2014 Elgin Awards
For books published in 2012 & 2013

Book Award Winners spacer Chapbook Award Winners
demonstra coverWinner: Demonstra • Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013)   the sex lives of monsters coverWinner: The Sex Lives of Monsters • Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press, 2013)
unexplained fevers cover2nd Place: Unexplained Fevers • Jeannine Hall Gailey (New Binary Press, 2013)   2nd Place: The Edible Zoo • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2012)
dark roads cover3rd Place: Dark Roads • Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013)   inhuman cover3rd 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 photo
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
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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)
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The Edible Zoo • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2012)
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Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse • Joshua Gage (The Poet’s Haven, 2013)
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The Liquid of Her Skin, the Suns of Her Eyes • dan smith (NightBallet Press, 2013)
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The Moon & Other Inventions • Kristina Marie Darling (BlazeVOX, 2012)
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Selected Regions of the Moon • J. E. Stanley (NightBallet Press, 2013)
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The Sex Lives of Monsters • Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press, 2013)
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Sonata Vampirica • Samuel Peralta (Windrift Books, 2012)
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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)
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Demonstra • Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013)
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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)
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Letting out the Demons • Terrie Leigh Relf • (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013)
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Luminous Worlds • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Dark Regions Press, 2013)
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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)
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Our Rarer Monsters • Noel Sloboda (Sunnyoutside, 2013)
Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal Denise Dumars (Sam's Dot [now Alban Lake], 2012)
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Phantom Navigation • Robert Frazier (Dark Regions Press, 2012)
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The Receptionist • Lesley Wheeler (Aqueduct Press, 2012)
Scenes Along the Zombie Highway • G. O. Clark (Dark Regions Press, 2013)
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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)
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Nominations per press:
1 spacer Aqueduct Press
1
  BlazeVOX Press
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

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