Nominations for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s Elgin Award closed May 15, and Josh Brown, the 2017 Elgin Award Chair reports the final list of nominees has been posted to the SFPA website.
The award is named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, and is presented in two categories, Chapbook and Book.
| Chapbooks |
| Apocalypse • John C. Mannone (Alban Lake, 2015) |
| An Assortment of Sky Things • Christina Sng (Allegra Press, 2016) |
| Corona Obscura • Michael R. Collings (CreateSpace, 2016) |
| Energy (or the Art of Keeping it Together) • Susan Gray (Burning Eye Books, 2016) |
| Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks • (Porkbelly Press, 2016) |
| Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender • (Porkbelly Press, 2016) |
| hiku [pull] by James A. H. White • (Porkbelly Press, 2016) |
| In Favor of Pain • Angel Yuriko Smith (CreateSpace, 2016) |
| Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak • Stacey Balkun (dancing girl press, 2016) |
| Leviathan • Neil Aitken (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) |
| Lost City Museum • Stacey Balkun (ELJ Publications, 2016) |
| The Mole People by Heather Cox (Bat Cat Press, 2016) |
| Moon Facts • Bob Schofield (Nostrovia! Press, 2015) |
| Notes on the End of the World • Meghan Privitello (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) |
| Prophet Fever • Wren Hanks (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) |
| Quick Bright Things: poems of fantasy & myth • P.S. Cottier (Ginninderra Press, 2016) |
| Shipwreck Smiles • Lauren Andrei (Cozy Muse, 2016) |
| Shopping After the Apocalypse • Jessie Carty (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) |
| Southern Cryptozoology • Allie Marini (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015) |
| Radio Heart, or; How Robots Fall Out of Love • Margaret Rhee (Finishing Line Press, 2016) |
| Violet Hours • Jeanie Tomasko (Taraxia Press, 2016) |
| What Stranger Miracles • James Brush (White Knuckle Press, 2016) |
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| Full-length Books |
| The Acolyte • Nancy Hightower (Port Yonder Press, 2015) request .pdf from [email protected] |
| Apocalypse • Frederick Turner (Ilium Press, 2016) |
| Bone Confetti • Muriel Leung (Noemi Press, 2016) |
| The Book of Robot • Ken Poyner (Barking Moose Press, 2016) |
| Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016 • Bruce Boston (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2016) |
| Chemical Letters • Octavia Cade (Popcorn Press, 2015) .pdf available as “Pay What You Want” on DriveThruFiction: http://bit.ly/ChemicalLettersDTF |
| The Crimson Tome • K. A. Opperman (Hippocampus Press, 2015) |
| Dark Parchments • Michael H. Hanson (MoonDream Press, 2015) |
| Dead Starships • Wendy Rathbone (Eye Scry Publications, 2016) |
| Field Guide to the End of the World • Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City Press, 2016) |
| The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor by Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Argos Books, 2016) |
| Ghosts Still Walking • Do Nguyen Mai (Platypus Press, 2016) |
| A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora • Jenna Le (Anchor & Plume, 2016) |
| House of Mystery by Courtney Bates-Hardy (ChiZine Publications, 2016) |
| I Am Not A War • Sophia Terazawa (Essay Press, 2016) free online |
| In the Crocodile Gardens • Saba Razvi (Agape Editions, 2016) |
| Lost Gardens of the Hakudo Maru • Ryu Ando (a€¦p press, 2016) |
| Marginalia to Stone Bird • Rose Lemberg (Aqueduct Press, 2016) |
| On that one-way trip to Mars • Marlena Chertock (Bottlecap Press, 2016) |
| Poems of My Night • Cynthia Pelayo (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2016) |
| Poor Anima • Khaty Xiong, (Apogee Press, 2015) |
| The Primitive Observatory • Gregory Kimbrell (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) |
| PseudoPsalms: Saints v. Sinners • Peter Adam Salomon (Journalstone, 2016) |
| The Role of Lightning in Evolution • David Clink (Kelp Queen Press, 2016) |
| Sacrificial Nights • Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2016) |
| The Seven Yards of Sorrow • David E. Cowen (Weasel Press, 2016) |
| Small Spirits: Dark Dolls • Marge Simon (Midnight Town Media, 2016) |
| Staying Alive • Laura Sims (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016) |
| Turn Left at November: Poems • Wendy Rathbone (Eye Scry Publications, 2015) |
| Underwater Fistfight • Matt Betts (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2016) |
[Thanks to John Brown for the story.]
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One additional chapbook is posted: Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (Porkbelly Press Press, 2016).
Thanks for the addition.
Hi Mike,
We have one last late addition to the chapbook nominations:
hiku [pull] by James A. H. White (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
Thanks,
Josh
http://www.sfpoetry.com/el/elgcand.html