2025 Elgin Award Candidates
For books published in 2023 and 2024
2025 Elgin Chair: Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in Amazing Stories, The Dead Lands, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Siren’s Call, Midnight Echo, The Audient Void, Dreams and Nightmares, Under Her Skin (Black Spot) Vastarien: Women’s Horror (Grimscribe), and many other places. Nominations include the Pushcart, Elgin, Best of the Net and Rhysling. Her latest book is Curses, Black Spells and Hexes (Alien Buddha). An active member of both the SFPA and the HWA, she lives in a suitably haunted house on the edge of the known world. There are UFOs and werewolves.
Nominations for the Elgin Awards are open. DEADLINE May 31. For information on how to nominate books, please visit the Elgin Awards nomination page.
This page was last updated June 19, 2025.
Chapbooks (18 chapbooks nominated)
- Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Wild Ink Publishing, 2024)
- Annotated Daniel • James Rome and James Knight • (Steel Incisors, 2023)
- A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness • Angela Acosta • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
- Beyond the Moones Sphere • Ruth Berman • (Crumbfairy Press, 2024)
- Distilled From Water: Speculative Poetry About Water • Herb Kauderer • (Written Image Press, 2024)
- Ephemeral Village • Daniel Ausema • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)
- Imitation of Life • L. Marie Wood • (Falstaff Books, 2024)
- The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)
- The Last Hurrah • West Ambrose • (Bottlecap Press, 2024)
- Micropoetry for Microplanets • Brian U. Garrison • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
- Mindscapes • G. O. Clark • (Hireath Publishing, 2024)
- "Nisus and Euryalus at the Louvre" • West Ambrose • OnlyPoems February 2024
- The Second Dream • Madelaine Culver • (Steel Incisors, 2024)
- Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook • Zachary Cahill • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Vampire Ventures • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Alien Buddha, 2023)
- Water-Kin • Mahaila Smith • (Metatron Press, 2024)
- Wheeling, Yet Not Free • Alan Katerinsky • (Written Image Press, 2024)
- World's End Feast • Auzin • (Bottlecap Press, 2024)
Full-Length Books (52 books nominated)
- 39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (CyberWit Press, 2023)
- Ambush at Still Lake • Caroline Bird • (Carcanet, 2024)
- Animal Gnosis • Denise Dumars • (Alien Buddha Press, 2024)
- Annabel Lee, in Shadow • John Urbancik • (Dark Fluidity, 2023)
- At Summer's Wistful End • K. A. Opperman • (Jackanapes Press, 2024)
- Baby Cerberus • Natasha Ramoutar • (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
- Bestial Mouths • Brenda S. Tolian• (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2024)
- The Black Ship • David Clink • (Aeolus House, 2023)
- The Body as Haunted • Pixie Bruner • (Authortunities Press, 2024)
- The Body Snatchers and Other Death Rituals • Kurt Newton • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)
- Calypso • Oliver K. Langmead • (Titan Press, 2024)
- Daddies, Demons and the Dawn • ayana walker • (Bookleaf Publishing, 2024)
- The Dark Between the Twilight • Jamal Hodge • (Crystal Lake Pub, 2024)
- Dark Woods Rising • A J Dalton • (Starship Sloane Publishing, 2024)
- Darkest Days and Haunted Ways • Ashley Dioses • (Jackanapes Press, 2023)
- Death Styles • Joyelle McSweeney • (Nightboat Books, 2024)
- Denmark: Variations • James Tadd Adcox • (Hem Press Books, 2023)
- Dragons & Rayguns • Vince Gotera • (Final Thursday Press, 2024)
- Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha, 2023)
- Electric Cat City: A Poesy • Anna Cates • (Red Moon Books, 2023)
- Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud • Lee Murray • (The Cuba Press, 2024)
- The Future is Brief • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
- The Goose Liver Anthology • Ken Anderson • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Hairy Hullabaloo • Richard Stevenson • (Starship Sloane Publishing, 2024)
- Hatch: Poems • Jenny Irish • (Curbstone Books, 2024)
- How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide • Pamela Miller • (Unsolicited Press, 2024)
- Ill Weathers and Other Fates • Blair Hamelink • (Quillkeepers Press, 2024)
- Infernas • West Ambrose • (West of Canon Press, 2023)
- LARPing IRL • S. Michael Shrawder • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams • Colleen Anderson • (Yuriko Publishing, 2023)
- Medea Redux/Hares on the Mountain • Ali Graham • (Hem Press Books, 2024)
- Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry • Sumiko Saulson • (Bludgeoned Girls Press, 2024)
- Mexicans On The Moon • Pedro Iniguez • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)
- Moth Frenzy • Shane D. Keene • (Self-published, 2024)
- MOTHERDEVIL • Kailey Tedesco • (White Stag Publishing, 2024)
- The ONEIRONAUT Ø1 • Sheri-D Wilson • (Write Bloody North, 2023)
- The Phoenix Knight • Draco Amethystus • (Storm Dragon Publishing, 2024)
- Pittsburgh and other Poems • Alan Ira Gordon • (Hireath Publishing, 2024)
- Refrains • Stephen Sunderland • (Steel Incisors, 2023)
- A Registry of Omens • Kendra P. Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)
- Sacred Flute • John C. Mannone • (Iris Books, 2024)
- The Second Stop is Jupiter • upfromsumdirt • (Wayne State Press, 2023)
- Surrealia • Miguel O. Mitchell • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2024)
- Tea for the Wicked • Serena Morrigan • (Self-published, 2024)
- Theatre Macabre—The Little Book of Horror Poetry • Sèphera Girón • (Great Lakes Horror Company, 2024)
- Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions • Maxwell I. Gold • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2024)
- Unwelcome Guests • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (Weird House Press, 2024)
- Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness • Gerri Leen • (Self-published, 2024)
- The Ward at Twilight • Ken Anderson • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)
- Weird Worlds • Colleen Anderson • (Weird House Press, 2024)
- A Wheel of Ravens • Adam Bolivar • (Jackanapes Press, 2023)
- Xenoforming • Deborah L. Davitt • (Self-published, 2024)
Nominations Per Press (45 presses)
| Press | Number of Nominations |
|---|---|
| Aeolus House | 1 |
| Alien Buddha Press | 3 |
| Authortunities Press | 1 |
| Bludgeoned Girls Press | 1 |
| Bookleaf Publishing | 1 |
| Bottlecap Press | 2 |
| Carcanet | 1 |
| Crumbfairy Press | 1 |
| Crystal Lake Pub | 1 |
| The Cuba Press | 1 |
| Curbstone Books | 1 |
| CyberWit Press | 1 |
| Dark Fluidity | 1 |
| Falstaff Book | 1 |
| Final Thursday Press | 1 |
| Gnashing Teeth Publishing | 1 |
| Great Lakes Horror Company | 1 |
| Hem Press Books | 2 |
| Hireath Publishing | 2 |
| Iris Books | 1 |
| Island of Wak-Wak | 3 |
| Jackanapes Press | 3 |
| Metatron Press | 1 |
| Nightboat Books | 1 |
| OnlyPoems | 1 |
| Quillkeepers Press | 1 |
| Raw Dog Screaming Press | 2 |
| Red Moon Books | 1 |
| Red Ogre Review | 5 |
| Self-published | 4 |
| Space Cowboy Books | 3 |
| Starship Sloane Publishing | 2 |
| Steel Incisors | 3 |
| Storm Dragon Publishing | 1 |
| Sword & Kettle Press | 1 |
| Titan Press | 1 |
| Unsolicited Press | 1 |
| Wayne State Press | 1 |
| Weird House Press | 2 |
| West of Canon Press | 1 |
| White Stag Publishing | 1 |
| Wild Ink Publishing | 1 |
| Wolsak and Wynn | 1 |
| Write Bloody North | 1 |
| Written Image Press | 2 |
| Yuriko Publishing | 1 |
