{"id":33412,"date":"2025-08-18T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33412"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:47:29","slug":"the-2025-aurora-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33412","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Aurora Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2025 Aurora Award Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Aurora Awards for excellence by Canadians in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.\u00a0 We want to congratulate all of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csffa.us21.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ae72220c142cde873209ad46e&amp;id=735a4a77ef&amp;e=41c4190247\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.csffa.ca\/aurora-archives-home\/2025-aurora-awards\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755570731532000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2NpDqzmdG5SdeZJwLXaYOb\">this year\u2019s nominees<\/a>.\u00a0 Full details about this year\u2019s awards and how voting and nominations went got our statistics document in our 2025 Archive page, <a href=\"https:\/\/csffa.us21.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ae72220c142cde873209ad46e&amp;id=89d712b6b8&amp;e=41c4190247\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.csffa.ca\/aurora-archives-home\/2025-aurora-awards\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755570731532000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2NpDqzmdG5SdeZJwLXaYOb\">https:\/\/www.csffa.ca\/aurora-archives-home\/2025-aurora-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The awards went to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Novel: \u00a0<strong>The Siege of Burning Grass<\/strong>, Premee Mohamed, Solaris<\/li>\n<li>Best YA Novel:\u00a0<strong>Heavenly Tyrant<\/strong>, Xiran Jay Zhao, Tundra Books<\/li>\n<li>Best Novelette\/Novella: \u00a0<strong>The Butcher of the Forest<\/strong>, Premee Mohamed, Tordotcom<\/li>\n<li>Best Short Story: \u201c<strong><em>Blood and Desert Dreams<\/em><\/strong>\u201c, Y.M. Pang, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 408<\/li>\n<li>Best Graphic Novel:\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way<\/strong>, Ryan North, art by Chris Fenoglio, IDW Publishing<\/li>\n<li>Best Poem\/Song \u201c<strong><em>Cthulhu on the Shores of Osaka<\/em><\/strong>\u201c, Y.M. Pang, Invitation: A One-shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Best Related Work:\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Year\u2019s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Two,<\/strong><br \/>\nStephen Kotowych, editor, Ansible Press<\/li>\n<li>Best Cover Art\/Interior Illustration:\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Augur Magazine, Issue 7.1<\/strong>, cover art, Martine Nguyen<\/li>\n<li>Best Fan Writing and Publication:\u00a0<strong>SF&amp;F Book Reviews<\/strong>, Robert Runt\u00e9, Ottawa Review of Books<\/li>\n<li>Best Fan Related Work: \u00a0<strong>murmurstations<\/strong>, Sonia Urlando, Augur Society, podcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The awards were live-streamed on Sunday, August 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2025, via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csffa.us21.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ae72220c142cde873209ad46e&amp;id=cde8e2dd08&amp;e=41c4190247\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3Dwy2k5h0AKKQ&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755570731532000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2_EYTD8kFHEbQq3_OZfPxz\">YouTube<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csffa.us21.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ae72220c142cde873209ad46e&amp;id=2e9e85f26d&amp;e=41c4190247\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1095142715461505&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755570731532000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3I13aav58wtNKe9dxK5r6r\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csffa.us21.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=ae72220c142cde873209ad46e&amp;id=a401805c8b&amp;e=41c4190247\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/events\/7358974581614788611\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755570731532000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3huQ7dLB152d08AR8gWje4\">LinkedIn<\/a>.\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Aurora Award Winners We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Aurora Awards for excellence by Canadians in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.\u00a0 We want to congratulate all of\u00a0this year\u2019s nominees.\u00a0 Full details about this year\u2019s awards and how voting and nominations went got our statistics document in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 2025 Aurora Award Winners<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[398,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-csffa-aurora-award-hall-of-fame"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33413,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33412\/revisions\/33413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}