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Canvention 32 site selection

Alex — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:10:45 +0000

I’d like to invite everyone to participate in the site selection vote for Canvention 32. There are two bids, for VCON 37 in Vancouver and When Words Collide 2 in Calgary. This vote will be held at the annual general meeting of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, to be held at SFContario 2 on Saturday at 9 AM in the Gardenview room (of the Ramada Plaza Hotel). Bid representatives will be at the meeting to answer questions. Please have a look at the bid presentations on the SFContario website and help choose the site of next year’s Canadian national science fiction convention.

Scalzi reading at the Merril – Thursday night

Diane — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:50:55 +0000

You don’t have to wait until Friday for the fun to start. SFContario International Author Guest of Honour, John Scalzi, will give a public reading at the Merril Collection at 7 PM on Thursday night. On his blog, John says “I’ll likely read from Redshirts and then possibly a couple other things, and have a Q&A.”

All are welcome. More information here.

pre-order your t-shirt!

Alex — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:06:26 +0000

fuzzies and airships and what?

Check out the art Steve Stiles has done for t-shirts at SFContario 2! You can pre-order a t-shirt on our website and pick it up at the con.

SFContario membership rate extended to October 17

Alex — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:53:32 +0000

Along with the Aurora voting extension, SFContario will be extending the current membership rate of $55 until October 17. Please use our online registration page to register for the convention.

On October 18, the full attending membership rate will become $65. Other rates (young adult, child, charter) will also be increased accordingly. Online registration will still be accepted up to and during the convention.

Progress Report #2

Alex — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:16:46 +0000

Progress Report #2 is now online. PDF vesions for online reading and for offline printing, also .epub and .mobi versions for e-readers and smartphones. We will email the link to our members shortly.

CUFF Delegate Announced

Leah — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:12:13 +0000

CUFF results are in. It was a close race and I would like to thank both Kent Pollard and Danielle Stephens for running. These were both stellar candidates. It was a close race, but the final vote was 20 votes for Kent Pollard and 18 votes for Danielle Stephens, with 2 votes for no preference. Congratulations to our new CUFF delegate Kent Pollard!

— Diane Lacey , 2010 CUFF Delegate

Aurora Awards Nominees Announced

Murray — Tue, 17 May 2011 01:51:27 +0000

The English-language Aurora Awards for 2011 will be presented during SFContario 2.

If you are going to vote, you must pay the voting fee, unless you are a SFContario 2 member.

SFContario 2 is the host convention and members of SFContario 2 are relieved of the requirement to pay the voting fee to cast a ballot.

The SFContario 2 membership fee increases this coming Monday, May 23, so, if you buy your membership now, you save twice: vote later for free, and save money on your SFContario 2 membership now.

The 2011 English-language Aurora Award nominees are:

Professional Awards

Best English Novel

Black Bottle Man by Craig Russell, Great Plains Publications

Destiny’s Bloodby Marie Bilodeau, Dragon Moon Press

Stealing Home by Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press

Under Heavenby Guy Gavriel Kay, Viking Canada

Watch, by Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada

Best English Short Story

The Burden of Fireby Hayden Trenholm, Neo-Opsis #19

Destiny Lives in the Tattoo’s Needleby Suzanne Church, Tesseracts Fourteen, EDGE

The Envoyby Al Onia, Warrior Wisewoman 3, Norilana Books

Touch the Sky, They Sayby Matt Moore, AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, November

Your Beating Heart by M. G. Gillett, Rigor Amortis, Absolute Xpress

Best English Poem / Song

The ABCs of the End of the World by Carolyn Clink, A Verdant Green, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

Let the Night In by Sandra Kasturi, Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, EDGE

Of the Corn: Kore’s Innocence by Colleen Anderson, Witches & Pagans #21

The Transformed Man by Robert J. Sawyer, Tesseracts Fourteen, EDGE

Waiting for the Harrowing by Helen Marshall, ChiZine 45

Best English Graphic Novel

Goblins, Tarol Hunt, goblinscomic.com

Looking For Group, Vol. 3 by Ryan Sohmer and Lar DeSouza

Stargazer, Volume 1 by Von Allan, Von Allan Studio

Tomboy Tara,Emily Ragozzino, tomboytara.com

Best English Related Work

Chimerascope, Douglas Smith (collection), ChiZine Publications

The Dragon and the Stars,edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, DAW

Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead,edited by Nancy Kilpatrick, EDGE

On Spec, edited by Diane Walton, Copper Pig Writers Society

Tesseracts Fourteen,edited by John Robert Colombo and Brett Alexander Savory, EDGE

Best Artist (Professional and Amateur)

(An example of each artist’s work is listed below but they are to be judged on the body of work they have produced in the award year)

Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, Brekky cover art, On Spec Fall

Erik Mohr, cover art for ChiZine Publications

Christina Molendyk, Girls of Geekdom Calendar for Argent Dawn Photography

Dan O’Driscoll, cover art for Stealing Home

Aaron Paquette, A New Season cover art, On Spec Spring

Fan/ Amateur Awards

Best Fan Publications

No award will be given out in this category due insufficient eligible nominees

Best Fan Filk

Dave Clement and Tom Jeffersof Dandelion Wine for “Face on Mars” CD

Karen Linsley; concert as SFContario Guest of Honour

Phil Mills, for “Time Traveller” (song writing)

Best Fan Organizational

Andrew Gurudata, organizing the Constellation Awards

Brent M. Jans, chair of Pure Speculation (Edmonton)

Liana Kerzner, chair of Futurecon (Toronto)

Helen Marshalland Sandra Kasturi, chairs of Toronto SpecFic Colloquium (Toronto)

Alex Von Thorn, chair of SFContario (Toronto)

Best Fan Other

Tom Jeffers, Fundraising, FilKONtario

John and Linda Ross Mansfield, Conception of the Aurora Nominee pins

Lloyd Penney, Articles, columns and letters of comment – fanzines

Voting will begin in early June through the Prix Aurora Awards website on-line forms or by mail-in ballot. All ballots must be received by October 15, 2011, Midnight PST.

The French-language awards were presented during Le Congrès Boréal in Montreal.

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Murray