Elgin and Dwarf Star Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the winners of this year’s Elgin Award for Books and Dwarf Star Awards for Short Speculative Poetry. The winner of the Dward Star Award will be reprinted in the SFPA anthology The 2013 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2013.

Elgin Awards

• Book: Demonstra, by Bryan Thao Worra
• Chapbook: The Sex Lives of Monsters, by Helen Marshall

Dwarf Star

• “And Deeper than Did Ever Plummet Sound,” by Matt Joiner

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Elgin Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the winners of this year’s Elgin Awards, for speculative fiction poetry chapbook and the full-length poetry book. this is the first year for this award, which is named for SFPA Founder Suzette Haden Elgin.

• Chapbook: Out of the Black Forest, F.J. Bergmann
• Book length: Lovers & Killers, by Mary Turzillo

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