Aurora Awards 2026
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August 9, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Novel
- The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Blight, Rachel A. Rosen (BumblePuppy)
- Direct Descendant, Tanya Huff (Astra House; DAW)
- The Downloaded 2: Ghost in the Machine, Robert J. Sawyer (Shadowpaw)
- Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett (Del Rey)
- A Shift of Time, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
- Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay (Ace)
Ya Novel
- Breath of the Dragon, Fonda Lee & Shannon Lee (Wednesday)
- Fireboy, Edward Willett (Shadowpaw)
- A Lion's Head, D. M. De Alwis (Ahasae Tharu)
- Minotaur, Jamieson Wolf (Queer Space)
- One Morning Sun, Avi Silver (Molewhale)
- Winging It, Jen Desmarais (Renaissance)
Short Story
- “Hunted to Extinction”, Premee Mohamed (The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand)
- “I Ain't Your Doll Face”, Jacqueline Thorpe (Polar Borealis Mar 2025)
- “the love song of house and lake”, Gillian Secord (On Spec Sep 2025)
- “The Stone Played at Tengen”, R. H. Wesley (Clarkesworld Nov 2025)
- “What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht”, Rachel A. Rosen (Antifa Lit Journal, Volume 1: What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire’s Yacht?)
Novelette/novella
- The First Thousand Trees, Premee Mohamed (ECW)
- “In the Gardener's Service”, Michèle Laframboise (Asimov's Jul/Aug 2025)
- “The Lure of Stone”, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2026)
- A Palace Near the Wind, Ai Jiang (Titan)
- The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)
Related Work
- As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre (Spiderline)
- Augur, Azure Arther, Kerry C. Byrne, André Geleynse, Toria Liao & Kelley Tai, eds.
- On Spec, Diane L. Walton, ed. (The Copper Pig Writers' Society)
- One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
- Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible)
Graphic Novel/comic
- Atana and the Jade Mermaid, Vivian Zhou (HarperAlley)
- “Bonds of the Forest”, Ally Rom (Augur 8.3)
- It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (self-published)
- Questionable Content, Jeph Jacques (self-published)
- Shark Girl, Kate Beaton (Quill and Quire)
Poem/song
- “At the Spaceport Bar”, Lisa Timpf (Polar Starlight Feb 2025)
- “Bigfoot Farewell”, Carolyn Clink (Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters)
- “Dragon Karaoke”, David Clink (Polar Starlight Apr 2025)
- “Explosive”, Derek Newman-Stille (Polar Starlight Aug 2025)
- “flowers without meadow”, Tiffany Morris (Eye to the Telescope Apr 2025)
- “From Dust”, J. Y. Zhang (Small Wonders Dec 2025)
Cover Art/interior Illustration
- Janice Blaine for “Dancing with the Holly King” (On Spec Win 2025)
- Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe for “Listen to Me and I'll Tell You a Story” (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2025)
- Dan O'Driscoll for “Lunar Base” (On Spec Sum 2025)
- Alice M. for “Seance” (Heartlines Spec Spr 2025)
- Lorna Antoniazzi for Starship Librarians (Tyche)
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