This year's longlist for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize has been released. The shortlist will be announced in mid-October, with a winner named November 17. The longlisted titles are:
Chasing the Stars by Malorie Blackman
The Marvels by Brian Selznick
Riverkeep by Martin Stewart
Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle
The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
Sweet Pizza by G.R. Gemin
Hell and High Water by Tanya Landman
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
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The Center for Fiction has announced the long list for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. The winner, who will be announced on December 6, receives $10,000, and each shortlisted author receives $1,000.
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Shortlists for the Sunburst Awards, sponsored by the Sunburst Award Society and honoring "the best in Canadian fantastika," have been announced. Winners will be named September 14, with adult fiction and young adult fiction winners each receiving C$1,000 (about US$762), and the winner of the short story category--a new category--receiving C$500 (US$381). The shortlisted titles are:
Adult Fiction:
The Little Washer of Sorrows by Katherine Fawcett (Thistledown Press)
Experimental Film by Gemma Files (Chizine Publications)
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Solaris)
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill (HarperCollins)
The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)
Young Adult Fiction:
An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet (Scholastic Canada)
Sight Unseen by David Carroll (Scholastic Canada)
The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett (HarperCollins)
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel (HarperCollins)
Boo by Neil Smith (Knopf)
Short Story:
"La Héron" by Charlotte Ashley (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
"The Glad Hosts: by Rebecca Campbell (Lackington's Magazine)
"Stuck in the Past" by Mike Donoghue (Abyss & Apex)
"Hide and Seek" by Catherine A. MacLeod (Playground of Lost Toys, Exile Editions)
"Two-Year Man" by Kelly Robson (Asimov's Science Fiction)
"Get the Message" by Peter Wendt (Second Contacts, Bundoran Press)