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)

Full-Length Books (35 books nominated)

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

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