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Read about Awards for Members of the Trillium
Chapter of the Horror Writers Association.
EDO VAN BELKOM GARNERS AURORA AWARD
For editing Young Adult Anthology
BE VERY AFRAID!
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Edo van Belkom was presented the Aurora Award (Canada's top prize
for speculative writing) Saturday at the 61st World Science
Fiction Convention held in Toronto, for his editing of the young
adult horror anthology BE VERY AFRAID!
Published by Tundra Books in 2002, BE VERY AFRAID! features 14
stories about teenagers facing some of their deepest and darkest
fears, from the perils of the internet to the dangers of dieting,
from wanting to fit in to the awkwardness of developing
sexuality. BE VERY AFRAID! is a sequel to BE AFRAID! published by
Tundra Books in 2000, which was an Aurora Award nominee and
shortlisted for the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult
Book of the Year.
Contributors to BE VERY AFRAID! include: Michael Arruda, Randy D.
Ashburn, Loren L. Barrett, Mark A. Garland, Ed Greenwood, Tanya
Huff, Michael Kelly, David Nickle, Tom Piccirilli, Edmund Plante,
Michael Rowe, Robert J. Sawyer, Edo van Belkom and Sheri White.
It is the second time Edo has won an Aurora Award. He won the
Best Short Form Work in English award in 1999 for his short story
"Hockey's Night in Canada" (which has just been reprinted for the
third time in the Key Porter Books anthology WORDS ON ICE.)
Edo's most recent novel SCREAM QUEEN is currently available in
bookstores across North America.
The Aurora Awards are voted on by open ballot by Canadian science
fiction, fantasy and horror readers and fans. They are awarded in
10 categories to the best English and French language works
published by Canadian authors in the previous calendar year.
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The 2003 Prix Aurora Awards, presented on Saturday, August 30th,
at Torcon 3 (2003 SF Worldcon) in Toronto.
- Best Work in English (Other)
Edo van Belkom, for editing Be VERY Afraid!
(Tundra Books)
- Best Long-Form Work in English
Permanence, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
- Best Long-Form Work in French
Le Revenant de Fomalhaut, Jean-Louis Trudel
(Mediaspaul)
- Best Short-Form Work in English
"Ineluctable", Robert J. Sawyer
(Analog Nov/2002)
- Best Short-Form Work in French
"La Guerre sans temps", Sylvie Berard
(Solaris 143)
- Artistic Achievement
Mel Vavaroutsos
- Fan Achievement (Publication)
Made in Canada Newsletter, Don Bassie, ed.
[webzine]
- Fan Achievement (Organizational)
Georgina Miles (Toronto Trek 16)
- Fan Achievement (Other)
Jason Taniguchi, one-man SF parody shows
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