Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms (Grand Central Publishing), Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback (Tor) and Robert Charles Wilson's Axis (Tor) are among the 14 finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel.

No Canadians are finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction) this year.Read more

Nalo Hopkinson and Guy Gavriel Kay are among the finalists for the Mythopoeic Society's 2008 scholarship and literature awards.

All the nominees for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature are:Read more

On Thursday, June 5, 2008, Phyllis Gotlieb was presented the first SF Canada Lifetime Achievement Award at a reception at the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy in Toronto, in recognition of an outstanding and groundbreaking body of work in science fiction.

Ms. Gotlieb, 82, of Toronto is considered to be one of the founders of contemporary Canadian science fiction and has been a prominent voice in the field for over four decades.Read more

On May 8th, Kenneth Oppel's novel Darkwing won a Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award in the category of YA/Middle Reader.

Darkwing is also shortlisted for a Sunburst.

Nalo Hopkinson's 2007 novel The New Moon's Arms (Warner) won the Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English on May 18th at KeyCon 25 in Winnipeg. The full list of Aurora finalists and winners is here.

New Brunswick author K.V. Johansen's YA novel Nightwalker: The Warlocks of Talverdin (Orca Books) received the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature at the 2008 Atlantic Book Awards. The ceremony was held in Dartmouth, NS on May 12th.

The final ballot for the 2008 Aurora Awards was announced March 27.

Deadline for receipt of ballots is 7 May; the awards will be handed out at KeyCon 25 (hosting Canvention 28), which takes place from May 16–19 in Winnipeg.

Here is a partial list of nominees.
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Minister Faust's From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (Del Rey), which was shortlisted for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award, won a special citation at Norwescon on March 21st.

Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the ballot for the 2008 Hugo Awards. Robert J. Sawyer's Rollback (Tor; Analog October 2006 to Jan.-Feb. 2007) has been nominated in the novel category.

All the nominees, as well as the nominees for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, are listed here. The Hugo Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 9.

There were 483 nominating ballots.

Jo Walton's Ha'Penny (Tor) is a finalist for a 2008 Lambda Literary Award. The other science fiction, fantasy and horror works to be nominated were:Read more

• Dark Reflections, Samuel Delany (Carroll & Graf);
• And Now We Are Going to Have a Party, Nicola Griffith (Payseur & Schmidt; non-fiction);
• Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale (Blind Eye Books);
• A Companion to Wolves, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor);
• Spaceman Blues: A Love Song, Brian Francis Slattery (Tor); and