The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc.
The Award for Best Novella/Novelette was first awarded in 2021. It became a dedicated category, distinct from the Award for Best Novel and Award for Best Short Fiction, providing additional exposure for medium length sci-fi and fantasy literature, and represents writing with scope and word count between the two.
Derek Künsken won the first award for his 2020 novella/novelette "Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County".
* Winners and joint winners
Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication | Ref. |
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2021 | Derek Künsken * | "Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County" [Text1] | Asimov's (Vol 44, No 7&8), Jul/Aug 2020 | [1] [2] |
Ian Rogers | “Go Fish” [Text2] | Tor.com, 15 Apr 2020 | [1] [2] | |
Rich Larson | “How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar” [Text3] | Tor.com, 15 Jan 2020 | ||
L. X. Beckett | “The Immolation of Kev Magee” [Text4] | Clarkesworld (#167), Aug 2020 | ||
Rebecca Campbell | “An Important Failure” [Text5] | Clarkesworld (#167), Aug 2020 | ||
A. C. Wise | “To Sail the Black” [Text6] | Clarkesworld (#170), Nov 2020 | ||
2022 | Premee Mohamed * | The Annual Migration of Clouds | ECW Press | [3] [4] [5] |
Julie E. Czerneda | “Decay in Five Stages” | Derelict (2021), ed. David B Coe and Joshua Palmatier | [3] [4] [5] | |
Hayden Trenholm & Liz Westbrook-Trenholm | “Lay Down Your Heart” | Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories (2021), ed. Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law | ||
Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Return of the Sorceress | Subterranean Press | ||
Premee Mohamed | These Lifeless Things | Solaris Books | ||
2023 | Fonda Lee * | The Jade Setter of Janloon | Subterranean Press | [6] |
C. L. Polk | Even Though I Knew the End | Tordotcom | [6] | |
Kelly Robson | High Times in the Low Parliament | Tordotcom | ||
Eric Choi | A Sky and a Heaven | Just Like Being There | ||
Silvia Moreno-Garcia | The Tiger Came to the Mountains | Amazon Original Stories |
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