Sunburst Award
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The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is a juried award, given annually to the Canadian writer of a speculative fiction novel or book-length collection. The award is named after the novel by Phyllis Gotlieb (1926-2009), one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction, the award consists of a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion which incorporates a "Sunburst" logo, designed by Marcel Gagné.
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— Winners by Year —
| — 2020 — | Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (adult) |
| The Ghost Collector, Allison Mills (young adult) | |
| “The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest”, Rebecca Campbell (short story) | |
| — 2019 — | Plum Rains, Andromeda Romano-Lax (adult) |
| Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman (young adult) | |
| “The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls”, Senaa Ahmad (short story) | |
| — 2018 — | The Bone Mother, David Demchuk (adult) |
| The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline (Young Adult) | |
| “The Beautiful Gears of Dying”, Sandra Kasturi (Short Story) | |
| — 2017 — | Spells of Blood and Kin, Claire Humphrey (Adult) |
| Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, Jonathan Auxier (Young Adult) | |
| “The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)”, A. C. Wise (Short Story) | |
| — 2016 — | Experimental Film, Gemma Files (Adult) |
| An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet (Young Adult) | |
| “Hide and Seek”, Catherine A. MacLeod (Short Story) | |
| — 2015 — | The Back of the Turtle, Thomas King (Adult) |
| Tin Star, Cecil Castellucci (Young Adult) | |
| — 2014 — | A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Adult) |
| The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, Charles de Lint (Young Adult) | |
| — 2013 — | Maleficium, Martine Desjardins (Adult) |
| Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Young Adult) | |
| — 2012 — | Paradise Tales, Geoff Ryman (Adult) |
| All Good Children, Catherine Austen (Young Adult) | |
| — 2011 — | Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Adult) |
| Bookweirder, Paul Glennon (Young Adult) | |
| — 2010 — | Indigo Springs, A. M. Dellamonica (Adult) |
| Half World, Hiromi Goto (Young Adult) | |
| — 2009 — | The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson (Adult) |
| Little Brother, Cory Doctorow (Young Adult) | |
| — 2008 — | The New Moon's Arms, Nalo Hopkinson (Adult) |
| Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, Joanne Proulx (Young Adult) | |
| — 2007 — | Fabrizio's Return, Mark Frutkin |
| — 2006 — | In the Palace of Repose, Holly Phillips |
| — 2005 — | Air, Geoff Ryman |
| — 2004 — | A Place So Foreign and Eight More, Cory Doctorow |
| — 2003 — | Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson |
| — 2002 — | When Alice Lay Down with Peter, Margaret Sweatman |
| — 2001 — | Galveston, Sean Stewart |
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