Nominations for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s Elgin Award have closed and Jordan Hirsch, the 2022 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. Works published in 2020 and 2021 are eligible for this year’s awards. SFPA members will have from July 1-September 15 to vote for the winners.
| Chapbooks (14 chapbooks nominated) |
| 25 Trumbulls Road • Christopher Locke (Black Lawrence Press, 2020) |
| Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht • Catherine Moore (Unsolicited Press, 2020) |
| Enkidu is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está • Tucker Lieberman (Glyph Torrent, 2021) |
| Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota • Amelia Gorman (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021) |
| Good Boi • Jason B. Crawford (Neon Hemlock, 2021) |
| Horrific Punctuation • John Reinhart (Arson Press, 2021) |
| Lexicon of Future Selves • Gretchen Rockwell (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021) |
| The Miseducation of the Androids • William Landis (Hiraeth Publishing, 2020) |
| Shadow Box • Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Madhouse Press, 2020) |
| Tug of a Black Hole • Deborah P Kolodji (Title IX Press, 2021) |
| The Undead • Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Sixth FinchBooks, 2020) |
| Unearthed • Federica Santini (Kelsay Books, 2021) |
| Utopian Problems • Jean-Paul L. Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2021) |
| Visions at Templeglantine • John W. Sexton (Revival Press, 2020) |
| Full-length Books (45 books nominated) |
| Arthurian Things • Melissa Ridley Elmes (Dark Myth Publications, 2020) |
| blips on a screen • Joshua Gage (Cuttlefish Books, 2021) |
| Bramah and the Beggar Boy • Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Harbour Publishing, 2021) |
| Can You Sign My Tentacle? • Brandon O’Brien (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021) |
| Carpe Noctem • Robert Borski (Weird House Press, 2020) |
| Cradleland of Parasites • Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse Books, 2020) |
| Cleave • Tiana Nobile (Hub City Press, 2021) |
| Dancing with Maria’s Ghost • Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions Publishing, 2021) |
| The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows • John Koenig (Simon & Schuster, 2021) |
| Echoes From an Expired Earth • Allen Ashley (Demain Books, 2020) |
| Eclipse of the Moon • Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications, 2021) |
| Exposed Nerves • Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021) |
| For the Ride • Alice Notley (Penguin Books, 2020) |
| The Ghettobirds • Bryant O’Hara (Frayed Edge Press, 2021) |
| Grave Goods • Cardinal Cox (Demain Books, 2020) |
| Igor in Therapy • M. K. Garrison (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021) |
| The Journey • Anna Cates (Resource Publications, 2020) |
| Kraken Fever • Kyra Starr & Angela Yuriko Smith (Yuriko Publishing, 2021) |
| Maps of a Hollowed World • TD Walker (Another New Calligraphy, 2020) |
| The Martian’s Regress • J. O. Morgan (Jonathan Cape, 2020) |
| Midnight Comes Early • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Hiraeth Publishing, 2021) |
| Million-Year Elegies • Ada Hoffman (2021) |
| Monstrum Poetica • Jezzy Wolfe (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021) |
| Night Song • Daan Katz (2021) |
| notsleepyyet • Alexander Garza (Weasel Press, 2021) |
| Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose • Maxwell I. Gold (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2021) |
| October Ghosts and Autumn Dreams • K. A. Opperman (Jackanapes Press, 2021) |
| Odyssey • John Urbancik (Dark Fluidity, 2021) |
| The Odyssey of Star Wars • Jack Mitchell (Abrams Image, 2021) |
| Past the Glad and Sunlit Season • K. A Opperman (Jackanapes Press, 2020) |
| Planet of the Zombie Zonnets • Juan Manuel Pérez (Hungry Buzzard Press, 2021) |
| A Predisposition for Madness • Aurelio Rico Lopez III (Hybrid Sequence Media, 2021) |
| A Ride Through Faerie and Other Poems • Clay Franklin Johnson (Gothic Keats Press, 2021) |
| Sacred Summer • Cassandra Rose Clarke (Aqueduct Press 2020) |
| The Saints of Capitalism • Benjamin Schmitt (New Meridian Arts Literary Press, 2021) |
| Saving Shadows • Eugen Bacon (NewCon Press, 2021) |
| Sci-Ku: Explorations into the Poetry of Science • Jay Friedenberg (2020) |
| The Smallest of Bones • Holly Lyn Walrath (CLASH Books, 2021) |
| Stone the Monsters, or Dance • Ken Poyner (Barking Moose Press, 2021) |
| Strange Nests • Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha, 2021) |
| Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. • Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, & Geneve Flynn (Yuriko Publishing, 2021) |
| Unquiet Stars • Ann K. Schwader (Weird House Press, 2021) |
| Victims • Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo (Weasel Press, 2021) |
| who is owed springtime • Rasha Abdulhadi (Neon Hemlock, 2021) |
| The Withering • Ashley Dioses (Jackanapes Press, 2020) |
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