Eden Robinson's Trickster Drift shortlisted for 2019 Sunburst Award for Canadian fantasy writing
Jane van Koeverden | | Posted: July 29, 2019 4:10 PM | Last Updated: July 29, 2019
Eden Robinson's novel Trickster Drift is among the finalists of the 2019 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
The fantasy writing prize annually awards $1,000 to each of their adult fiction and YA fiction category winners.
Trickster Drift is the second in Robinson's trilogy, which follows a teenage boy's discovery that his father is a mischievous supernatural being known as a trickster.
"The down-to-earth prose of Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson plunges readers into the fully realized story of a young boy mired in a milieu of addictions, magic and family, battling to make something of himself," said the award in a press release.
"Humorous and filled with memorable characters with entangled relationships to each other and to their world, this novel considers to what extent a person can remake himself and how much he is influenced by his universe and the people in it."
A television adaptation of the trickster series is coming to CBC television in 2020.
The first novel in the series, Son of a Trickster, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The full adult fiction shortlist includes:
- Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
- Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax
- Armed in Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield
- Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn
- Annex by Rich Larson
The full young adult fiction shortlist includes:
- Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
- Black Chuck by Regan McDonell
- Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
The jury for adult and young adult fiction includes writers Greg Bechtel, Susan Forest, Kari Maaren and Susan Reynolds.
The 2019 Sunburst Awards also have a short story category, which comes with a $500 prize. The finalists are:
- The Glow-In-The-Dark Girls by Senaa Ahmad, published in Strange Horizons
- Domestic Violence by Madeline Ashby, published in Slate
- Candied Sweets, Cornbread, and Black-Eyed Peas by Malon Edwards, published in Sword and Sonnet
- Meat And Salt And Sparks by Rich Larson, published on Tor.com
- The Time Traveler's Husband by A.C. Wise, published in Shimmerzine
The short story prize will be judged by YA fantasy writer S.M. Beiko, playwright, horror author and CBC public relations senior specialist David Demchuk and horror writer and film critic Gemma Files.
The winners will be announced in the fall of 2019.