2024 Elgin Award Candidates
For books published in 2022 and 2023
2024 Elgin Chair: Felicia Martínez
Felicia Martínez is a writer, poet, and artist from Eastern New Mexico, though the San Francisco Bay Area is now home. She was recently guest poetry editor at The Deadlands, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov's, The Rising Phoenix Review, The Acentos Review, The Deadlands, Star*Line, and others. Find her on the various social media sites as @feliciafm..
Nominations for the Elgin Awards are open. DEADLINE May 31. For information on how to nominate books, please visit the Elgin Awards nomination page.
This page is updated weekly. Please check back to see new nominees. The last update was May 2, 2024.
Chapbooks (11 chapbooks nominated)
- Beautiful Malady • Ennis Rook Bashe • (Interstellar Flight Press, 2023)
- A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness • Angela Acosta • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
- The Book of Sleep • Herb Kauderer (Written Image, 2023)
- Chapel of Celluloid/Capela de Celulóide • Wade German • (Raphus Press, 2023)
- Maurs Maundering • Denise Dumars • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
- The Owl Kingdom • Rebecca Marjesdatter (Crumb Fairy Press, 2023)
- Shelf Life • F.J. Bergmann • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
- The Telepathy Machine • Jean-Paul L. Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
- Unicorn Death Moon • Zachary Cahill • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
- Vampire Ventures • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
- Worm Sonnets • Amelia Gorman • (Quarter Press, 2023)
Full-length Books (32 books nominated)
- 39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (Cyberwit Press, 2023)
- Black Observatory: Poems • Christopher Brean Murray (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
- The Black Ship • David Clink (Aeolus House Press, 2023)
- Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums • Maxwell I. Gold • (Hex Publishers, 2023)
- Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head • Warsan Shire • (Penguin Random House, 2022)
- The Border Simulator: Poems • Gabriel Dozal (Author), Natasha Tiniacos (Translator) • (One World, 2023)
- Bounded By Eternity • Deborah L. Davitt (self-published, 2022)
- Bramah's Quest • Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Harbour Publishing, 2023)
- Cast From Darkness • Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo • (Mind's Eye Publications, 2023)
- Doubt & Circuitry • T.D. Walker (Southern Arizona Press, 2023)
- Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
- From Voyages Unreturning • Deborah L. Davitt • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
- The Full Moon Whaling Chronicles • Jason Guriel • (Biblioasis, 2023)
- Grab • Kendra Preston Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
- How to Navigate Our Universe • Mary Soon Lee • (Self Published, 2023)
- Hydra Medusa • Brandon Shimoda • (Nightboat Books, 2023)
- I Dreamed a World • Colleen Anderson (LVP Publications, 2022)
- Let the Dead In • Saida Agostini (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022)
- The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams • Colleen Anderson (Yuriko Publishing, 2023)
- Moonlight and Monsters • Lauren Scharhag • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2023)
- Neon Lights and Plane Tickets • Eli Alemán • (Self-Published, 2023)
- Night Life: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection • Alba Sarria • (Monstrous Love Lounge Press, 2023)
- Numinous Stones • Holly Lyn Walrath • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
- On the Subject of Blackberries • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2023)
- The Quiet Ways I Destroy You • Jessica McHugh • (Apokrupha Press, 2023)
- Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair • Marisca Pichette • (Android Press, 2023)
- The Second Stop is Jupiter • upfromsomedirt • (Wayne State University Press, 2023)
- Selected Poems 1965-2020 • Michael Butterworth • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
- Sifting the Ashes • Michael Bailey and Marge Simon • (Crystal Lake, 2022)
- Soft Apocalypse • Leah Nieboer • (University of Georgia Press, 2023)
- The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers • Christine Butterworth-McDermott (Fomite Press, 2023)
- Star Tent: A Triptych • Amie Whittemore (Tolsun Books, 2023)
- Tombstones: Selected Horror Poems • G.O. Clark • (Weird House Press, 2022)
Nominations per press: (23 presses)
- Aeolus House Press: 1
- Alien Buddha Press: 2
- Android Press: 1
- Apokrupha Press: 1
- Aqueduct Press: 2
- Biblioasis: 1
- Crumb Fairy Press: 1
- Crystal Lake: 1
- Cyberwit Press: 1
- Fomite Press: 1
- Gnashing Teeth Publishing: 1
- Harbour Publishing: 1
- Hex Publishers: 1
- Interstellar Flight Press: 1
- Alan Squire Publishing: 1
- LVP Publications: 1
- Milkweed Editions: 1
- Mind's Eye Publications: 1
- Monstrous Love Lounge Press: 1
- Nightboat Books: 1
- One World: 1
- Penguin Random House: 1
- Quarter Press: 1
- Raphus Press: 1
- Raw Dog Screaming Press: 1
- Self-Published: 3
- Southern Arizona Press: 1
- Space Cowboy Books: 4
- Red Ogre Review: 3
- Tolsun Books: 1
- University of Georgia Press: 1
- Wayne State University Press: 1
- Weird House Press: 1
- Written Image: 1
- Yuriko Publishing: 1