For books published in 2012 & 2013
Book Award Winners | Chapbook Award Winners | |
Winner: Demonstra • Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013) | Winner: The Sex Lives of Monsters • Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press, 2013) | |
2nd Place: Unexplained Fevers • Jeannine Hall Gailey (New Binary Press, 2013) | 2nd Place: The Edible Zoo • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2012) | |
3rd Place: Dark Roads • Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013) | 3rd Place: Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse • Joshua Gage (The Poet’s Haven, 2013) |
44 members voted
Full-Length Book Award Winner: Bryan Thao Worra, an award-winning Laotian American writer, works actively to support diverse speculative poets and artists. His writing is recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, Loft Literary Center, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. His work appears internationally in over 100 publications in England, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Pakistan, France, Germany, Korea, Canada, and others. His poetry has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Poetry Foundation, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and other institutions. He is an active professional member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and represented Laos as a Cultural Olympian during the Poetry Parnassus of the London 2012 Summer Games. You can visit him online at thaoworra.blogspot.com |
Chapbook Award Winner: Helen Marshall is an award-winning Canadian author, editor, and doctor of medieval studies. Her debut collection of short stories, Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications, 2012), was named one of the top ten books of 2012 by January Magazine. It won the 2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer and was shortlisted for a 2013 Aurora Award by the Canadian Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her second collection, Gifts for the One Who Comes After, was released in September 2014. She lives in Oxford, England where she spends her time staring at old books. |
Chapbooks |
Darling Hands, Darling Tongue • Sally Rosen Kindred
(Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) request .pdf from sally@quietmoon.com |
The Edible Zoo • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Sam's
Dot Publishing, 2012) request .pdf from jopnquog@gmail.com |
Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse • Joshua Gage (The Poet’s Haven, 2013) request .pdf from email.poetshaven.com |
The Liquid of Her Skin, the Suns of Her Eyes • dan smith (NightBallet Press, 2013) request .pdf from nightballetpress@gmail.com |
The Moon & Other Inventions • Kristina Marie Darling (BlazeVOX, 2012) request .pdf from kristinamariedarling@yahoo.com |
Selected Regions of the Moon • J. E. Stanley (NightBallet Press, 2013) request .pdf from editor Dianne Borsenik at nightballetpress@gmail.com |
The Sex Lives of Monsters • Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press, 2013) request .pdf from Helen at Manuscriptgal@gmail.com |
Sonata Vampirica • Samuel Peralta (Windrift Books, 2012) request .pdf from i.am.semaphore@gmail.com |
Spaces of Their Own • Russell Jones (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013) |
Full-length Books |
Dangerous Dreams • Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013) |
Dark Roads • Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013) request .pdf from bruboston@aol.com |
Demonstra • Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013) request a pdf from thaoworra@gmail.com |
The First Bite of the Apple • Jennifer Crow (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013) |
The Gorelets Omnibus: Collected Poems 2001-2011 • Michael Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012) .pdf at gorelets.com/demos/GoreletsOmnibus-SFPA.pdf |
Grim Series • Kristine Ong Muslim (Popcorn Press, 2012) .pdf posted at kristinemuslim.weebly.com/grim-series-pdf.html |
Hysteria: A Collection of Madness • Stephanie Wytovich • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013) request .pdf from books@rawdogscreaming.com |
Letting out the Demons • Terrie Leigh Relf • (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013) request .pdf from tlrelf@gmail.com |
Luminous Worlds • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Dark Regions Press, 2013) request .pdf from jopnquog@gmail.com |
The Monstrance • Bryan D. Dietrich (Needfire Poetry, 2012) free .pdf available at bryandietrich.com/monstrance |
noise of our origin • Dietmar Tauchner (Red Moon Press, 2013) request .pdf from editor Jim Kacian at jim.kacian@comcast.net |
The Offspring of the Moon • John W. Sexton (Salmon Poetry, 2013) request .pdf from latearrivalonearth@eircom.net |
Our Rarer Monsters • Noel Sloboda (Sunnyoutside, 2013) |
Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal • Denise Dumars (Sam's
Dot [now Alban Lake], 2012) request .pdf from eerieaerie@hotmail.com |
Phantom Navigation • Robert Frazier (Dark Regions Press, 2012) request .pdf from ralexfraz@gmail.com |
The Receptionist • Lesley Wheeler (Aqueduct Press, 2012) |
Scenes Along the Zombie Highway • G. O. Clark (Dark Regions Press, 2013) request .pdf from goclark@att.net |
Special Powers and Abilities • Raymond McDaniel (Coffee House Press, 2013) |
SuiPsalms • John Edward Lawson (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012) |
Unexplained Fevers • Jeannine Hall Gailey (New Binary Press, 2013) |
What If What’s Imagined Were All True • Roz Kaveny (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2012) request .pdf from amidsummernightspress@gmail.com |
Nominations per press: | ||
1 | Aqueduct Press | |
1 |
BlazeVOX Press |
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1 | Coffee House Press | |
3 | Dark Regions Press | |
1 | Dark Renaissance Books | |
3 | Elektrik Milk Bath Press | |
1 | Hyacinth Girl Press | |
1 | Innsmouth Free Press | |
1 | Kelp Queen Press | |
1 | A Midsummer Night’s Press | |
1 | Needfire Poetry | |
1 | New Binary Press | |
1 | Night Ballet Press | |
1 | The Poet’s Haven | |
1 | Popcorn Press | |
3 | Raw Dog Screaming Press | |
1 | Red Moon Press | |
1 | Salmon Poetry | |
2 | Sam’s Dot Publishing | |
1 | Stewed Rhubarb Press | |
1 | Sunnyoutside | |
1 | Windrift Books |