Aurora Award for Best Short Fiction


The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best Short Fiction, was first recognized in 1986 as a separate category from Best Long-Form and was first granted as the Award for Best Short-Form, one granted to an English-language work and one to a French-language work, but did not become a dedicated category until 1989. In 1997 it was renamed to the Award for Best Short-Form Work and then again in 2012 it became the Award for Best Short Story, when the Prix Aurora and Prix Boreal combined, before adopting the name Award for Best Short Fiction a year later.
Robert J. Sawyer holds the highest number of awards for the English-language prize at 5 awards. Élisabeth Vonarburg and Yves Meynard hold the highest number of awards for the French-language prize at five each.
No winner was given in 1986, but a shortlist was created.

English-language Award

Winners and nominees

* Winners and joint winners
YearAuthorWorkCollection/PublicationRef.
1986Tesseracts
1986Tesseracts
1986Vancouver
1988*Amazing Stories
1989*Machine Sex and Other Stories
1989Writers of the Future
1989Amazing Stories
1989Machine Sex and Other Stories
1989
1990*On Spec
1990On Spec
1990On Spec
1990Analog
1990On Spec
1991*On Spec
1991Asimov's Science Fiction
1991Tor SF Double
1991Unknown
1991Sword and Sorceress
1992*Tesseracts
1992*Tesseracts
1992Aethlon
1992Man-Kzin Wars
1992Author's Choice Monthly
1992F&SF
1992Tesseracts
1992On Spec
1993* & David Nickle*Tesseracts
1993Tesseracts
1993Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction
1993Tesseracts
1993Northern Frights
1993On Spec
1993F&SF
1994*On Spec
1994On Spec
1994On Spec
1994F&SF
1994On Spec
1995*Asimov's Science Fiction
1995Northern Frights
1995Prairie Fire
1995Writer's Block
1995Just Write
1996*Northern Frights
1996Northern Frights
1996TransVersions
1996Northern Frights
1996F&SF
1997*Dark Destiny
1997Tesseracts
1997On Spec
1997Parsec
1997Tesseracts
1997Palace Corbie
1998*Asimov's Science Fiction
1998Tesseracts
1998Tesseracts
1998Free Space
1998On Spec
1998Tesseracts
1998Tesseracts
1998TransVersions
1999*Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas
1999On Spec
1999Science Fiction Age
1999Interzone
1999Parsec
2000*Packing Fraction & Other Tales of Science & Imagination
2000Parsec
2000Northern Frights
2000Parsec
2000Northern Frights
2000Tesseracts
2000Amazing Stories
2000Prairie Fire
2001*The Doom of Camelot
2001Star Colonies
2001Far Frontiers
2001Star Colonies
2001On Spec
2002*Silicon Dreams
2002Western Alumni Gazette
2002The Third Alternative
2002Weird Tales
2002The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
2002On Spec
2002On Spec
2003*Analog
2003Explorer: Tales from the Wonder Zone
2003Orbiter
200330th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction
2003Explorer: Tales from the Wonder Zone
2004*Low Port
2004Space, Inc.
2004Space, Inc.
2004Space, Inc.
2004The Stars As Seen from This Particular Angle of Night
2005*ReVisions
2005Interzone
2005So Long Been Dreaming
2005Odyssey: Tales From the Wonder Zone
2005Neo-opsis
2005Space Stations
2005Girls Who Bite Back
2006*Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology
2006The Engine of Recall
2006Cicada
2006Down These Dark Spaceways
2006On Spec
2006 & Derryl MurphyTesseracts
2006Women of War
2007*Slipstreams
2007Mythspring
2007Neo-opsis
2007Slipstreams
2007Mythspring
2008*Challenging Destiny
2008Under Cover of Darkness
2008On Spec
2008Abyss & Apex
2008Writers of the Future
2009*Tesseracts
2009Weird Tales
2009Analog
2009Impossibilia
2009Postscripts
2010*Women of the Apocalypse
2010Ages of Wonder
2010Tesseracts
2010Campus Chills
2010ChiZine Productions
2011*Neo-opsis
2011Tesseracts
2011Warrior Wisewoman
2011AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review
2011Rigor Amortis
2012*Chilling Tales: Evil I Did Dwell; Lewid Did I Live
2012When the Hero Comes Home
2012The 2nd Circle
2012Asimov's Science Fiction
2012Analog
2013*On Spec
2013Torn Realities
2013When the Villain Comes Home
2013On Spec
2013Clarkesworld
2014*The Puzzle Box
2014The Puzzle Box
2014The Puzzle Box
2014Masked Mosaic, Canadian Super Stories
2014Urban Green Man
2014Urban Green Man
2014When the Hero Comes Home
2015*Analog
2015Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction
2015Tesseracts
2015Beneath Ceaseless Skies
2015Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction
2016*tor.com
2016 & Tony PiThe Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
2016Galaxy's Edge
2016F&SF
2016Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft
2016Caped: An Anthology of Superhero Tales
2017*Strangers Among Us
2017Strangers Among Us
2017Strangers Among Us
2017Strangers Among Us
2017The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
2017On Spec
2018*The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound
2018Enigma Front: The Monster Within
2018tor.com
2018When the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
2018When the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
2019*Tor.com Publications
2019Tales From Plexis
2019Tor.com Publications
2019Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders
2019InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 62

French-language Award

Winners and nominees

* Winners and joint winners
YearAuthorWorkCollection/PublicationRef.
1986*Dix nouvelles de science-fiction québécoise
1987*Montréal
1988*Solaris
1989*L'Année de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Québécois - 1987
1990*Imagine...
1991*Octa
1992*Sol
1993*Solaris
1994*Solaris
1995*Solaris
1995*Imagine...
1996*Unknown
1997*Genèses
1998*Solaris
1999*Fantasy
2000*Solaris
2001* & Benoît Domis*Tesseracts
2002*Solaris
2003*Solaris
2004*Recueils
2005*Solaris
2006*Solaris
2007*Solaris
2008*Solaris
2009*Solaris
2010*Solaris
2011*Solaris
2012*Unknown
2013*Unknown
2014*Les Six Brumes
2014Solaris
2014Solaris
2015*Solaris
2015Solaris
2015Brins d'éternité
2015Solaris
2015Solaris
2015Brins d'éternité
2016*Solaris
2016Solaris
2016Clair/Obscure
2016L'Arracheur de rêves
2016Bizarro
2017*Solaris
2017Solaris
2017Brins d’éternité
2017Solaris
2017Galaxie
2017Solaris
2017Solaris
2017Clair/Obscur
2017Brins d’éternité
2017Solaris
2018*Les Six Brumes
2018Solaris
2018Les Six Brumes
2018Solaris
2018Les Six Brumes