EP 487 - Aurora Awards 2026 Post Mortem with Liz May Anderson

Aug 13, 2026

Mark chats with his partner Liz Anderson after the livestream broadcast of the 2026 Aurora Awards which they co-hosted. They have this reflective dicussion on a back-yard deck in front of a gas table fire.

Prior to the main content, Mark shares a brief personal update and a word from this episode's sponsors.

This episode is sponsored, in part, by an affiliate link to Manuscript Report. Use code MARK10 at checkout and save 10% off your own personalized report.

Because the entire episode is a reflection, Mark doesn't share a reflection here.

But he DOES share a bit of a written reflection in this week's Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing Substack: Storytelling With Building Bookshelves, Work, and Living Space.

Links of Interest:

 

• Episode 429 - A Post-Mortem on Hosting the 2025 Aurora Awards with Liz May Anderson
• Episode 301 - Procrastinating Partners: Collaborating with Liz May Anderson
• The CSFFA Aurora Awards
• The Aurora Awards hosting by Mark and Liz
  • 2026 Aurora Awards (Full Broadcast) 
  • 2026 Aurora Awards Opening Schtick/Cold Open
  • 2022 Aurora Awards Opening Schtick/Cold Open
  • 2023 Aurora Awards Opening Schtick/Cold Open
  • 2024 Aurora Awards Opening Schtick/Cold Open
  • 2025 Aurora Awards Opening Schtick/Cold Open
• Manuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%)
• Buy Mark a Coffee
• Patreon for Stark Reflections
• Mark's YouTube channel
• ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link)
• Mark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)
• Stark Realities Book
• An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
• The Relaxed Author
  • Buy eBook Direct
  • Buy Audiobook Direct
• Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
• Wide for the Win
• Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes
• Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
  • This Time Around (Short Story)
  • A Canadian Werewolf in New York
  • Stowe Away (Novella)
  • Fear and Longing in Los Angeles
  • Fright Nights, Big City
  • Lover's Moon
  • Hex and the City
  • Only Monsters in the Building
  • Once Bitten (Novella)
• The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
• Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• I Think It's A Sign That The Pun Also Rises

 

 

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The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0