{"id":918,"date":"2024-12-09T20:48:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2024-12-09T20:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T20:48:03","slug":"2013-elgin-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/elgin-award\/2013-elgin-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Elgin Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2013 Winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

39 SFPA members voted on 6 chapbooks and 13 full-length books first published in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winner<\/strong>:\u00a0Lovers & Killers<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Mary Turzillo (Dark Regions Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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2nd Place<\/strong>:\u00a0Notes From the Shadow City<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Bruce Boston & Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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3rd Place<\/strong>:\u00a0Come Late to the Love of Birds<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Sandra Kasturi (Tightrope Books)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Chapbooks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Winner<\/strong>:\u00a0Out of the Black Forest<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 F. J. Bergmann (Centennial Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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2nd Place<\/strong>:\u00a0The House of Forever: Selected Poems<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Samantha Henderson (Raven Electrick Ink)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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3rd Place<\/strong>:\u00a0The Edible Zoo<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David Kopaska-Merkel (Sam\u2019s Dot Publishing)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Winner Biographies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mary Turzillo\u2019s Nebula winner, \u201cMars Is no Place for Children,\u201d and her Analog novel\u00a0An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl<\/em>\u00a0are recommended reading on the International Space Station. She’s been on the British SFA, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. Her chapbook\u00a0Blade Work<\/em>\u00a0was a quarter-finalist in the 2012 Mary Ballard Casey Shay competition. Her work appears in\u00a0Asimov’s, Analog, Goblin Fruit, Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares,<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere.\u00a0Lovers & Killers,<\/em>\u00a0her 2013 Elgin winner, is crypto-autobiographical, which is scary.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin and\u00a0fibitz.com<\/a>. She is the editor of\u00a0Star*Line<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and the poetry editor of\u00a0Mobius: The Journal of Social Change<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Out of the Black Forest<\/em>\u00a0is her fourth non-self-published chapbook, which owes a great deal to its illustrator,\u00a0Kelli Hoppmann<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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