2026 CSFFA Registration Opens, Book Club Meeting Jan. 22
Jan. 2026 CSFFA Newsletter drops, including: registration for the year is open, and our first book club meeting is happening on Jan. 22 (featuring @cjdwriter.bsky.social!) to talk A JUDGMENT OF DRAGONS and matron saint of Canadian spec fic, Phyllis Gotlieb.
mailchi.mp/csffa/jan-2026
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Egads, typo in the title! Look away, you didn't see.
19.12.2025 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Season's Greetings, Book Club Launces in January & CSFFA's 2026 Calendar
Happy Holidays from CSFFA!
Check out the info for our Aurora Book Club, launching in January with Phyllis Gotlieb's "A Judgment of Dragons" and a book club event featuring special guest @cjdwriter.bsky.social!
+ CSFFA's 2026 Calendar & Aurora Eligibility Reminder
mailchi.mp/csffa/dec-2025
19.12.2025 17:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
Jean-Louis Trudel, 1967-2025
Please find an announcement from us on the tragic passing of our friend and fellow board member, Jean-Louis Trudel.
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05.12.2025 18:14 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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
05.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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/
05.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of Fame
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/
05.11.2025 15:07 — 👍 28 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 4
Eligibility Lists Are Open, and Announcing the Aurora Book Club📚
After skipping October, our November newsletter is out: mailchi.mp/csffa/nov-2025
05.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
06.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 2 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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
24.08.2025 17:48 — 👍 31 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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
23.08.2025 19:01 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
2025 Aurora Awards – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
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...
18.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
18.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
18.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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
18.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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
18.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 3
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.
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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.
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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...
07.08.2025 04:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
07.08.2025 04:12 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 3
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.
20.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
19.07.2025 20:11 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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
19.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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.
19.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last day to nominate for the Auroras.
05.04.2025 10:29 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Also someone with four items on the BSFA Award shortlist, she says politely and quietly.
04.04.2025 15:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
04.04.2025 02:24 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) – Home of the Prix Aurora Awards and CSFFA Hall of FameSearchToggle MenuFacebookToggle Menu CloseSearch
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
04.04.2025 02:23 — 👍 24 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 11
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!
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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022).
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Folklore PhD, author, poet, musician.
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Canadian writer of speculative fiction who buys more books & comics than he can ever hope to read. Viable Paradise (VP19), Codex, TWUOC, CSFFA, Playwright Junction. Cancer Survivor. He/Him
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