The final ballot for 2009 Prix Aurora Awards- the award for the best Canadian science fiction and fantasy literary works, art works, and fan achievement has been released. Voting will take place through July 15, 2009 and the award will be given out at Canvention 29, a subset of Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, held August 6-10, 2009, in Montreal, Quebec.
The English fiction nominees are:
Best Long-Form Work in English
Best work of SF or Fantasy in a novel or fiction collection in English by a Canadian writer, published in 2008.
• After the Fires, Ursula Pflug (Tightrope Books)
• Identity Theft and Other Stories, Robert J. Sawyer (Red Deer Press)
• Impossibilia, Douglas Smith (PS Publishing)
• Defining Diana, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press)
• Marseguro, Edward Willett (DAW Books)
Best Short-Form Work in English
For a published SF or Fantasy novella, novelette, short story or poem in English by a Canadian writer, released in Canada in 2008.
• “All In,” Peter Atwood (May-June, Weird Tales magazine)
• “Back,” Susan J. Forest (June, Analog magazine)
• “Ringing in the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta,” Randy McCharles (Tesseracts Twelve, Edge Science Fiction)
• “A Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase by Van Gogh,” Douglas Smith (Impossibilia, PS Publishing)
• “Doorways,” Douglas Smith (Postscripts Magazine #17, PS Publishing)
(via Locus Online)
I haven't read any of these works, I guess I’m failing in my Cancon requirements.