anglophone et du Prix Aurora-Boréal du meilleur roman francophone. Ces prix sont décernés annuellement par vote des amateurs canadiens de fiction spéculative et visent à faire reconnaître en matière d’activité fanique ou professionnelle dans les deux langues officielles la première bourse SF Canada, remise au gagnant du Prix Aurora-Boréal pour le meilleur roman de fantasy ou de science fiction publié en français en 2010 par un auteur canadien, sera présentée au 28e Congrès Boréal, qui aura lieu à Montréal du 13 au 15 mai 2011.
La deuxième bourse remise au gagnant du Prix Aurora du meilleur roman de fantasy ou de science-fiction publié en anglais en 2010 par un auteur canadien, sera présentée à SFContario 2, qui aura lieu du 18 au 20 novembre 2011 à Toronto.
Depuis 1981, les prix Aurora ont été choisis par les membres de l’ACSFF, une société à but non lucratif qui vise à promouvoir la qualité de la fiction spéculative canadienne et les activités faniques qui l’entourent. L’adhésion à l’ACSFF est ouverte à tout citoyen canadien ou résident permanent au Canada qui est amateur de fiction spéculative.
SF Canada a été fondée en 1989. Cette association nationale a pour but de développer un sentiment de communauté parmi les écrivains de fiction spéculative, d’améliorer les contacts dans leur milieu professionnel, d’encourager une écriture de qualité, de défendre leurs intérêts et de promouvoir la traduction de fiction spéculative canadienne.
Dave Duncan Interview
A “Ten Questions” interview with Dave has been published on Open Book Toronto.
Arthur Slade Wins $25,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award
Arthur Slade of Saskatoon has won the 2010 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award for his book The Hunchback Assignments.
“A thrilling tale of an unusual and talented young man.” Publisher’s Weekly
“A full-steam-ahead spy thriller, complete with derring-do, a dastardly villain, and a suitably complex plot.” Quill & Quire starred review.
“The protagonists are likable, the villains are chilling, and the story is action packed.” School Library Journal
No stranger to the limelight, Arthur Slade won the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature for his book Dust.
http://www.arthurslade.com
http://www.hunchbackassignments.com
Forthcoming Works by SF Canada Members, November 2010
- From Stephanie Bedwell-Grime at Double Dragon Publishing, two releases this month, The Vampire Next Door, and The Dark Between, a science fiction novel.
- Jo Beverley has “The Marrying Maid”, a fantasy romance set in 18th century England, in Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star Crossed Love, an anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.
- This month, Catherine MacLeod is the one who almost needs a list of her own with four short stories:
- “Hydden” in Tesseracts 14, edited by Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, coming out from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
- “Seepage” in The Best of TaleBones, edited by Patrick Swenson, and published by Fairwood Press
- “Stone” in Horror Library #4, from Cutting Block Press
- “Water Breaks” in On Spec, Fall 2010.
- John Park has “Nightward”, a short story, also in Tesseracts 14, from Edge.
- MD Benoit is bringing out Catalyst, a SF thriller, published by Zumaya Publications.
Forthcoming in October 2010 (plus some September)
Quite a few releases, through the rest of September and into October …
- “A Pearl of Great Price”, a short story by Leslie Brown, in Warrior Wisewoman 3, from Norilana Books.
- Two short stories by Rebecca Senese, “Wolf’s Bane” at Allegory Magazine, and “Body Double”, at Anotherealm.
- Collapse of the Veil, a YA novel by Alison Lohans, is headed for press at Bundoran Press.
- “Where the Wiffle Ball Went”, a short story by Geoff Cole, will appear in the October issue of Dark Recesses.
- Pock’s World, a SF novel by Dave Duncan, from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Both Dave and Edge could have filled this entry by themselves.
- “Digital Rights,” by Brent Knowles, in Writers of the Future 26.
- Song of the Sword, Book 1 in the series The Shards of Excalibur, by Edward Willett, will be released October 15 by Lobster Press.
- Johnny Cash: The Man in Black and Andy Warhol: Everyone Will Be Famous for 15 Minutes, also by Ed Willett, are coming out from Enslow Publishers.
- “Rueful Regret” a novella by Steve Vernon, in Four Rode Out published by Cemetary Dance Publications.
- “Harvest Moon“, a novella by Krista Ball, is available from MuseItUp publishing.
- “Exegesis of the Insecta Apocrypha”, by Colleen Anderson, mentioned in the August entry, is on its way to press.
VCON 35, ongoing in Vancouver as I write, hosted a multi-book launch Friday (October 1) evening, celebrating new and recent releases.