Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Elgin award, especially Marge Simon, who I had the pleasure of interviewing earlier this year as well as reviewing her second place winner, Small Spirits: Dark Dolls.

Read that interview here.

Read the review here.

The largest pool of poetry books and chapbooks to date—51 books were nominated! I am thrilled to have been nominated with my first poetry chapbook, In Favor of Pain, and was told it made it to 9th place.

Full-Length Book Category

  • Winner: Field Guide to the End of the World • Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City Press, 2016)
  • Second Place (tie): A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora • Jenna Le (Anchor & Plume, 2016)
  • Second Place (tie): Small Spirits: Dark Dolls • Marge Simon (Midnight Town Media, 2016)
  • Third Place: Dead Starships • Wendy Rathbone (Eye Scry Publications, 2016)

Chapbook Category

  • Winner: Leviathan • Neil Aitken (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016)
  • Second Place: Radio Heart, or; How Robots Fall Out of Love • Margaret Rhee (Finishing Line Press, 2016)
  • Third Place: Apocalypse • John C. Mannone (Alban Lake, 2015)

Find out more about the the Science Fiction Poetry Association here.

By Angela Yuriko Smith

Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.

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