Award Information
The 2013 Elgin Awards were given for books and chapbooks published in 2012.
39 SFPA members voted on 6 total chapbooks and 13 total full-length books of poetry to determine the winners.
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All Award Winners
Book Category
First Place: Lovers & Killers • Mary Turzillo (Dark Regions Press)
Second Place: Notes From the Shadow City • Bruce Boston & Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions Press)
Third Place: Come Late to the Love of Birds • Sandra Kasturi (Tightrope Books)
Chapbook Category
First Place: Out of the Black Forest • F. J. Bergmann (Centennial Press)
Second Place: The House of Forever: Selected Poems • Samantha Henderson (Raven Electrick Ink)
Third Place: The Edible Zoo • David Kopaska-Merkel (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
Winner Biographies
F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin and fibitz.com. She is the editor of Star*Line and the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. Out of the Black Forest is her fourth non-self-published chapbook, which owes a great deal to its illustrator, Kelli Hoppmann.
Mary Turzillo’s Nebula winner, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her Analog novel An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl are recommended reading on the International Space Station. She's been on the British SFA, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. Her chapbook Blade Work was a quarter-finalist in the 2012 Mary Ballard Casey Shay competition. Her work appears in Asimov's, Analog, Goblin Fruit, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, and elsewhere. Lovers & Killers, her 2013 Elgin winner, is crypto-autobiographical, which is scary.
All Nominated Works
Chapbooks Nominated
- The Edible Zoo • David Kopaska-Merkel
- The House of Forever: Selected Poems • Samantha Henderson (Raven Electrick Ink)
- The Moon & Other Inventions • Kristina Marie Darling (BlazeVOX)
- Out of the Black Forest • F. J. Bergmann (Centennial Press)
- Songs of Steelyard Sue • J. S. Watts (Lapwing Publications)
- Sonata Vampirica • Samuel Peralta (Windrift Books)
Full-Length Books Nominated
- Come Late to the Love of Birds • Sandra Kasturi (Tightrope Books)
- Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu • David Clink ( The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)
- The Gorelets Omnibus: Collected Poems 2001-2011 • Michael Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Grim Series • Kristine Ong Muslim (Popcorn Press)
- How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes • CSE Cooney (Papaveria Press)
- The Last Selchie Child • Jane Yolen (A Midsummer Night's Press)
- Lovers & Killers • Mary Turzillo (Dark Regions Press)
- The Monstrance • Bryan D. Dietrich (Needfire Poetry)
- Notes From the Shadow City • Bruce Boston & Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions Press)
- Paranormal/Romance: Poems Romancing The Paranormal • Denise Dumars (Sam’s Dot)
- Phantom Navigation • Robert Frazier (Dark Regions Press)
- The Receptionist • Lesley Wheeler (Aqueduct Press)
- White Shift • G. O. Clark (Sam's Dot Publishing)
Nominations per Press
| Nominations | Press Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Aqueduct Press |
| 1 | The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box |
| 1 | BlazeVOX Press |
| 1 | Centennial Press |
| 3 | Dark Regions Press |
| 1 | Lapwing Publications |
| 1 | A Midsummer Night’s Press |
| 1 | Needfire Poetry |
| 1 | Papaveria Press |
| 1 | Popcorn Press |
| 1 | Raven Electrick Ink |
| 1 | Raw Dog Screaming Press |
| 3 | Sam’s Dot Publishing |
| 1 | Tightrope Books |
| 1 | Windrift Books |