2013 Press Release - Aurora Awards



Press Release for the 2020 Aurora Awards

For Immediate Release

The 2020 Aurora Awards were announced during a live streamed online ceremony hosted by author Mark Leslie Lefebvre on Saturday, August 15th, 2020, . The ceremony also included the induction of authors Cory Doctorow and Matthew Hughes and musician/singer Heather Dale into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s (CSFFA) Hall of Fame.

The Best Novel award went to author Julie E. Czerneda for The Gossamer Mage. Showrunner Steve Blackman took home his first Aurora for the first season of The Umbrella Academy. Susan Forest was awarded her first long fiction award for Bursts of Fire, Best Young Adult Novel.

Aurora awards have been given out for Canadian literary and fan works that members of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) feel are exceptional. A total of eleven awards were given out. The ceremony was held in conjunction with this year’s online When Words Collide festival (). The 2021 award ceremony will be held in Ottawa at Can-Con.

Earlier in the day at the CSFFA AGM it was decided that the current Short Fiction category would be split into two awards for 2021. The new categories will be: Short Story for works that have less than 7,500 words and Novelette/Novella for works that have a word counts between 40,000 and 7,500. It was also decided that the 2022 Auroras would be again be held in Calgary at When Words Collide.

For a more details about CSFFA, the Auroras, or this year’s nominees, please go to our website at: prixaurorawards.ca. CSFFA memberships are open to all Canadians citizens and permanent residents.

The full list of 2020 Aurora Awards is:

Best Novel: The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books

Best YA Novel: Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc

Best Short Fiction: “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Saga Press and Jo Fletcher Books

Best Graphic Novel: Krampus is My Boyfriend! by S.M. Beiko, Webcomic

Best Poem/Song: TIE: “At the Edge of Space and Time” by Swati Chavda, Love at the Speed of Light, Ancient Hound Books AND “Bursts of Fire” by Sora, theme song for book trailers

Best Related Work: On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society

Best Visual Presentation: The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Dark Horse Entertainment

Best Artist: Dan O'Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and cover for On Spec Magazine #110

Best Fan Writing and Publication: Polar Borealis, Issues #9 to #12, R. Graeme Cameron (editor)

Best Fan Organizational: Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can*Con, Ottawa

Best Fan Related Work: Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada

Attached is the new design for the Aurora Awards and the plaques which each of this year’s Hall of Fame inductees will be receiving.

If you have any questions, please contact me at csamuels@

Clifford Samuels

Aurora Awards Administrator

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