2025 Elgin Award Candidates
For books published in 2023 and 2024
2025 Elgin Chair: Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in Amazing Stories, The Dead Lands, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Siren’s Call, Midnight Echo, The Audient Void, Dreams and Nightmares, Under Her Skin (Black Spot) Vastarien: Women’s Horror (Grimscribe), and many other places. Nominations include the Pushcart, Elgin, Best of the Net and Rhysling. Her latest book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes (Alien Buddha). An active member of both the SFPA and the HWA, she lives in a suitably haunted house on the edge of the known world. There are UFOs and werewolves.
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 was last updated April 15, 2025.
Chapbooks (9 chapbooks nominated)
- Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Wild Ink Publishing, 2024)
- Beyond the Moones Sphere • Ruth Berman • (Crumbfairy Press, 2024)
- Ephemeral Village • Daniel Ausema • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)
- Imitation of Life • L. Marie Wood • (Falstaff Books, 2024)
- The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)
- Micropoetry for Microplanets • Brian U. Garrison • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
- Mindscapes • G. O. Clark • (Hireath Publishing, 2024)
- Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook • Zachary Cahill • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Vampire Ventures • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Alien Buddha, 2023)
Full-Length Books (35 books nominated)
- 39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (CyberWit Press, 2023)
- Animal Gnosis • Denise Dumars • (Alien Buddha Press, 2024)
- Bestial Mouths • Brenda S. Tolian• (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2024)
- The Body as Haunted • Pixie Bruner • (Authortunities Press, 2024)
- The Body Snatchers and Other Death Rituals • Kurt Newton • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)
- Calypso • Oliver K. Langmead • (Titan Press, 2024)
- Daddies, Demons and the Dawn • ayana walker • (Bookleaf Publishing, 2024)
- The Dark Between the Twilight • Jamal Hodge • (Crystal Lake Pub, 2024)
- Dark Woods Rising • A J Dalton • (Starship Sloane Publishing, 2024)
- Death Styles • Joyelle McSweeney • (Nightboat Books, 2024)
- Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha, 2023)
- Electric Cat City: A Poesy • Anna Cates • (Red Moon Books, 2023)
- Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud • Lee Murray • (The Cuba Press, 2024)
- The Future is Brief • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
- The Goose Liver Anthology • Ken Anderson • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Hairy Hullabaloo • Richard Stevenson • (Starship Sloane Publishing, 2024)
- How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide • Pamela Miller • (Unsolicited Press, 2024)
- Ill Weathers and Other Fates • Blair Hamelink • (Quillkeepers Press, 2024)
- LARPing IRL • S. Michael Shrawder • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry • Sumiko Saulson • (Bludgeoned Girls Press, 2024)
- Mexicans On The Moon • Pedro Iniguez • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
- Moth Frenzy • Shane D. Keene • (Self-published, 2024)
- The Phoenix Knight • Draco Amethystus • (Storm Dragon Publishing, 2024)
- Pittsburgh and other Poems • Alan Ira Gordon • (Hireath Publishing, 2024)
- A Registry of Omens • Kendra P. Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Sacred Flute • John C. Mannone • (Iris Books, 2024)
- Surrealia • Miguel O. Mitchell • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2024)
- Tea for the Wicked • Serena Morrigan • (Self-published, 2024)
- Theatre Macabre—The Little Book of Horror Poetry • Sèphera Girón • (Great Lakes Horror Company, 2024)
- Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions • Maxwell I. Gold • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2024)
- Unwelcome Guests • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (Weird House Press, 2024)
- Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness • Gerri Leen • (Self-published, 2024)
- The Ward at Twilight • Ken Anderson • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)
- Weird Worlds • Colleen Anderson • (Weird House Press, 2024)
- Xenoforming • Deborah L. Davitt • (Self-published, 2024)
Nominations Per Press (27 presses)
| Press | Number of Nominations |
|---|---|
| Alien Buddha Press | 3 |
| Authortunities Press | 1 |
| Bludgeoned Girls Press | 1 |
| Bookleaf Publishing | 1 |
| Crumbfairy Press | 1 |
| Crystal Lake Pub | 1 |
| CyberWit Press | 1 |
| The Cuba Press | 1 |
| Falstaff Book | 1 |
| Gnashing Teeth Publishing | 1 |
| Great Lakes Horror Company | 1 |
| Hireath Publishing | 2 |
| Iris Books | 1 |
| Island of Wak-Wak | 3 |
| Nightboat Books | 1 |
| Quillkeepers Press | 1 |
| Raw Dog Screaming Press | 2 |
| Red Moon Books | 1 |
| Red Ogre Review | 4 |
| Self-published | 4 |
| Space Cowboy Books | 3 |
| Starship Sloane Publishing | 2 |
| Storm Dragon Publishing | 1 |
| Sword & Kettle Press | 1 |
| Titan Press | 1 |
| Unsolicited Press | 1 |
| Weird House Press | 2 |
| Wild Ink Publishing | 1 |
