The SFPA (Science Fiction Poetry Association) has announced the winners of the 2016 Elgin Awards. Named for SFPA's founder, Suzette Haden Elgin, these awards recognize the best chapbook and full-length collection of speculative poetry published in the preceding two years.
Chapbook:
1st -- Undoing Winter, by Shannon Connor Winward (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
2nd -- Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town, by John Philip Johnson (Graphic Poetry, 2014)
3rd --A Guide for the Practical Abductee, by E. Kristin Anderson (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014)
Full-Length Collection:
1st -- Crowned, by Mary Soon Lee (Dark Renaissance Books, 2015)
2nd -- The Robot Scientist's Daughter, by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Mayapple Press, 2015)
3rd -- Dark Energies, by Ann K. Schwader (P'rea Press, 2015)
Why, yes -- I am feeling slightly frabjous today. (Also very grateful.)
Read more about the contest, and the full list of nominees, here.
Chapbook:
1st -- Undoing Winter, by Shannon Connor Winward (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
2nd -- Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town, by John Philip Johnson (Graphic Poetry, 2014)
3rd --A Guide for the Practical Abductee, by E. Kristin Anderson (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014)
Full-Length Collection:
1st -- Crowned, by Mary Soon Lee (Dark Renaissance Books, 2015)
2nd -- The Robot Scientist's Daughter, by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Mayapple Press, 2015)
3rd -- Dark Energies, by Ann K. Schwader (P'rea Press, 2015)
Why, yes -- I am feeling slightly frabjous today. (Also very grateful.)
Read more about the contest, and the full list of nominees, here.