Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Association

Please find an announcement from us on the tragic passing of our friend and fellow board member, Jean-Louis Trudel.

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2025 members can submit works until December 31, 2025. Starting in January, you'll need to sign up for a 2026 annual membership to have access to the member area for submissions, nominating, and voting. (If you have works you'd like us to submit on your behalf, please get in touch). 3/3

Our volunteer team will check everything added in time for nominations to open later in the winter. NO work can be nominated unless it has first been added to the eligibility lists. Nominations are made directly from the eligibility lists on our website. 2/

Eligibility lists are now OPEN for Canadian speculative fiction works published in 2025.

If you purchased a 2025 membership to vote in the Aurora Awards this past year, you can head over to www.csffa.ca and log in to add works to our lists. 1/

After skipping October, our November newsletter is out: mailchi.mp/csffa/nov-2025

Our eligibility submissions process is opening soon (November) for next year's Aurora Awards!

We are always looking for folks willing to help us verify eligibility.

If you are interested in helping out (the commitment is limited and has a set end date, please write to volunteer.csffa@gmail.com

Just got my Aurora nominee pin from the @csffa.bsky.social. Honoured to have CEMETERY KIDS DON’T DIE recognized this year.

@danielirizarri.bsky.social @oni-press.bsky.social

Author YM Pang with two Aurora Awards

Look what arrived in the mail! Aurora Awards in their natural habitat.

Thank you @csffa.bsky.social for these gorgeous trophies!

#auroraawards #sff #CanadianSFF #shortstories #poetry

Full details about this year’s awards and how voting and nominations went got our statistics document in our 2025 Archive page, www.csffa.ca/aurora-archi...

Best Cover Art/Interior Illustration: Augur Magazine, Issue 7.1, cover art, Martine Nguyen
Best Fan Writing and Publication: SF&F Book Reviews, Robert Runté, Ottawa Review of Books
Best Fan Related Work: murmurstations, Sonia Urlando, Augur Society, podcast

Best Poem/Song “Cthulhu on the Shores of Osaka“, Y.M. Pang, Invitation: A One-shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction
Best Related Work: Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two,
Stephen Kotowych, editor, Ansible Press

Best Short Story: “Blood and Desert Dreams“, Y.M. Pang, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 408
Best Graphic Novel: Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio, IDW Publishing

The awards went to:

Best Novel: The Siege of Burning Grass, Premee Mohamed, Solaris
Best YA Novel: Heavenly Tyrant, Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books
Best Novelette/Novella: The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed, Tordotcom

2025 Aurora Award Winners

We are pleased to announce (a little late) the winners of the 2025 Aurora Awards for excellence by Canadians in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. We want to congratulate all of this year’s nominees.

We will have acceptance speeches by this year’s Hall of Fame inductees, and we will reveal who will take home this year’s Aurora Awards plus a few surprises.

YouTube video by Mark Leslie Lefebvre The 2025 Aurora Awards

Here are the links for this year’s awards ceremony. Sign-in so you can post your comments.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2k...
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/10951...
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/73589...

YouTube video by Mark Leslie Lefebvre The 2025 Aurora Awards

The 2025 Aurora Award Ceremony will begin at 5:00pm EDT on Sunday, August 10th. That’s Eastern time (Ontario and Quebec). Make sure you adjust your time if you live elsewhere. The ceremony is again hosted by Mark and Liz.
Links to livestream the ceremony will follow in the replies.

Voting for the 2025 Auroras is officially finished for the season! Stay tuned for the awards ceremony on Sunday Aug. 10, which will be live streamed on youtube and FB. Links to come.

LAST CHANCE to vote in the 2025 Aurora Awards!

If you're already a CSFFA member and haven't voted your favs yet, you STILL CAN until 11:59pm Eastern TONIGHT (Saturday, July 19)!

🔗 Link to vote www.csffa.ca

I hope you’ll consider Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 2 for Best Related Work

Today is the FINAL DAY to vote in this year's Aurora Awards. There are 7.5 hours left to so, in fact! (The voting portal will close after 11:59 PM Eastern Time).

If you are one of our members and haven't already submitted your votes, please go do so before you forget!!

#AuroraAwards2025

Well gee, thanks for doing that work Nick!

The Visual Presentation was 100% discontinued at that time, but I don't recall anywhere that it was announced. I'll ask the others and if there's something you can point to I'll reply back.

The 2025 Aurora ballot is live! Check out the finalists for each category here: www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Also someone with four items on the BSFA Award shortlist, she says politely and quietly.

p.s. did you know that 5 out of 6 Nebula novella finalists are also eligible for the Auroras?! Canadians are killing it this year!

Only 2 DAYS!!! left to get your nominations in for this year's Aurora Awards!

Nominations will close at 11:59 EDT on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

Please take a look through our awesome lists of eligible works and submit your nominations through our member portal at www.csffa.ca

Nominations are OPEN!
CSFFA members can now submit their nominations for works done in 2024. Our nomination form closes at 11:59pm Eastern Time on April 5th.

Any questions or concerns, you can contact us here or on our website!

Lastly, if you notice any errors or discrepancies on our eligibility lists, please reach out ASAP. We try to catch everything but only have so much bandwidth as a volunteer team, and an item or two does slip through the cracks from time to time.

If I may offer a humble recommendation, bookmark the link below and use it to browse and find works you'd like to nominate for an Aurora! The [INFO] links will take you directly to the work in some categories, like short story, where they are available publicly online.

www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

Thanks to everyone who submitted Canadian-authored works to our awards eligibility lists! The lists closed this past weekend and we are busy vetting the most recent entries before the Aurora Nominations period opens on March 1.