Award Information
The 2024 Elgin Awards were given for books and chapbooks published in 2022 and 2023.
78 SFPA members voted on 16 total chapbooks and 61 total full-length books of poetry to determine the winners.
2024 Chair
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..
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All Award Winners
Book Category
First Place: The Gravity of Existence • Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)
Second Place: Bounded by Eternity• Deborah L. Davitt (self-published, 2022)
Third Place (TIE): Flare, Corona • Jeannine Hall Gailey (BOA Editions, 2022)
Third Place (TIE): From Voyages Unreturning • Deborah L. Davitt • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
Chapbook Category
First Place: Worm Sonnets • Amelia Gorman (Quarter Press, 2023)
Second Place: Shelf Life • F.J. Bergmann • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
Third Place: Numinous Stones • Holly Lyn Walrath • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
Winner Biographies
Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares, A Collection of Dreamscapes, and Tortured Willows. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide, including Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, Weird Tales, and The Washington Post. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect @christinasng.
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her award-winning poetry and prose has appeared in over seventy journals, including F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, and Lightspeed. For more about her work, including her Elgin-placing poetry collections, Bounded by Eternity and From Voyages Unreturning, see www.deborahldavitt.com. She also has a new poetry chapbook out in 2024 (Xenoforming), as well as a TTRPG and novel out this year: Mists & Memory and In Memory’s Shadow.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She is the author of five books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist's Daughter, and, winner of the Moon City Press Book Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her work has been featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac, Verse Daily, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 6. Her website is webbish6.com.
Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.
F.J. Bergmann is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, past editor of Star*Line, managing editor of MadHat Press, poetry editor for Weird House Press, and freelances as a copy editor and book designer. She lives in Wisconsin with a husband, intermittent daughters, cats and a horse, and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets.
Her writing awards include SFPA Rhysling Awards for both long and short poems and SFPA Elgin Awards for two chapbooks: Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press, 2012), a collection of conflated fairy tales, and A Catalogue of the Further Suns, first-contact reports from interstellar expeditions, winner of the 2017 Gold Line Press manuscript competition. She was a Writers of the Future winner. Venues where her poems have appeared include Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov’s SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. She has competed at National Poetry Slam with the Madison Urban Spoken Word slam team. While lacking academic literary qualifications, she is kind to those so encumbered. She thinks imagination can compensate for anything.
Holly Lyn Walrath is a freelance editor and author based out of Houston, Texas. She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of three books of poetry: Glimmerglass Girl, The Smallest of Bones, and Numinous Stones.
All Nominated Works
Chapbooks Nominated
- 39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (Cyberwit Press, 2023)
- Angels & Insects are Creatures with Wings • Amy Jannotti (Kith Books, 2023)
- 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)
- Dionysia • Kim Deyn (Verve Poetry, 2023)
- Magic Lives in Girls • Sadee Bee (Kith Books, 2023)
- Mars Maundering • Denise Dumars • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
- Mutable Forests • Noah David Roberts (Kith Books, 2023)
- Numinous Stones • Holly Lyn Walrath • (Aqueduct Press, 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 Nominated
- 5 Spirits in My Mouth • Pan Morigan (Querencia Press, 2023)
- Amnita: the Legend of Amnita or the Amazon • Eleanor Arneson (Crumbfairy Press, 2022)
- anOther Mythology • Maxwell I. Gold (Interstellar Flight Press, 2023)
- Bad Omens • Jessica Drake-Thomas (Querencia Press, 2022)
- 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 • 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)
- But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves • Conyer Clayton (Anvil Press, 2022)
- Cast From Darkness • Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo • (Mind's Eye Publications, 2023)
- The Cat Star and other Poems • Terry A. Garey (Crumbfairy Press, 2022)
- Doubt & Circuitry • T.D. Walker (Southern Arizona Press, 2023)
- Dream Rooms • River Halen (Book*hug Press, 2022)
- Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
- Electric Cat City: A poesy • Anna Cates (Red Moon Press, 2023)
- Flare, Corona • Jeannine Hall Gailey (BOA Editions, 2022)
- Flux Lines • John C. Mannone (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2022)
- 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)
- The Gravity of Existence • Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)
- Halloween Hearts • Adele Gardner (Jackanapes Press, 2022)
- Here I Am, Pry Me Open • Atlas St. Cloud (Kith Books, 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)
- In Days to Come • Lisa Timpf (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022)
- Let the Dead In • Saida Agostini (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022)
- The Lies We Weave • Grace R. Reynolds (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023)
- The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams • Colleen Anderson (Yuriko Publishing, 2023)
- Mobius Lyrics • Maxwell I. Gold & Angela Yuriko Smith (Independent Legions Publishing, 2022)
- Monument • Manahil Bandukwala (Brick Books, 2022)
- 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)
- The Nothing Box • Steven Withrow (Mind's Eye Publications, 2023)
- On the Subject of Blackberries • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2023)
- Plenitude • Daniel Sarah Karasik (Book*hug Press, 2022)
- The Quiet Ways I Destroy You • Jessica McHugh • (Apokrupha Press, 2023)
- Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair • Marisca Pichette • (Android Press, 2023)
- Roadmap • Monica Prince (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2023)
- The Savior and the Shadow Queen: A Fantastical Tale Told Through Sequential Poems • Kimberly McAfee (Quillkeepers 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)
- Stolen • Sophie Bowns (Self-published, 2022)
- Summoning Space Travelers • Angela Acosta (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022)
- Syntax Error • Siobhan Dunlop (Kith Books, 2023)
- Texture of Silence • Eugen Bacon & Steve Simpson (Independent Legions Publishing, 2023)
- To Daughter a Devil • Megan Mary Moore (Unsolicited Press, 2023)
- Tombstones: Selected Horror Poems • G.O. Clark • (Weird House Press, 2022)
- Village • LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Coffee House Press, 2023)
- A Wheel of Ravens: Alliterative Verse in the Old English Style • Adam Bolivar (Jackanapes Press, 2023)
- You There! • Peter Payack • (Zoland Editions, 2023)
Nominations per Press
- Aeolus House Press: 1
- Alan Squire Publishing: 1
- Alien Buddha Press: 2
- Android Press: 1
- Anvil Press: 1
- Apokrupha Press: 1
- Aqueduct Press: 2
- Biblioasis: 1
- BOA Editions: 1
- Book*hug Press: 2
- Brick Books: 1
- Coffee House Press: 1
- Crumb Fairy Press: 3
- Crystal Lake: 1
- Curious Corvid Publishing: 1
- Cyberwit Press: 1
- Fomite Press: 1
- Gnashing Teeth Publishing: 1
- Harbour Publishing: 1
- Hex Publishers: 1
- Hiraeth Publishing: 1
- Independent Legions Publishing: 2
- Interstellar Flight Press: 3
- Jackanapes Press: 1
- Kith Books: 5
- Linnet's Wings Press: 1
- LVP Publications: 1
- Milkweed Editions: 1
- Mind's Eye Publications: 2
- Monstrous Love Lounge Press: 1
- Nightboat Books: 1
- One World: 1
- Penguin Random House: 1
- Quarter Press: 1
- Querencia Press: 2
- Quillkeepers: 1
- Raphus Press: 1
- Raw Dog Screaming Press: 1
- Red Moon Press: 1
- Santa Fe Writer's Project: 1
- Self-Published: 4
- Southern Arizona Press: 1
- Space Cowboy Books: 4
- Red Ogre Review: 3
- Tolsun Books: 1
- University of Georgia Press: 1
- Unsolicited Press: 1
- Wayne State University Press: 1
- Verve Poetry: 1
- Weird House Press: 1
- Written Image: 1
- Yuriko Publishing: 1
- Zoland Editions: 1