2019 Elgin Award Finalists

Nominations for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s Elgin Award have closed and Charles Christian, the 2019 Elgin Award Chair reports the works named below are the nominees.

The award is named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, and is presented in two categories, Chapbook and Book.

Chapbooks (10 chapbooks nominated)
Built to Serve • G. O. Clark (Alban Lake, 2017)
Crossing Paths at Midnight • Alan Katerinsky (CWP Collective Press, 2017)
Dark Matters • Russell Jones (Tapsalteerie Press, 2018)
Death by Sex Machine • Franny Choi (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)
Dispatches from the Mushroom Kingdom • Noel Pabillo Mariano (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2018)
Every Girl Becomes the Wolf • Laura Madeline Wiseman & Andrea Blythe (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
Glimmerglass Girl • Holly Lyn Walrath (Finishing Line Press, 2018)
Origami Lilies • Joshua Gage (The Poet’s Haven, 2018)
Pocket Full of Horror • Herb Kauderer (Written Image Press, 2018)
Screaming • John Reinhart (Lion Tamer Press, 2017)
Full-length Books (26 books nominated)
Absolute Zero • David Lunde (Mayapple Press, 2018)
Artifacts • Bruce Boston (Independent Legions, 2018)
Bleeding Saffron • David E. Cowen (Weasel Press, 2018)
The Bone Joiner • Sandi Leibowitz (Sycorax Press, 2018)
Candle & Pins • Jacqueline West (Alban Lake, 2018)
The Comfort of Screams • G. O. Clark (Alban Lake, 2018)
Cosmovore • Kristi Carter (Aqueduct Press, 2017)
Dame Evergreen: And Other Poems of Myth, Magic & Madness • Rebecca Buchanan (Sycorax Press, 2018)
Debudaderrah • Robin Wyatt Dunn (John Ott, 2018)
The Devil’s Dreamland • Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse Books, 2018)
Entanglement • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans (Diminuendo Press, 2018)
Flying Solo: The Lana Invasion • Herb Kauderer (The Poet’s Haven, 2017)
Future Anthropology • Jean-Paul L. Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2018)
I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems • Claire C. Holland (Glass Poet Press, 2018)
If the Hero of Time Was Black • Ashley Harris (Weasel Press, 2018)
Invocabulary • Gemma Files (Aqueduct Press, 2018)
No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise • Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Kore Press, 2017)
The Pastime Machine • Lester Smith (Popcorn Press, 2018)
Planet Hunter • Alan Ira Gordon (Alban Lake, 2018)
Poetry for the Neon Apocalypse • Jake Tringali (Transcendent Zero Press, 2018)
Recalibrating the Future • Herb Kauderer (Diminuendo Press, 2018)
Single Bound • Bryan D. Dietrich (Wordfarm Press, 2018)
Unmanned • Jessica Rae Bergamino (Noemi Press, 2018)
War • Marge Simon & Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018)
Witch Wife • Kiki Petrosino (Sarabande Books, 2017)
The Year of the Witch • Shannon Connor Winward (Sycorax Press, 2018)