For books published in 2013 & 2014
| Book Award Winners |  |
Chapbook Award Winners |
 Winner: Sweet Poison • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014) |
 Winner: Wolf Skin • Mary McMyne (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) |
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 2nd Place: Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 • Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013) |
 2nd Place: Seti Hits Paydirt • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
(Popcorn Press, 2014) |
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 3rd Place: Mourning Jewelry • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014) |
 3rd Place: If the World Were to Stop Spinning • David Clink (Piquant Press, 2014) |
42 members voted
Full-Length Book Award Winners:  Mary Turzillo’s 1999 Nebula-winner, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her Analog novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, were chosen as recommended reading on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection, Lovers & Killers, won the 2013 Elgin Award. She been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars and Rhysling ballots. She's working on a novel, A Mars Cat and his Boy. and 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. |
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Chapbook Award Winner: Mary McMyne is a writer, poet, editor, and professor living in northern Michigan. Her poetry and stories have appeared widely, including in Los Angeles Review, Apex Magazine, Pedestal Magazine, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry International, New Delta Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She 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 Border Crossing at 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 Faerie Magazine and is currently at work on a novel. Visit her online at marymcmyne.com or on Twitter @marymcmyne. |
Marge Simon| Chapbooks |
| The Book of Answers • Herb Kauderer (Written Image, 2014) |
| A Guide for the Practical Abductee • E. Kristin Anderson (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) |
| If the World Were to Stop Spinning • David Clink (Piquant Press, 2014) |
| Selected Regions of the Moon • J. E. Stanley (NightBallet Press, 2013) |
| Seti Hits Paydirt • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Popcorn Press, 2014) |
| Spaces of Their Own • Russell Jones (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013) |
| Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town • John Philip Johnson (Graphic Poetry, 2014) |
| Undoing Winter • Shannon Connor Winward (Finishing Line Press, 2014) |
| Wolf Skin • Mary McMyne (Dancing Girl Press, 2014) |
| Full-length Books |
| Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 • Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013) |
| The Dishonesty of Dreams • A.J. Odasso (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2014) |
| Dreams from a Black Nebula • Wade German (Hippocampus Press, 2014) |
| Fearworms • Robert Payne Cabeen (fanboy comics, 2014) |
| The First Bite of the Apple • Jennifer Crow (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013) |
| The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann & Other Truths and Fictions • David Lunde (Mayapple Press, 2014) |
| Gravedigger's Dance • G.O. Clark (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014) |
| Hungry Constellations • Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books, 2014) |
| If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? • Matthea Harvey (Graywolf Press, 2014) |
| An Inheritance of Stone • Leslie J. Anderson (Alliteration Ink, 2014) |
| The Madness of Empty Spaces • David E. Cowen (Weasel Press, 2014) |
| The Manufacturer of Sorrow • Michelle Scalise (Eldritch Press, 2014) |
| Mourning Jewelry • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014) |
| noise of our origin • Dietmar Tauchner (Red Moon Press, 2013) |
| The Offspring of the Moon • John W. Sexton (Salmon Poetry, 2013) |
| Our Rarer Monsters • Noel Sloboda (Sunnyoutside, 2013) |
| Prophets • Peter A. Salomon (Eldritch Press, 2014) |
| The Rings of Ganymede • Kendall Evans (Alban Lake Publishing, 2014) |
| Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience • Laura Madeline Wiseman (Lavender Ink, 2014) |
| Space Traveler • Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press, 2014) |
| Sweet Poison • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014) |
| Unexplained Fevers • Jeannine Hall Gailey (New Binary Press, 2013) |
| Venus Intervention • Corrine De Winter & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014) |
| Nominations per press: | ||
| 1 | |
Alban Lake Publishing |
| 1 | |
Alliteration Ink |
| 1 | |
Aqueduct Press |
| 1 | Dancing Girl Press | |
| 3 | Dark Renaissance Books | |
| 2 | Eldritch Press | |
| 1 | Elektrik Milk Bath Press | |
| 1 | fanboy comics | |
| 1 | Flipped Eye Publishing | |
| 1 | Graphic Poetry | |
| 1 | Graywolf Press | |
| 1 | Hippocampus Press | |
| 1 | Kipple Officina Libraria | |
| 1 | Lavender Ink | |
| 1 | Mayapple Press | |
| 1 | Mythic Delirium Press | |
| 1 | New Binary Press | |
| 1 | Night Ballet Press | |
| 1 | Piquant Press | |
| 1 | Popcorn Press | |
| 1 | Raw Dog Screaming Press | |
| 1 | Red Bird Chapbooks | |
| 1 | Red Moon Press | |
| 1 | Salmon Poetry | |
| 1 | Stewed Rhubarb Press | |
| 1 | Sunnyoutside | |
| 1 | University of Tampa Press | |
| 1 | Weasel Press | |
| 1 | Written Image | |
