The Baltimore Science Fiction Society announced today that the BSFS Annual Poetry Contest has been renamed in honor of SF author Steve Miller. The official contest name is now the Steve Miller BSFS Annual Poetry Contest.
With the approval of Steve’s wife and collaborator, Sharon Lee, the BSFS membership voted to rename the contest. Steve passed away in February 2024.
The poetry contest was founded in 2008, and has continued annually since then, regularly garnering hundreds of entries from around the world. Winning poets receive a cash prize and have their poems published on the BSFS website and in the BSFAN, the souvenir book for Balticon, the annual convention sponsored by BSFS on Memorial Day weekend. They are also granted a full weekend membership and are invited to read their winning entries.
Complete rules and winning entries for previous years can be found here.
More information about Steve Miller and Sharon Lee and their work can be found at their website Korval.com.
More information about BSFS and Balticon.org can be found at the links.
[Based on a press release.]
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Nice! I like it.
Its a mouthful but, The Steve Miller Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) Annual Poetry Contest does have a nice ring to it.
Oh, excellent. Well done!
So when they announce the winners, can they say “It’s Miller Time”?
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If you: leave out the redundant “(BSFS)”; do a triplet on “science fiction” so the beat on “Society” is the same in both versions; put a rest mark where the original has “and”; and then put the stress on the final syllable in “Contest,” you can sing it to “The New Ashmolean Marching Society And Students’ Conservatory Band”:
The Steve Miller Baltimore Science Fiction Society [rest] Annual Poetry Contést
I leave remaining lyrics to the filkers.
Alternatively, you can omit the rest mark and instead give “Annual” a full beat for each vowel (Ann-u-al), placing “Ann-” on the original’s “and..” That works too..