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

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

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.

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

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

Last day to nominate for the Auroras.

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

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!

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.

Reposting our Eligibility Lists for this awards season. So much has been added over the last few months, we're really happy to see so many Canadians active in the field. *We* can't highlight particular works, but *you* can! Share what's stood out with you & what others should consider nominating!

Thanks to @melaniemarttila.bsky.social for encouraging me to apply and helping me with the proposal. Thanks to @csffa.bsky.social for continuing to support & develop Canadian speculative fiction writers.

Mine is here! :) premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...

Mine is here: mariahaskins.com/2024/11/04/m...

here's mine thodestool.ca/blog/2025-aw...

Been seeing a few end-of-year award eligibility posts, but then they disappear into the nether regions of the feed before I can act on them. So: Canadian SFFH creators, please @ us with your eligibility posts! I'll try to get you added to our eligibility list, which is linked in our pinned post.

We have a LOT of new followers lately, thank you whoever added us to a starter pack somewhere. And thanks for following! We at CSFFA organize the annual Prix Aurora Awards to celebrate the "best" (ie. fan favourites) of Canadian speculative fiction. Our home is at www.csffa.ca

CSFFA's dates and deadlines for 2025 have been posted to our website here: www.csffa.ca/about/calend... The next two dates are: January 4 – Membership payments open, Eligibility Lists open for 2025 members, Development grants (Part 1) opens February 22 – Eligibility Lists close

A couple responses we got to our survey indicated that some people signed up hoping to access a Canadian writer community through our work. Yes, our name can be a bit ambiguous, it's important to clarify that we are primarily a fan-organized assn expressly aimed to recognize our favs through awards

New book announcement! I'm thrilled, thrilled, THRILLED to let you know Year's Best Canadian F&SF: Volume Two is available NOW in ebook from Kobo, B&N, and Amazon and that the trade paperback publishes this coming Tuesday, Nov 12th! Vol 2 is 25K+ longer than Vol 1...and it shows ;) #thicc

Thank you to everyone who responded to our survey, we received some excellent feedback that we're still discussing internally, some of which we're hoping to put into action over the coming months. It's still open, so ICYMI you can still fill it out here: forms.gle/JwAXZuKi9LfV...

If you have ever been a CSFFA member or participated in the Aurora Awards, please help us understand your experience and priorities by answering this brief member survey: forms.gle/xwizXeMCoUY9... We really, really appreciate it!

Our latest newsletter went out this morning, featuring the winners of the 2024 Aurora Awards, a link to our member survey, and a call for eligibility list volunteers. See the post for more details: mailchi.mp/csffa/june-2...

The folks at Augur Society, behind the Aurora Award-winning Augur Magazine, are running a (so far very successful) Kickstarter this month. So far it looks like we'll potentially have a new Canadian indie SFF press, which is great! Please check it out and support if you can.

The Aurora Awards ceremony this Sunday, Aug 11 @ 5pm EDT will be live-streamed on three separate platforms: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77S... Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/87787... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/72260...

The results of this year's voting are in and the winners of the 2024 Prix Aurora Awards will be revealed at our online awards ceremony next Sunday, August 11 at 5pm EDT: click the bell at the link to get notified when the livestream starts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77S...

Just over 24 hours left to get your votes in for this year's Aurora Awards. If you were planning to and haven't yet, please submit your votes at www.csffa.ca -- voting will officially close at 11:59pm EDT on Saturday July 13th (that's tomorrow!).

We are pleased to announce that this year’s Aurora Awards voters’ package is now available to download.  To access the link, log into your account at www.csffa.ca. These files are only available to download until Saturday, July 6th.  Voting for the awards closes the following Saturday.

Here's the ballot for the 2024 Aurora short story category -- unlike some SS ballots, most of these can't be found for free online so stay tuned for the voter's package to access them (and it's only $10 for a membership if you still haven't done that!) @premeemohamed.com @cornellwriter.bsky.social

Hope you're as excited as us about this Best Novelette/Novella ballot (feat. @tiffmorris.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @nalohop.bsky.social @thescreambean.bsky.social & @fondalee.bsky.social):

Big congrats to our 2024 Aurora Best YA Novel finalists @rati.bsky.social

Presenting the Best Novel finalists for the 2024 Prix Aurora Awards featuring @waub.bsky.social, @silviamg.bsky.social, @kateheartfield.com as well as Jessica Johns & Andrew F. Sullivan.

The 2024 Prix Aurora Award finalists are here! Check out the full list at www.csffa.ca/awards-infor... but we'll also be sharing each set of finalists over the next several days (and tagging creators if we can).

Want to learn more about the history of CSFFA and how we work? Earlier this month the podcast Two Old Farts Talk Sci Fi interviewed Cliff Samuels, our Aurora Awards Administrator about all things related to the Association. You can find the episode here: 2of.ca/season-5-epi...

*busts through the wall, Kool-Aid style* I have NEWS 😍 #books #novella #writing

#AuroraAwards PSA: Some Aurora Award Finalists have found the letter telling them they are on this year’s ballot was their email spam filter.  Please check yours to make sure you have not missed it.  Please reply back to the email address in the letter.

Only 10 HOURS to go until the nominating deadline for the Aurora Awards. If you haven't finalized your submissions, head over to www.csffa.ca to do so now!

Canadian book people! Your annual reminder that you can get paid for having your books in the library. It's money there for the taking, so take it!

"The House of Saints" audiobook is 50% off through April 11th! This novel concludes my scifi family saga duology set in the clouds of Venus, starring the Québécois :) The Engl. paperback of Saints releases this summer, as will the Fr. translation by @AlbinMichel! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

We've got @kateheartfield.com's beautiful revised & extended edition of her debut, The Chatelain, signed by the author! Winner of the Aurora Award, and shortlisted for the Crawford and Locus First Novel awards, this is the perfect gift for the Heartfield fans in your life. igg.me/at/locusmag2024

This is true! Members get access to a digital voters' package full of what nominators considered the most noteworthy Canadian speculative fiction of the year. And an annual CSFFA membership is only $10.

Come join us on Zoom this April 5/12pm EDT for a great book chat and some live readings. I’ll be reading from my novella, LOST CARGO. Plus there will be multiple giveaways. Register here: strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com

We're still getting set up here on bsky, so if you have any recommendations of Canadian SFFH authors, publishers, community members we should be following that we may have missed in our first pass at following folks, please @ us!

ICYMI: The deadline for 2024 Aurora Awards nominations is coming up soon -- April 6 at 11:59pm. There is still time to become a CSFFA member in order to submit nominations, just head over to our website at www.csffa.ca

Did you publish a short story in 2023 that included arthropods? Are they central to the story? Did you know that I am editing “Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction”? Did you know that you or your publisher can submit the story for consideration until April 2nd? 🪰🪳🦀🦞🐝🐞🦋

Having escaped The Bad Place, we're happy to meet up with so many folks from the Canadian spec fic community already here, and hope to keep you updated on all things CSFFA and Auroras, as well as maybe do some signal boosting for your great work and fandom.