Elgin Award
The Elgin Award is a literary award , which since 2013 science fiction - Poetry annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association is awarded (SFPA).
The award goes to lyrical works that have appeared in the two previous years. It is awarded in the two categories Book (over 40 pages) and Chapbook (10 to 39 pages). A first to third place is awarded in each category. The members of the SFPA nominate and vote on the award winners.
The name of the award honors the achievements of the linguist and science fiction author Suzette Haden Elgin , who died in 2015, and the founder of the SFPA.
List of award winners
The first prize winners are listed below.
- Book
- 2019 Marge Simon & Alessandro Manzetti : War
- 2018 Christina M. Rau : Liberating the Astronauts
- 2017 Jeannine Hall Gailey : Field Guide to the End of the World
- 2016 Mary Soon Lee : Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon Book 1
- 2015 Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo : Sweet Poison
- 2014 Bryan Thao Worra : Demonstra
- 2013 Mary Turzillo : Lovers & Killers
- Chapbook
- 2019 Holly Lyn Walrath : Glimmerglass Girl
- 2018 FJ Bergmann : A Catalog of the Further Suns
- 2017 Neil Aitken : Leviathan
- 2016 Shannon Connor Winward : Undoing Winter
- 2015 Mary McMyne : Wolf Skin
- 2014 Helen Marshall : The Sex Lives of Monsters
- 2013 FJ Bergmann : Out of the Black Forest
See also
Web links
- official page
- Elgin Awards , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Elgin Awards , overview in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Elgin Awards , entry in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)