2026 Aurora Awards Winners
The winners of the 2026 Aurora Awards for works by Canadians were announced in an online awards ceremony on August 9, 2026, hosted by Elizabeth May Anderson and Mark Leslie Lefebvre.
Best Novel
- A Shift of Time, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) amazon / bookshop
- Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey) amazon / bookshop
- Direct Descendant, Tanya Huff (Astra House; DAW) amazon / bookshop
- Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay (Ace) amazon / bookshop
- The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) amazon / bookshop
- Blight, Rachel A. Rosen (BumblePuppy) amazon / bookshop
Best YA Novel
- A Lion’s Head, D.M. De Alwis (Ahasae Tharu) amazon / bookshop
- Winging It, Jen Desmarais (Renaissance) amazon / bookshop
- One Morning Sun, Avi Silver (Molewhale) amazon / bookshop
- Fireboy, Edward Willett (Shadowpaw) amazon / bookshop
- Minotaur, Jamieson Wolf (Queer Space) amazon / bookshop
Best Novelette/Novella
- WINNER: The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom) amazon / bookshop
- A Palace Near the Wind, Ai Jiang (Titan) amazon / bookshop
- “In the Gardener’s Service”, Michèle Laframboise (Asimov’s 7-8/25)
- The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed (ECW) amazon / bookshop
- “The Lure of Stone”, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Uncanny 9-10/25)
Best Short Story
- WINNER: “The Stone Played at Tengen”, R.H. Wesley (Clarkesworld 11/25)
- “Hunted To Extinction”, Premee Mohamed (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
- “What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?”, Rachel A. Rosen (Antifa Lit Journal, Volume 1: What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?)
- “the love song of house and lake”, Gillian Secord (On Spec 9/25)
- “I Ain’t Your Doll Face”, Jacqueline Thorpe (Polar Borealis 3/25)
Best Graphic Novel/Comic
- WINNER: Shark Girl, Kate Beaton (Quill and Quire)
- “Bonds of the Forest“, Ally Rom Colthoff (Augur 8.3)
- Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques (self-published)
- It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (self-published)
- Atana and the Jade Mermaid, Vivian Zhou (HarperAlley)
Best Related Work
- WINNER: Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) amazon
- Augur 8.1-8.3, Azure Arther, Kerry C. Byrne, André Geleynse, Toria Liao & Kelley Tai, eds.
- On Spec Vol 35, #131-134, Diane L. Walton, ed. (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)
- One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp) amazon / bookshop
- As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline) amazon / bookshop
Best Poem/Song
- WINNER: “From Dust”, J.Y. Zhang (Small Wonders 12/25)
- “Bigfoot Farewell”, Carolyn Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters)
- “Dragon Karaoke”, David Clink, (Polar Starlight 4/25)
- “flowers without meadow”, Tiffany Morris (Eye to the Telescope 4/25)
- “Explosive”, Derek Newman-Stille (Polar Starlight 8/25)
- “At the Spaceport Bar”, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight 2/25)
Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration
- WINNER: “Listen to Me and I’ll tell You a Story”, Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe (Uncanny 9-10/25)
- Starship Librarians cover art, Lorna Antoniazzi (Tyche)
- “Dancing With the Holly King”, Janice Blaine (On Spec Winter ’25)
- “Seance”, Alice M. (Heartlines Spec Spring ’25)
- “Lunar Base”, Dan O’Driscoll (On Spec Summer ’25)
Best Fan Writing and Publications
- WINNER: Polar Starlight Magazine, Rhea E. Rose, ed.
- Amazing Stories 405-420, Steve Fahnestalk
- Young People Read Old SFF, James Davis Nicoll (self-published)
- Book Reviews in The Ottawa Review of Books, Robert Runté
- “Speculative Poetry and the Hugos”, Lynne Sargent (Strange Horizons 7/21/25)
Best Fan Related Work
- WINNER: Can*Con 2025
- Scintillation 2025
- Two Old Farts Talk Sci-Fi
- Wizards & Spaceships
- The Worldshapers
Hall of Fame inductees were previously announced: Kelley Armstrong, James Alan Gardner, and Mike Glicksohn.
For more information, see the Aurora Awards website.
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