{"id":1208,"date":"2025-04-16T21:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=1208"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:20:32","slug":"2015-elgin-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/elgin-award\/2015-elgin-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Elgin Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Award Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2015 Elgin Awards were given for books and chapbooks published in 2014 and 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42 SFPA members voted on 9 total chapbooks and 23 total full-length books of poetry to determine the winners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow 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has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>First Place:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/darkrenaissance.com\/product\/sweet-poison-coming-in-february-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sweet Poison<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Marge Simon &amp; Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1209 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Second Place:<\/strong><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/darkrenaissance.com\/our-books\/dark-roads-bruce-boston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Bruce Boston (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkrenaissance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Renaissance Books<\/a>, 2013)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"94\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1210 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Third Place:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/books\/mourning-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mourning Jewelry<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Stephanie Wytovich (<a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Raw Dog Screaming Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"99\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1203 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapbook Category<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>First Place<\/strong>: \u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dulcetshop.myshopify.com\/collections\/dancing-girl-press\/products\/wolf-skin-mary-mcmmne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wolf Skin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Mary McMyne (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancinggirlpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dancing Girl Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1211 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Second Place<\/strong>: \u00a0<em>Seti Hits Paydirt<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David C. Kopaska-Merkel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcornpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Popcorn Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1212 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Third Place:<\/strong> <em>\u00a0If the World Were to Stop Spinning<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David Clink (<a href=\"http:\/\/piquantpress.ca\/piquantpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Piquant Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"101\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1213 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winner Biographies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/simonmar.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with styled grey hair, earrings, and dark sunglasses smiles\" class=\"wp-image-728 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Marge Simon\u2019<\/strong>s works appear in publications such as\u00a0<em>DailySF Magazine, Pedestal, Dreams &amp; Nightmares.<\/em>\u00a0She edits a column for the\u00a0<em>HWA Newsletter,<\/em>\u00a0\u201cBlood &amp; Spades: Poets of the Dark Side,\u201d and serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She won the\u00a0<em>Strange Horizons<\/em>\u00a0Readers Choice Award, 2010, and the SFPA\u2019s Dwarf Stars Award, 2012. In addition to her poetry, she has published two prose collections:\u00a0<em>Christina&#8217;s World<\/em>\u00a0(Sam\u2019s Dot Publications, 2008) and\u00a0<em>Like Birds in the Rain<\/em>\u00a0(Sam\u2019s Dot, 2007). She has won three Bram Stoker Awards\u00ae for Superior Work in Poetry. Her poems appear in\u00a0<em>Qualia Nous<\/em>\u00a0(Written Backwards),\u00a0<em>The Dark Phantastique<\/em>\u00a0(Jasunni Productions) and more poems will appear in\u00a0<em>Chiral Mad<\/em>\u00a0(Written Backwards) anthology and the HWA\/Simon &amp; Schuster Y\/A collection, 2015.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.margesimon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">margesimon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/turzillom.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/turzillom.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/turzillom-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Mary Turzillo<\/strong>\u2019s 1999 Nebula-winner, \u201cMars Is no Place for Children,\u201d and her Analog novel,\u00a0<em>An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl<\/em>, were chosen as recommended reading on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection,\u00a0<em>Lovers &amp; Killers<\/em>, won the 2013 Elgin Award. She been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. She&#8217;s working on a novel,\u00a0<em>A Mars Cat and his Boy.<\/em>\u00a0and another poetry collaboration with Marge Simon, this one about truly evil women. She lives in Berea, Ohio, with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey A. Landis.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/marymcmyne.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-637 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Mary McMyne\u00a0is a writer, poet, editor, and professor living in northern Michigan. Her poetry and stories have appeared widely, including in\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review, Apex Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry International, New Delta Review,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Painted Bride Quarterly.<\/em>\u00a0She has won the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award, and the second-place Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction. Since 2011, she has lived in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and co-editor of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrossing.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Border Crossing<\/a><\/em>\u00a0at Lake Superior State University. Before joining the faculty at Lake State, she taught writing and literature at New York University, New Jersey City University, and other institutions. She edits poetry for\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faeriemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faerie Magazine<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and is currently at work on a novel. Visit her online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marymcmyne.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marymcmyne.com<\/a>\u00a0or on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marymcmyne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@marymcmyne<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All Nominated Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapbooks Nominated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Book of Answers<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Herb Kauderer (Written Image, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A Guide for the Practical Abductee<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 E. Kristin Anderson (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>If the World Were to Stop Spinning<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David Clink (<a href=\"http:\/\/piquantpress.ca\/piquantpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Piquant Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Selected-Regions-Moon-J-Stanley\/dp\/B00BVMBNKM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Selected Regions of the Moon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 J. E. Stanley (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nighballetpress.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NightBallet Press<\/a>, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Seti Hits Paydirt<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David C. Kopaska-Merkel (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcornpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Popcorn Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesoftheirown.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spaces of Their Own<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Russell Jones (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewedrhubarb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stewed Rhubarb Press<\/a>, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnphilipjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 John Philip Johnson (Graphic Poetry, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/finishinglinepress.com\/product_info.php?products_id=2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Undoing Winter<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Shannon Connor Winward (Finishing Line Press, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dulcetshop.myshopify.com\/collections\/dancing-girl-press\/products\/wolf-skin-mary-mcmmne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wolf Skin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Mary McMyne (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancinggirlpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dancing Girl Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Full-Length Books Nominated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/darkrenaissance.com\/our-books\/dark-roads-bruce-boston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Bruce Boston (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkrenaissance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Renaissance Books<\/a>, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Dishonesty-Dreams-Adrienne-Odasso\/dp\/0981858473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Dishonesty of Dreams<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 A.J. Odasso (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippocampuspress.com\/mythos-and-other-authors\/poetry\/dreams-from-a-black-nebula-by-wade-german\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dreams from a Black Nebula<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Wade German (Hippocampus Press, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/fearworms.com\/Fearworms\/Fearworms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fearworms<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Robert Payne Cabeen (<a href=\"http:\/\/fanboycomics.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fanboy comics<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/elektrikmilkbathpress.com\/bookstore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The First Bite of the Apple<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Jennifer Crow (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elektrikmilkbathpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elektrik Milk Bath Press<\/a>, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mayapplepress.com\/the-grandson-of-heinrich-schliemann-other-truths-and-fictions-david-lunde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann &amp; Other Truths and Fictions<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David Lunde (Mayapple Press, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/darkrenaissance.com\/product\/gravediggers-dancein-stock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gravedigger&#8217;s Dance<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 G.O. Clark (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkrenaissance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Renaissance Books<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mythicdelirium.com\/?page_id=2641#Hungry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hungry Constellations<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Mike Allen (<a href=\"http:\/\/mythicdelirium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mythic Delirium Books<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/books\/if-tabloids-are-true-what-are-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Matthea Harvey (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graywolf Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/alliterationink.com\/ocart\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">An Inheritance of Stone<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Leslie J. Anderson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliterationink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alliteration Ink<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/weaselpress.storenvy.com\/products\/10944102-the-madness-of-empty-spaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Madness of Empty Spaces<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David E. Cowen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaselpress.com\/\">Weasel Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchpress.com\/michelle-scalise.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Manufacturer of Sorrow<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Michelle Scalise (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchpress.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eldritch Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/books\/mourning-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mourning Jewelry<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Stephanie Wytovich (<a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Raw Dog Screaming Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmoonpress.com\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noise of our origin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Dietmar Tauchner (Red Moon Press, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/salmonpoetry.com\/details.php?ID=298&amp;a=244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Offspring of the Moon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 John W. Sexton (<a href=\"http:\/\/salmonpoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salmon Poetry<\/a>, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyoutside.com\/releases\/067\/o.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Rarer Monsters<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Noel Sloboda (Sunnyoutside, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Prophets<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Peter A. Salomon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eldritch Press<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/store.albanlake.com\/product\/rings-of-ganymede\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rings of Ganymede<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Kendall Evans (Alban Lake Publishing, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/content\/link\/238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Laura Madeline Wiseman (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lavender Ink<\/a>, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ut.edu\/TampaPress\/pressDetail.aspx?id=22077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space Traveler<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/darkrenaissance.com\/product\/sweet-poison-coming-in-february-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sweet Poison<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Marge Simon &amp; Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/newbinarypress.com\/product\/unexplained-fevers-jeannine-hall-gailey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unexplained Fevers<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Jeannine Hall Gailey (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbinarypress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Binary Press<\/a>, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alessandromanzetti.net\/venus-intervention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venus Intervention<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Corrine De Winter &amp; Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria,\u00a02014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nominations per Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Number of Nominations<\/th><th>Name of Press<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Alban Lake Publishing<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Alliteration Ink<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Aqueduct Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Dancing Girl Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Dark Renaissance Books<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Eldritch Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Elektrik Milk Bath Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>fanboy comics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Flipped Eye Publishing<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Graphic Poetry<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Graywolf Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Hippocampus Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Kipple Officina Libraria<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Lavender Ink<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Mayapple Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Mythic Delirium Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>New Binary Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Night Ballet Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Piquant Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Popcorn Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Raw Dog Screaming Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Red Bird Chapbooks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Red Moon Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Salmon Poetry<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Stewed Rhubarb Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Sunnyoutside<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>University of Tampa Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Weasel Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Written Image<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award Information The 2015 Elgin Awards were given for books and chapbooks published in 2014 and 2013. 42 SFPA members voted on 9 total chapbooks and 23 total full-length books of poetry to determine the winners. 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