2020 Aurora Award Ballot This ballot is for works done in 2019 by Canadians. The Aurora Awards are nominated by members of the Canadian and Fantasy Association. The top five nominated works were selected. Additional works were included where there was a tie for fifth place. The awards ceremony will be held online in conjunction with When Words Collide (Calgary) on August 15th. (whenwordscollide.org). Best Novel Haunting The Haunted by E. C. Bell, Tyche Books The Gossamer Mage by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada The Quantum Garden by Derek Künsken, Solaris Books Jade War by Fonda Lee, Orbit Books Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Del Rey

Best Young Adult Novel Wolf's Bane by Kelley Armstrong, K.L.A. Fricke Inc The Brilliant Dark: The Realms of Ancient, Book 3 by S.M. Beiko, ECW Press The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles: Metamorphosis by Marty Chan, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Bursts of Fire by Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc Murder at the World's Fair by MJ Lyons, Renaissance

Best Short Fiction This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Saga Press Clear as Quartz, Sharp as Flint by Maria Haskins, Augur Magazine, issue 2.1 Alice Payne Rides by Kate Heartfield, Tor.com Publishing Little Inn on the Jianghu by Y.M. Pang, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September Modigliani Paints the World by Hayden Trenholm, Neo-Opsis, Issue #30 Blindside by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Amazing Stories, v. 77, issue no. 1, Fall

Best Graphic Novel The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and Renee Nault, McClelland & Stewart Krampus is My Boyfriend! by S.M. Beiko, Webcomic It Never Rains by Kari Maaren, Webcomic Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Douglas & McIntyre Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls, Conundrum Press

Best Poem/Song The Girl Who Loved Birds by Clara Blackwood, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 76, no. 3, Spring At the Edge of Space and Time by Swati Chavda, Love at the Speed of Light, Ancient Hound Books Steampunk Christmas by David Clink, Star*Line, v. 42, no. 4., Fall The Day the Animals Turned to Sand by Tyler Hagemann, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 76, issue no. 3, Spring Totemic Ants by Francine P. Lewis, Amazing Stories Magazine, v. 77, issue no. 1, Fall Beauty, Sleeping by Lynne Sargent, Augur Magazine, issue 2.2 Bursts of Fire by Sora, theme song for book trailers

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Best Related Work PodCastle by Jen R. Albert and Cherae Clark, Escape Artists Inc. Nothing Without Us by Cait Gordon and Talia C. Johnson, Renaissance Neo-opsis edited by Karl Johanson Lackington's Magazine, edited by Ranylt Richildis (online) Dave Duncan's Legacy by Robert Runté, On Spec Magazine issue 111 Augur Magazine, Issue 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 published by Kerrie Seljak-Byrne and Alexander De Pompa On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society

Best Visual Presentation The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Dark Horse Entertainment V Wars (Season 1), William Laurin and Glenn Davis, High Park Entertainment Killjoys (Season 5), Michelle Lovretta and Adam Barken, Temple Street Productions Murdoch Mysteries (Ep. 10-18/Season 12 and Ep. 1-9/Season 13), Peter Mitchell and Christina Jennings, Shaftesbury Films Van Helsing (Season 4), Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Nomadic Pictures

Best Artist Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Bursts of Fire James F. Beveridge, cover for Fata Morgana and cover for On Spec #112 Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, A Rivet of Robots in On Spec Magazine and Cartoons in Amazing Stories Nathan Fréchette, covers for Renaissance Press Dan O'Driscoll, covers for Bundoran Press and cover for On Spec Magazine #110

Best Fan Writing and Publications R. Graeme Cameron, weekly columns in Amazing Stories (online) R. Graeme Cameron, Polar Borealis, Issues #9 to #12, editor Jennifer Desmarais, Travelling TARDIS, JenEric Designs Steve Fahnestalk, weekly columns in Amazing Stories (online) Ron S. Friedman, Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?, Quora Christina Vasilevski, Books and Tea

Best Fan Organizational KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, ephemera reading series, Toronto Brent Jans, Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival, Edmonton Derek Künsken and Marie Bilodeau, co-chairs, Can-Con, Ottawa Randy McCharles, chair, When Words Collide, Calgary Sandra Wickham, Creative Ink Festival, Burnaby, BC

Best Fan Related Work Brandon Crilly and Evan May, Broadcasts from the Wasteland, podcast Kari Maaren, Music on YouTube Channel Derek Newman-Stille, Speculating Canada Joshua Pantalleresco, Just Joshing, podcast Edward Willett, The Worldshapers, podcast

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