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 April 18, 2024.
Chapbooks (7 chapbooks nominated)
- A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness • Angela Acosta • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
- Chapel of Celluloid/Capela de Celulóide • Wade German • (Raphus Press, 2023)
- Maurs Maundering • Denise Dumars • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
- Shelf Life • F.J. Bergmann • (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 (12 books nominated)
- 39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (Cyberwit 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)
- Cast From Darkness • Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo • (Mind's Eye Publications, 2023)
- Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
- Grab • Kendra Preston Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
- How to Navigate Our Universe • Mary Soon Lee • (Self Published, 2023)
- Moonlight and Monsters • Lauren Scharhag • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 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)li>
Nominations per press: (13 presses)
- Alien Buddha Press: 2
- Android Press: 1
- Crystal Lake: 1
- Cyberwit Press: 1
- Gnashing Teeth Publishing: 1
- Hex Publishers: 1
- Mind's Eye Publications: 1
- Penguin Random House: 1
- Quarter Press: 1
- Raphus Press: 1
- Space Cowboy Books: 3
- Red Ogre Review: 3
- Wayne State University Press: 1
