Heartiest congratulations to SF Canada Member Susan Forest, who has won the Aurora Award for Best YA Novel for “Flights of Marigold”! Her Addicted to Heaven series is now won twice in this category!
Heartiest congratulations today to Diane L. Walton and the team at On Spec Magazine! They have won this year’s Aurora Award for Best Related Work, the 9th time the magazine has received this honor! (Note: The magazine has received 21 nominations since the awards were introduced in 1983.)
Congratulations to SF Canada member @DLSproule! His story “The World’s First Fireproof Woman” has been published in “Emanations: When a Planet was a Planet”, the ninth volume of the critically acclaimed Emanations series by Carter Kaplan.
Many congrats to SF Canada member Su J. Sokol! Xyr novel “Zee” has just been short-listed for The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature!
Other books shortlisted this year include “Room for One More” by Monique Polak, “The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life” by Dani Jansen, and “Journal of a Travelling Girl” by Nadine Neema.
Canada’s Augur Magazine is sponsoring a series of Sunday workshops in October!
October 17th, at 2PM EST: Slipping Between The Streams: What Makes Poetry Speculative? hosted by poet Tiffany Morris.
October 24th, at 2PM EST: Stronger Stories: Beginnings That Make Impressions – hosted by Arley Sorg, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fantasy Magazine.
October 31st, at 3PM EST: Editing Speculative Short Fiction: An Overview – hosted by Andrew Wilmot, co-publisher of Anathema: Spec from the Margins, and an associate/acquisitions editor for Poplar Press.
Workshops will be virtual, and take place through Zoom Meetings.
Participants can register through Eventbrite, with paid ($15 CAD) and PWYC options. Register now: https://www.augurmag.com/augur-workshops/