| Chapbooks (21 chapbooks nominated) |
| Astropoetry • Christina Sng (Alban Lake, 2017) |
| Built to Serve • G. O. Clark (Alban Lake, 2017) |
| Cascade of Stardust • Herb Kauderer (Written Image, 2017) |
| A Catalogue of the Further Suns • F. J. Bergmann (Gold Line Press, 2017) |
| Crossing Paths at Midnight • Alan Katerinsky (CWP Collective Press, 2017) |
| Daughter Shaman Sings Blood Anthem • Kristi Carter (Porkbelly Press, 2017) |
| Death by Sex Machine • Franny Choi (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) |
| The Desiring Object OR Voyager Two Explains to the Gathering Stars How She Came to Glow Among Them • Jessica Rae Bergamino (Sundress Publications, 2016) |
| Feeding the Dead • Brett Gaffney (Porkbelly Press, 2017) |
| Glitter Blood • Kayla Bashe (2017) |
| Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay • Sarah Ann Winn (Porkbelly Press, 2016) |
| hiku [pull] by James A. H. White (Porkbelly Press, 2016) |
| Khas Pidgin • Salik Shah (2017) |
| Like Ash in the Air After Something Has Burned • Fox Frazier-Foley (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2017) |
| New Yesterdays, New Tomorrows • Brian Garrison (2017) |
| Quick Bright Things: poems of fantasy & myth • P.S. Cottier (Ginninderra Press, 2016) |
| Screaming • John Reinhart (Lion Tamer Press, 2017) |
| Secret Histories • Michael McInnis (White Knuckle Press, 2017) |
| The Terraformers • Dan Hoy (Third Man Books, 2017) |
| Violet Hours • Jeanie Tomasko (Taraxia Press, 2016) |
| What Stranger Miracles • James Brush (White Knuckle Press, 2016) |
| Full-length Books (30 books nominated) |
| 500 Apocalypses • Phantom Williams (2016) |
| Alchemy of Dreams • Michael Fantina (Hippocampus Press, 2017) |
| Bone Confetti • Muriel Leung (Noemi Press, 2016) |
| The Book of Robot • Ken Poyner (Barking Moose Press, 2016) |
| Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975–2016 • Bruce Boston (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2016) |
| broken bottle of time • John Reinhart (Alban Lake, 2017) |
| A Collection of Nightmares • Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017) |
| Conjoining • Heidi Czerwiec (Sable Books, 2017) |
| Cosmovore • Kristi Carter (Aqueduct Press, 2017) |
| Darkverse: The Shadow Hours • Lori R. Lopez (Fairyfly Entertainment, 2017) |
| Diary of a Sorceress • Ashley Dioses (Hippocampus Press, 2017) |
| Flying Solo: The Lana Invasion • Herb Kauderer (The Poet's Haven, 2017) |
| God's Will for Monsters • Rachelle Cruz (Inlandia Institute, 2017) |
| Heliophobia • Saba Syed Razvi (Finishing Line Press, 2017) |
| In the Crocodile Gardens • Saba Syed Razvi (Agape Editions, 2016) |
| Liberating the Astronauts • Christina M. Rau (Aqueduct Press, 2017) |
| Love for Slaughter • Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse Books, 2017) |
| Love Robot • Margaret Rhee (The Operating System, 2017) |
| Marginalia to Stone Bird • Rose Lemberg (Aqueduct Press, 2016) |
| Metastable Systems • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Cyberwizard Productions, 2017) |
| No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise • Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Kore Press, 2017) |
| No Mercy • Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017) |
| The Primitive Observatory • Gregory Kimbrell (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) |
| The Role of Lightning in Evolution • David Clink (Kelp Queen Press, 2016) |
| Sacrificial Nights • Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2016) |
| Satan's Sweethearts • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Weasel Press, 2017) |
| Through Immortal Shadows Singing • Mari Ness (Papaveria Press, 2017) |
| When the Night Owl Screams • Michael H. Hanson (Moon Dream Press, 2017) |
| Winds from Sheol • Fred Phillips (Hippocampus Press, 2017) |
| Witch Wife • Kiki Petrosino (Sarabande Books, 2017) |
Josh Brown is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. A graduate of the University of Minnesota–Duluth with a degree in English Literature, he has spent the past fifteen years in the publishing industry working for and with award-winning publishers and best-selling authors. An active member of SFPA, his work can be found in numerous anthologies as well as in Star*Line, Scifaikuest, Mithila Review, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, and more. His essay, “Poems and Songs of The Hobbit” was recently featured in Critical Insights: The Hobbit (Salem Press, 2016). He served as editor for issue 20 of Eye to the Telescope, the official online journal of the SFPA. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons. 