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Elgin Award
Awarded forThe best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poetry books published in English in the last two calendar years
Presented byScience Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
First award2013
Websitehttps://sfpoetry.org/wp/elgin-award/

The Elgin Award is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poetry Chapbooks (booklets of 10-39 pages) or books (40 pages or more). The award is named for Suzette Haden Elgin, founder of the SFPA. Works are eligible for two years after publication, those that place in the top three in their first year of eligibility are not eligible again in their second. Works must be published in English, though translated works are eligible.[1]

Critic Holly Lyn Walrath has written that "Speculative poetry is a radical field right now ... reading from the Elgin nominee list is a fantastic starting place."[2]

Winners and nominees

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In the following table, the years correspond to the date in which the award was given, rather than when the poem was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in poetry". Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award, while those with a gray background and a plus sign (+) took second place, and those with a white background took third.

* Winners
+ Second place
  Third place

Books

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'Books' are works with 40 or more pages of English language poetry.

Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2013 Mary Turzillo* Lovers & Killers Dark Regions Press [3]
Bruce Boston+ Notes From the Shadow City Dark Regions Press [3]
Gary William Crawford+
Sandra Kasturi Come Late to the Love of Birds Tightrope Books [3]
2014 Bryan Thao Worra* Demonstra Innsmouth Free Press [4]
Jeannine Hall Gailey+ Unexplained Fevers New Binary Press [4]
Bruce Boston Dark Roads Dark Renaissance Books [4]
2015 Marge Simon* Sweet Poison Dark Renaissance [5]
Mary Turzillo*
Bruce Boston+ Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 Dark Renaissance [5]
Stephanie Wytovich Mourning Jewelry Raw Dog Screaming [5]
2016 Mary Soon Lee* Crowned: The Sign Of The Dragon Book 1 Dark Renaissance [6]
Jeannine Hall Gailey+ The Robot Scientist’s Daughter Mayapple [6]
Ann K. Schwader Dark Energies P’rea [6]
2017 Jeannine Hall Gailey* Field Guide to the End of the World Moon City [7]
Jenna Le+ A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora Anchor & Plume [7]
Marge Simon+ Small Spirits: Dark Dolls Midnight Town [7]
Wendy Rathbone Dead Starships Eye Scry [7]
2018 Christina M. Rau* Liberating the Astronauts Aqueduct [8]
Marge Simon+ Satan’s Sweethearts Weasel [8]
Mary Turzillo
Margaret Rhee Love Robot The Operating System [8]
2019 Marge Simon* War Crystal Lake [9]
Alessandro Manzetti*
Bruce Boston+ Artifacts Independent Legions [9]
Kiki Petrosino Witch Wife Sarabande [9]
2020 Franny Choi* Soft Science Alice James [10]
Mary Soon Lee+ Elemental Haiku Ten Speed [10]
G.O. Clark The Comfort of Screams Alban Lake [10]
Marge Simon The Demeter Diaries Independent Legions [10]
Bryan D. Dietrich
2021 Mary Soon Lee* The Sign of the Dragon JABberwocky [11]
Christina Sng+ A Collection of Dreamscapes Raw Dog Screaming [11]
Octavia Cade Mary Shelley Makes a Monster Aqueduct [11]
LindaAnn Loschiavo A Route Obscure and Lonely Wapshott [11]
2022 Brandon O’Brien* Can You Sign My Tentacle? Interstellar Flight [12]
Geneve Flynn+ Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken Yuriko [12]
Lee Murray+
Christina Sng+
Angela Yuriko Smith+
Ann K. Schwader Unquiet Stars Weird House [12]
2023 David C. Kopaska-Merkel* Some Disassembly Required Diminuendo [13]
Avra Margariti+ The Saint of Witches Weasel [13]
Tiffany Morris Elegies of Rotting Stars Nictitating Books [13]
Rebecca Buchanan Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea & Other Tales to Foment Revolution Jackanapes [13]
2024 Christina Sng* The Gravity of Existence Interstellar Flight [14]
Deborah L. Davitt+ Bounded By Eternity self-published [14]
Deborah L. Davitt From Voyages Unreturning Aqueduct [14]
Jeannine Hall Gailey Flare BOA Editions
2025 Pedro Iniguez* Mexicans on the Moon Space Cowboy [15]
Miguel Mitchell+ Surrealia Gnashing Teeth [15]
Jamal Hodge The Dark Between The Twilight Aqueduct [15]
2026 Linda D. Addison* Everything Endless - [16]
Jamal Hodge*
Lee Murray+ Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud - [16]
Herb Kauderer Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall - [16]

Chapbooks

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'Chapbooks' are works with between 10 and 39 pages of English language poetry.

Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2013 F. J. Bergmann* Out of the Black Forest Centennial Press [3]
Samantha Henderson+ The House of Forever: Selected Poems Raven Electrick Ink [3]
David C. Kopaska-Merkel The Edible Zoo Sam’s Dot Publishing [3]
2014 Helen Marshall The Sex Lives of Monsters Kelp Queen Press [4]
David C. Kopaska-Merkel+ The Edible Zoo Sam’s Dot Publishing [4]
Joshua Gage Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse The Poet’s Haven [4]
2015 Mary McMyne Wolf Skin Dancing Girl [5]
David C. Kopaska-Merkel Seti Hits Paydirt Popcorn [5]
David Clink If the World Were to Stop Spinning Piquant [5]
2016 Shannon Connor Winward Undoing Winter Finishing Line [6]
John Philip Johnson Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town Graphic Poetry [6]
E. Kristin Anderson A Guide for the Practical Abductee Red Bird [6]
2017 Neil Aitken* Leviathan Hyacinth Girl [7]
Margaret Rhee+ Radio Heart, or; How Robots Fall Out of Love Finishing Line [7]
John C. Mannone Apocalypse Alban Lake [7]
2018 F.J. Bergmann* A Catalogue of the Further Suns Gold Line [8]
Christina Sng+ Astropoetry Alban Lake [8]
Dan Hoy The Terraformers Third Man [8]
2019 Holly Lyn Walrath* Glimmerglass Girl Finishing Line [9]
G.O. Clark+ Built to Serve Alban Lake [9]
Laura Madeline Wiseman Every Girl Becomes the Wolf Finishing Line [9]
Andrea Blythe
2020 John Philip Johnson* The Book of Fly Graphic Poetry [10]
Christina Olson+ The Last Mastodon Rattle [10]
Herb Kauderer Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead The Poet’s Haven [10]
2021 Akua Lezli Hope* Otherwheres ArtFarm [11]
Andrea Blythe+ Twelve Interstellar Flight [11]
Terese Mason Pierre Manifest Gap Riot [11]
2022 Amelia Gorman* Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota Interstellar Flight [12]
Deborah P Kolodji+ Tug of a Black Hole Title IX [12]
John W. Sexton Visions at Templeglantine Revival [12]
2023 Jane Yolen* The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems Shoreline of Infinity [13]
Bruce Boston+ Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets Mind’s Eye [13]
Denise Dumars Cajuns in Space self-published [13]
2024 Amelia Gorman* Worm Sonnets Quarter [14]
F.J. Bergmann+ Shelf Life Space Cowboy [14]
Holly Lyn Walrath Numinous Stones Aqueduct [14]
2025 Katherine Quevedo* The Inca Weaver’s Tales Sword & Kettle [15]
Mahaila Smith+ Water-Kin Metatron [15]
Brian U. Garrison Micropoetry for Microplanets Space Cowboy [15]
2026 M. Frost* The Women of Myth - [16]
Gerri Leen+ Over It: Goddesses Who’ve Reached Their Limit [16]
David C. Kopaska-Merkel Risk Assessment - [16]

References

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  1. ↑ "About the Elgin Award". Retrieved 2026-10-18.
  2. ↑ ""The Best Speculative Poetry of the Year Is Award-Worthy"". Interstellar Flight Magazine. Sep 16, 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-20.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2013 Elgin Awards: 2013 Winners". Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2014 Elgin Awards: Award Information". Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2015 Dwarf Stars and Elgin Award Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2016 Dwarf Stars and Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2017 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2018 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2019 Dwarf Stars and Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2020 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2021 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2022 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2023 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2024 Elgin Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2025 Elgin Awards and Rhysling Awards Winners". Locus Online. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "SFPA Announces 2026 Elgin, Dwarf Star, and Rhysling Award Winners". File770. Retrieved 2026-10-19.
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