This is a Canadian SF award. The finalists are as follows:

From the Aurora Award Administrators:
We are pleased to announce the 2021 Aurora Awards Ballot. The ballot is for works and activities done by Canadians in 2020. Voting will begin on July 31, 2021 and close at 11:59pm EDT on September 4, 2021. A virtual awards ceremony will be hosted by Can-Con (www.can-con.org) on October 16, 2021.

The finalists are:

Best Novel

Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed, Solaris
A Connecticut Gumshoe in King Arthur’s Court, Randy McCharles, Tyche Books
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Random House Publishing Group
The Oppenheimer Alternative, Robert J. Sawyer, Red Deer Press
A Stitch in Time, Kelley Armstrong, KLA Fricke

Best Young Adult Novel

Dragon Assassin, Arthur Slade, Scholastic Canada
Flights of Marigold, Susan Forest, Laksa Media Groups Inc.
The Gryphon’s Lair, Kelley Armstrong, Puffin Canada
Hollow, Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books
Wall of Wishes, Suzy Vadori, Old Vines Press

Best Novelette/Novella

“Go Fish”, Ian Rogers, Tor.com
“The Immolation of Kev Magee“, L.X. Beckett (pseudonym for A.M. Dellamonica), Clarkesworld, Issue 167, Aug
“An Important Failure“, Rebecca Campbell, Clarkesworld, Issue 167, Aug
“The Joy in Wounding“, Charlotte Ashley, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec
“How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar”, Rich Larson, Tor.com
“To Sail the Black“, A.C. Wise, Clarkesworld, Issue 170, Nov
“Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County“, Derek Künsken, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July/Aug

Best Short Story

“All Cats Go to Valhalla“, Chadwick Ginther, Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas, Tyche Books
“The Bone-Stag Walks“, KT Bryski, Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 123, August
“Breathe“, Calvin D. Jim, Prairie Gothic, Prairie Soul Press
“Grass Gods“, Elizabeth Whitton, Prairie Gothic, Prairie Soul Press
“Night Folk“, Barb Galler-Smith, Galaxy’s Edge Magazine, Issue 47, November
“So You Want to be a Honeypot“, Kelly Robson, Uncanny Magazine, March/April

Best Graphic Novel/Comic

Crash and Burn, Kate Larking and Finn Lucullan, Astres Press
Goblins, Ellipsis Hana Stephens, Goblins Comic
Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures, edited by S.M. Beiko, Renegade Arts Entertainment
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren, webcomic
Krampus is My Boyfriend!, S.M. Beiko, Webtoon
Northwest Resistance, Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson, Highwater Press

Best Poem/Song

“Arachnoid Cyst“, Dominik Parisien, This Magazine, March/April
“Back Story“, David Clink, Strange Horizons, Issue 21, September
“The Death of the Gods“, Leah Bobet, Uncanny Magazine #32
“Electra“, Y.M. Pang, Arsenika
“Hamilton Harbour“, Lynne Sargent, A Refuge of Tales, Renaissance Press
“he scores“, Beth Cato and Rhonda Parrish, Star*Line, Summer
“Masquerade“, Colleen Anderson, On Spec, Issue 115, vol 31 no 1
“Nidhog“, Jo Walton, The Book of Dragons, Harper Voyager

Best Related Work

Augur Magazine, Issues 3.1 and 3.2, published by Kerry C. Byrne, Alexander De Pompa, and Lawrence Stewen
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, Amanda Leduc, Coach House Books
On Spec Magazine, Diane L. Walton, Managing Editor, The Copper Pig Writers Society
PodCastle edited by Jen R. Albert and Cherae Clark, host Setsu Uzumé, and producer Peter Adrian Behravesh, Escape Artists Inc.
Prairie Gothic, edited by Stacey Kondla, Prairie Soul Press
Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas, edited by Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books

Best Visual Presentation

Don’t Text Back, Kaye Adelaide and Mariel Sharp, Fantasia Film Festival
Murdoch Mysteries, Season 13, episodes 10-18, Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Peter Mitchell, Yannick Bisson, and Hélène Joy, Shaftesbury
Trickster, episodes 1-6, Michelle Latimer and Tony Elliott, Streel Films, Sienna Films, and CBC
The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, Netflix
Wynonna Earp, Season 4, episodes 1-6, Emily Andras, Seven24 Films Calgary

Best Artist

Lorna Antoniazzi, covers for Augur Magazine Issues 3.1 and 3.2
Samantha M. Beiko, cover for Flights of the Marigold, Laska Media Group
Swati Chavda, art, maps, and covers for multiple publications
Dan O’Driscoll, cover for Corona Burning
Maia Kondla-Wolf, cover for Prairie Gothic, Prairie Soul Press

Best Fan Writing and Publication

BCSFAzine, Issues #538 to #547, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
Clubhouse, weekly column in Amazing Stories Magazine, R. Graeme Cameron, online
Polar Borealis, Issues #13 to #16, edited by R. Graeme Cameron
Random Musings, Issue #539 to #547 in BCSFAzine, Robert J. Sawyer
Travelling TARDIS, Jennifer Desmarais, JenEric Designs
Young People Read Old SFF, edited by James Davis Nicoll, online

Best Fan Related Work

2020 Aurora Awards Ceremony, Mark Leslie Lefebvre and Liz Anderson, online event
AugurCon, Kerry C. Byrne and Terese Mason Pierre, Augur Magazine Literary Society
ephemera reading series, KT Bryski and Jen R. Albert, ephemera Collective, online
Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy, Derek Newman-Stille
When Words Collide, Randy McCharles, chair, online festival