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Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
2026 Elgin Awards

Award Information

The 2026 Elgin Awards are given for books and chapbooks published in 2024 and 2025.

2026 Elgin Chairs

Eliza Claudia Filimon is a PhD Associate Professor of Film Studies, Literary and Audiovisual Translation, and the Director of the MA ‘The Theory and Practice of Translation’ at the West University of Timisoara, Romania. Awarded the title of Professor Bologna in 2018, Eliza is a member of the European Film Academy. She is currently a Board member of the European networks ICC (International Language Conferences) and PETRA-E (European Association for the Training of Literary Translators), and an active member of international assessment boards in the fields of Film, Translation and Writing. Eliza’s assessment skills have earned her roles as a jury member in major international literary competitions and an assessor of films and screenplays in international film festivals (‘Dracula Digital Romania’, ‘Hollywood Screenings’,
‘Sunset Film Festival’, IEMMY). She engages in activities with CICAE (International
Confederation of Art Cinemas) and ESIST (European Studies in Screen Translation). Eliza is the Head of the audiovisual translation team (subtitling, dubbing, audio description) and a member of the Programming team of ‘The Galactic Imaginarium’ SFF Film Festival, now past its 6th edition, running workshops with the cast and crew of films during the festival. Eliza was the ProZ Pro Bono Ambassador to Romania (2023-2024), and she is a passionate literary and audiovisual translator.

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Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD  (he/his/him) is a Black speculative poet, science fiction and fantasy author, visual artist, and retired chemist. Miguel's poems can be found in Amazing Stories, Dreams & Nightmares, Eye to the Telescope, FIYAH, Sauuti Terrors anthology, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Scifaikuest, Star*Line, Space and Time,  and Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022). He also published two poetry collections, the science fiction novel-in-verse Surrealia (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2024), which won Second Place in the 2025 Elgin Awards for Best Full-Length Speculative Poetry Book, and the fully illustrated Periodic Table of Alien Species: Elements 1-86 (Barnes & Noble Press, 2021). 

In editorial roles, Miguel was Editor of the 2025 Dwarf Stars Anthology, Co-editor (with David C. Kopaska-Merkel) of the 2023 Dwarf Stars Anthology, and is Editor-in-Chief of SpecPoVerse: An International Journal of Speculative Poetry.

All Nominated Works

This page is updated weekly and was last updated April 14, 2026.

Chapbooks

Full-Length Books

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