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We are a non-profit dedicated to celebrating the best in Canadian speculative fiction. Run by a volunteer board, CSFFA facilitates the annual Prix Aurora Awards & administers the Canadian SF Hall of Fame: www.csffa.ca
Managed by @kalinstacey.bsky.social
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
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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/
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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...
2025 Aurora Awards – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
www.csffa.ca
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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.
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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...
The 2025 Aurora Awards
YouTube video by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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.
July 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Also someone with four items on the BSFA Award shortlist, she says politely and quietly.
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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!
April 4, 2025 at 2:24 AM