Awards
Awards by Award Name:
Alberta Magazine Awards | Aurora Awards | Astounding Award | CBC Bookies Awards
Juried Indie Author Project | Prix Bob Morane | Prix Masterton | Sunburst Awards
Best of Anthologies | Contests
Awards by Year
2025 – Finalist, Aurora Award: THE LOST EXPEDITION: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 3 (Best YA Novel)2024 – Finalist, Aurora Award: THE CRYSTAL KEY: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 2 (Best YA Novel)2024 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "If I Should Fall Behind" (Best Short Story)2024 – Selection, The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol.2: "If I Should Fall Behind"2023 – WINNER, Aurora Award: THE HOLLOW BOYS: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 1 (Best YA Novel)2023 – WINNER, Juried IAP Award: THE HOLLOW BOYS: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 1 (Best YA Novel)2023 – Finalist, Alberta Magazine Awards: "Gypsy Biker's Coming Home" (Fiction)2013 – WINNER, Aurora Award: "The Walker of the Shifting Borderland" (Best Short Story)2012 – Juried Short List Selection, Prix Masterton (France): LA DANSE DES ESPRITS (Best Collection)2012 – Juried Short List Selection, Prix Bob Morane (France): LA DANSE DES ESPRITS (Best Collection)2011 – Finalist, The Sunburst Award: CHIMERASCOPE (collection)2011 – Finalist, Aurora Award: CHIMERASCOPE (Best Related Work / collection)2011 – Finalist, CBC Bookies Award: CHIMERASCOPE (Best Collection)2009 – Finalist, Aurora Award: IMPOSSIBILIA (Best Long Form / collection)2010 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Radio Nowhere" (Best Short Story)2009 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "A Bouquet of Flowers in Vase, by van Gogh" (Best Short Story)2009 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Doorways" (Best Short Story)2008 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "The Dancer at the Red Door" (Best Short Story)2006 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Going Harvey in the Big House" (Best Short Story)2005 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Enlightenment" (Best Short Story)2005 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Jigsaw" (Best Short Story)2004 – WINNER, Aurora Award: "Scream Angel" (Best Short Story)2002 – Selection, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #13: "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down"2002 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" (Best Short Story)2002 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "The Red Bird" (Best Short Story)2002 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "La Parade du Hoyl" (Best Short Story / translation)2001 – Finalist, Astounding Award for Best New Writer2001 – WINNER, Aurora Award: "La Danse des Esprits" (Best Short Story / translation)2000 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "State of Disorder" (Best Short Story)2000 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Symphony" (Best Short Story)1999 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "New Year's Eve" (Best Short Story)1998 – Finalist, Aurora Award: "Spirit Dance" (Best Short Story)
The Aurora Award
The Aurora Awards are Canada's national Science Fiction & Fantasy Awards, as voted on by readers and fans. They are presented at each year's "Canvention."
Doug has won the Aurora Award four times and has been a finalist another nineteen times and in five different categories. He is the only person to have won the award in both official languages.
WINNER:2023 – THE HOLLOW BOYS: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 1 (Best YA Novel)2013 – "The Walker of the Shifting Borderland" (Best Short Story)2004 – "Scream Angel" (Best Short Story)2001 – "La Danse des Esprits" (Best Short Story / translation)
Finalist2025 – THE LOST EXPEDITION: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 3 (Best YA Novel)2024 – THE CRYSTAL KEY: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 2 (Best YA Novel)2024 – "If I Should Fall Behind" (Best Short Story)2023 – THE HOLLOW BOYS: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 1 (Best YA Novel)2013 – "The Walker of the Shifting Borderland" (Best Short Story)2011 – CHIMERASCOPE (Best Related Work / collection)2009 – IMPOSSIBILIA (Best Long Form / collection)2010 – "Radio Nowhere" (Best Short Story)2009 – "A Bouquet of Flowers in Vase, by van Gogh" (Best Short Story)2009 – "Doorways" (Best Short Story)2008 – "The Dancer at the Red Door" (Best Short Story)2006 – "Going Harvey in the Big House" (Best Short Story)2005 – "Enlightenment" (Best Short Story)2005 – "Jigsaw" (Best Short Story)2004 – "Scream Angel" (Best Short Story)2002 – "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" (Best Short Story)2002 – "The Red Bird" (Best Short Story)2002 – "La Parade du Hoyl" (Best Short Story / translation)2001 – "La Danse des Esprits" (Best Short Story / translation)2000 – "State of Disorder" (Best Short Story)2000 – "Symphony" (Best Short Story)1999 – "New Year's Eve" (Best Short Story)1998 – "Spirit Dance" (Best Short Story)
The Juried Indie Author Project Award
The Indie Author Project is a publishing community that works with librarians across North America and top curation partners, including Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, to highlight "the best indie-published ebooks each region has to offer in adult and young adult fiction."
The juried IAP Award competition runs in the US and Canada and considers hundreds of titles from indie authors each year. The award has run since 2018 and is aimed at bringing indie titles of note to the attention of librarians, especially those in charge of acquiring titles. Winning titles appear in a full page spread in Library Journal, one of the IAP's partners.
WINNER:2023 – THE HOLLOW BOYS: THE DREAM RIDER SAGA, BOOK 1 (Best YA Novel)
The Astounding Award — Best New Writer
Doug was a finalist in 2001 for the Astounding Award, (formerly the John W. Campbell Award) given each year at the World Science Fiction convention to the best new writer of science fiction & fantasy.
The Sunburst Award
The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award celebrating the excellence of writing in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year. A jury first selects a short list of five works in two categories: Adult and Young Adult. A winner is then chosen from each category. Winners receive a cash prize of $1,000 and a hand-crafted medallion which incorporates the "Sunburst" logo, designed by Marcel Gagné. The Sunburst Award takes its name from the debut novel of the late Phyllis Gotlieb, one of the first published authors of contemporary Canadian speculative fiction.
Short List Selection — Adult Fiction:2011 – CHIMERASCOPE (collection)
The CBC Bookies Awards
The Bookies were reader-voted annual awards of the CBC Book Club, with awards given in sixteen different categories.
Finalist — Best Collection:2011 – CHIMERASCOPE
The Alberta Magazine Awards
An annual juried awards program of the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association which "honours and celebrates the work of magazine makers – the editors, art directors, writers, photographers, illustrators, and other creators" in Alberta.
Finalist — Fiction:2023 – "Gypsy Biker's Coming Home" (On Spec Magazine, July 2022)
The Prix Masterton
The Prix Masterton is a juried French award established in 2000 by Marc Bailly to pay tribute to Graham Masterton, "a writer who has left his mark on fantasy literature since the late 1970s." The prize is awarded in three categories: Best Novel in French, Best Translated Novel, and Best Short Story Collection, all within the literature of the fantastic.
Juried Short List Selection — Best Collection:2012 – LA DANSE DES ESPRITS
The Prix Bob Morane
The Prix Bob Morane is a juried French award established in 1999 to pay tribute to Bob Morane, the fictional creation of French writer Henri Vernes. The character appeared in comic books, television series, cartoons and even video games. The prize is awarded in three categories: Best Novel in French, Best Translated Novel, and Best Short Story Collection, for works in any of the genres covered by Morane's adventures: science fiction, fantasy, espionage, and thrillers.
Juried Short List Selection — Best Collection:2012 – LA DANSE DES ESPRITS
"Best of" Anthologies
The Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol.22024 – "If I Should Fall Behind" (selection)The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #132002 – "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" (selection)Year's Best Fantasy & Horror2004 – "Scream Angel" (honourable mention)2000 – "State of Disorder" (honourable mention)2000 – "Spirit Dance" (honourable mention)Imaginarium 2013: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing2013 – "The Walker of the Shifting Borderland" (honourable mention)ISFDB Top Stories of the Year2000 – "La Danse des Esprits" (translation of "Spirit Dance")
Contests
Prairie Fire Science Fiction Short Story Contest1999 – "Symphony" (2nd prize)
