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2024 Elgin Award Finalists

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has released the ballot for the Elgin Award. The award is named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, and is presented in two categories, Chapbook and Book.

Eligible for this year’s awards were works published in 2021 and 2022. SFPA members have from July 1-September 15 to vote for the winners.

Chapbooks (15 chapbooks nominated)

  • Angels & Insects are Creatures with Wings • Amy Jannotti (Kith Books, 2023)
  • Beautiful Malady • Ennis Rook Bashe • (Interstellar Flight Press, 2023)
  • A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness • Angela Acosta • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
  • The Book of Sleep • Herb Kauderer (Written Image, 2023)
  • Chapel of Celluloid/Capela de Celulóide • Wade German • (Raphus Press, 2023)
  • Dionysia • Kim Deyn (Verve Poetry, 2023)
  • Magic Lives in Girls • Sadee Bee (Kith Books, 2023)
  • Maurs Maundering • Denise Dumars • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
  • Mutable Forests • Noah David Roberts (Kith Books, 2023)
  • The Owl Kingdom • Rebecca Marjesdatter (Crumb Fairy Press, 2023)
  • Shelf Life • F.J. Bergmann • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
  • The Telepathy Machine • Jean-Paul L. Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
  • Unicorn Death Moon • Zachary Cahill • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
  • Vampire Ventures • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
  • Worm Sonnets • Amelia Gorman • (Quarter Press, 2023)

Full-length Books (59 books nominated)

  • 39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (Cyberwit Press, 2023)
  • 5 Spirits in My Mouth • Pan Morigan (Querencia Press, 2023)
  • Amnita: the Legend of Amnita or the Amazon • Eleanor Arneson (Crumbfairy Press, 2022)
  • anOther Mythology • Maxwell I. Gold (Interstellar Flight Press, 2023)
  • Bad Omens • Jessica Drake-Thomas (Querencia Press, 2022)
  • Black Observatory: Poems • Christopher Brean Murray (Milkweed Editions, 2023)
  • The Black Ship • David Clink (Aeolus House Press, 2023)
  • Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums • Maxwell I. Gold • (Hex Publishers, 2023)
  • Bless the Daughter Raised • a Voice in Her Head • Warsan Shire • (Penguin Random House, 2022)
  • The Border Simulator: Poems • Gabriel Dozal (Author), Natasha Tiniacos (Translator) • (One World, 2023)
  • Bounded • Eternity • Deborah L. Davitt (self-published, 2022)
  • Bramah’s Quest • Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Harbour Publishing, 2023)
  • But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves • Conyer Clayton (Anvil Press, 2022)
  • Cast From Darkness • Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo • (Mind’s Eye Publications, 2023)
  • The Cat Star and other Poems • Terry A. Garey (Crumbfairy Press, 2022)
  • Doubt & Circuitry • T.D. Walker (Southern Arizona Press, 2023)
  • Dream Rooms • River Halen (Book*hug Press, 2022)
  • Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
  • Flare, Corona • Jeannine Hall Gailey (BOA Editions, 2022)
  • Flux Lines • John C. Mannone (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2022)
  • From Voyages Unreturning • Deborah L. Davitt • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
  • The Full Moon Whaling Chronicles • Jason Guriel • (Biblioasis, 2023)
  • Grab • Kendra Preston Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)
  • The Gravity of Existence • Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)
  • Halloween Hearts • Adele Gardner (Jackanapes Press, 2022)
  • Here I Am, Pry Me Open • Atlas St. Cloud (Kith Books, 2023)
  • How to Navigate Our Universe • Mary Soon Lee • (Self Published, 2023)
  • Hydra Medusa • Brandon Shimoda • (Nightboat Books, 2023)
  • I Dreamed a World • Colleen Anderson (LVP Publications, 2022)
  • Let the Dead In • Saida Agostini (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022)
  • The Lies We Weave • Grace R. Reynolds (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023)
  • The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams • Colleen Anderson (Yuriko Publishing, 2023)
  • Mobius Lyrics • Maxwell I. Gold & Angela Yuriko Smith (Independent Legions Publishing, 2022)
  • Monument • Manahil Bandukwala (Brick Books, 2022)
  • Moonlight and Monsters • Lauren Scharhag • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2023)
  • Neon Lights and Plane Tickets • Eli Alemán • (Self-Published, 2023)
  • Night Life: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection • Alba Sarria • (Monstrous Love Lounge Press, 2023)
  • The Nothing Box • Steven Withrow (Mind’s Eye Publications, 2023)
  • Numinous Stones • Holly Lyn Walrath • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
  • On the Subject of Blackberries • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2023)
  • Plenitude • Daniel Sarah Karasik (Book*hug Press, 2022)
  • The Quiet Ways I Destroy You • Jessica McHugh • (Apokrupha Press, 2023)
  • Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair • Marisca Pichette • (Android Press, 2023)
  • Roadmap • Monica Prince (Santa Fe Writer’s Project, 2023)
  • The Savior and the Shadow Queen: A Fantastical Tale Told Through Sequential Poems • Kimberly McAfee (Quillkeepers Press, 2023)
  • The Second Stop is Jupiter • upfromsomedirt • (Wayne State University Press, 2023)
  • Selected Poems 1965-2020 • Michael Butterworth • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)
  • Sifting the Ashes • Michael Bailey and Marge Simon • (Crystal Lake, 2022)
  • Soft Apocalypse • Leah Nieboer • (University of Georgia Press, 2023)
  • The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers • Christine Butterworth-McDermott (Fomite Press, 2023)
  • Star Tent: A Triptych • Amie Whittemore (Tolsun Books, 2023)
  • Stolen • Sophie Bowns (Self-published, 2022)
  • Summoning Space Travelers • Angela Acosta (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022)
  • Syntax Error • Siobhan Dunlop (Kith Books, 2023)
  • Texture of Silence • Eugen Bacon & Steve Simpson (Independent Legions Publishing, 2023)
  • To Daughter a Devil • Megan Mary Moore (Unsolicited Press, 2023)
  • Tombstones: Selected Horror Poems • G.O. Clark • (Weird House Press, 2022)
  • Village • LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Coffee House Press, 2023)
  • A Wheel of Ravens: Alliterative Verse in the Old English Style • Adam Bolivar (Jackanapes Press, 2023)

2024 SFPA Poetry Contest Opens

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The 2024 SFPA Speculative Poetry Contest began taking entries on June 1 and will continue through August 31. The contest is open to all poets, including non-SFPA-members. Prizes will be awarded for best unpublished poem in three categories:

  • Dwarf (poems 1–10 lines [prose poems 0–100 words])
  • Short (11–49 lines [prose poems 101–499 words])
  • Long (50 lines and more [prose 500 words and up])

Line count does not include title or stanza breaks. All sub-genres of speculative poetry are allowed in any form.

Prizes in each category (Dwarf, Short, Long) will be $150 First Prize, $75 Second Prize, $25 Third Prize. Publication on the SFPA website for first through third places. There is an entry fee of $3 per poem.

The contest judge is Stephanie M. Wytovich. Her work has been showcased in Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 8 & 15. Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press. She won the Bram Stoker Award for her poetry collection, Brothel. Her debut novel, The Eighth, is published with Dark Regions Press, and her nonfiction craft book for speculative poetry, Writing Poetry in the Dark, is available from Raw Dog Screaming Press.

The contest chair is Angela Yuriko Smith, a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space & Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and an HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities, at the link.

Entries are read blind. Unpublished poems only. Author retains rights, except that first through third place winners will be published on the SPFA website. Full guidelines here.

[Based on a press release.]

SFPA Announces Generative AI Policy

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) membership has voted a complete ban against using AI-produced work in their publications, and will treat such work as ineligible for its awards.

The organization will not accept or publish poetry, art, or other works created using a generative tool, either wholly or in part, and that published works created using a generative tool will not be eligible for SFPA awards, including the Rhysling, Elgin, and SFPA Poetry Awards.

Earlier this month the SFPA Executive Committee presented members two options for the SFPA to adopt as its policy regarding works derived from generative tools (including AI, large language models, etc). With 168 members voting, the outcome was as follows:

  • 69%: I support a complete AI ban.
  • 25%: I support a limited AI ban.
  • 7%: I support neither statement.

The statement SFPA adopted follows.

SFPA’S STATEMENT ON GENERATIVE AI

SFPA Statement on Generative AI[1]: Introduction

The SFPA recognizes and supports the creative talent of human beings. While the organization encourages creative exploration of new tools, we can not support the use of tools built on the exploitation of other people’s creative work without their consent or compensation.

While the terms “AI,” “LLM,” and “generative media” (which we will call “generative tools” for this statement) are being used for many applications, these technologies are part of a rapidly changing environment and no two are designed the same way. There have been cases of proven and alleged copyright infringement with many such tools, however, as well as arguments that they exploit creative work.

The allegations of copyright infringement in generative tools typically rests on the fact that these tools are “trained” on datasets made of other artists’ and authors’ work without their consent[2]. These training materials are how generative tools create “new” works, which may or may not resemble the original creator’s work. However, not all generative tools are necessarily exploitative or plagiaristic, with some companies looking to create ethical alternatives trained on datasets that are made up solely of creator-submitted and compensated materials.

As an organization that supports creators, the SFPA will not accept or publish poetry, art, or other works created using a generative tool, either wholly or in part.

Published works created using a generative tool will not be eligible for SFPA awards.

The SFPA will also not use generative works in any of its official publications, including Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, the SpecPo Blog, and the SFPA website.

[1] Generative AI can be thought of as a machine-learning model that is trained to create new data, rather than making a prediction about a specific dataset. A generative AI system is one that learns to generate more objects that look like the data it was trained on.” (Zewe, 2023)

[2] “In a case filed in late 2022, Andersen v. Stability AI et al., three artists formed a class to sue multiple generative AI platforms on the basis of the AI using their original works without license to train their AI in their styles, allowing users to generate works that … would be unauthorized derivative works.” (Appel, Neelbauer, and Schweidel, 2023)

The 2024 Rhysling Award Finalists

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s  juries have chosen the 2024 Rhysling Award finalists from the previously announced longlists. 

SHORT POEMS (50 finalists)

  • Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity!, Emily Ruth Verona, Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II
  • The Beauty of Monsters, Angela Liu, Small Wonders 1
  • The Blight of Kezia, Patricia Gomes, HWA Poetry Showcase X
  • The Day We All Died, A Little, Lisa Timpf, Radon 5
  • Deadweight, Jack Cooper, Propel 7
  • Dear Mars, Susan L. Lin, The Sprawl Mag 1.2
  • Dispatches from the Dragon’s Den, Mary Soon Lee, Star*Line 46.2
  • Dr. Jekyll, West Ambrose, Thin Veil Press December
  • First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare, Emily Jiang, Uncanny 53
  • Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness, Ali Trotta, The Deadlands 31
  • Gods of the Garden, Steven Withrow, Spectral Realms 19
  • The Goth Girls’ Gun Gang, Marisca Pichette, The Dread Machine 3.2
  • Guiding Star, Tim Jones, Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)
  • Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke, Morgan L. Ventura, Banshee 15
  • hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice, Ennis Rook Bashe, Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice
  • Hi! I am your Cortical Update!, Mahaila Smith, Star*Line 46.3
  • How to Make the Animal Perfect?, Linda D. Addison, Weird Tales 100
  • I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon, Jennessa Hester, HAD October
  • Invasive, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Polar Starlight 9
  • kan-da-ka, Nadaa Hussein, Apparition Lit 23
  • Language as a Form of Breath, Angel Leal, Apparition Lit October
  • The Lantern of September, Scott Couturier, Spectral Realms 19
  • Let Us Dream, Myna Chang, Small Wonders 3
  • The Magician’s Foundling, Angel Leal, Heartlines Spec 2
  • The Man with the Stone Flute, Joshua St. Claire, Abyss & Apex 87
  • Mass-Market Affair, Casey Aimer, Star*Line 46.4
  • Mom’s Surprise, Francis W. Alexander, Tales from the Moonlit Path June
  • A Murder of Crows, Alicia Hilton, Ice Queen 11
  • No One Now Remembers, Geoffrey Landis, Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.
  • orion conquers the sky, Maria Zoccula, On Spec 33.2
  • Pines in the Wind, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)
  • The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon, T.D. Walker, Radon Journal 5
  • A Prayer for the Surviving, Marisca Pichette, Haven Speculative 9
  • Pre-Nuptial, F. J. Bergmann, The Vampiricon (Mind’s Eye Publications)
  • The Problem of Pain, Anna Cates, Eye on the Telescope 49
  • The Return of the Sauceress, F. J. Bergmann, The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
  • Sea Change, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader, Scifaikuest May
  • Seed of Power, Linda D. Addison, The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)
  • Sleeping Beauties, Carina Bissett, HWA Poetry Showcase X
  • Solar Punks, J. D. Harlock, The Dread Machine 3.1
  • Song of the Last Hour, Samuel A. Betiku, The Deadlands 22
  • Sphinx, Mary Soon Lee, Asimov’s September/October
  • Storm Watchers (a drabbun), Terrie Leigh Relf, Space & Time
  • Sunflower Astronaut, Charlie Espinosa, Strange Horizons July
  • Three Hearts as One, G. O. Clark, Asimov’s May/June
  • Troy, Carolyn Clink, Polar Starlight 12
  • Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary, John Grey, Medusa’s Kitchen September
  • Under World, Jacqueline West, Carmina Magazine September
  • Walking in the Starry World, John Philip Johnson, Orion’s Belt May
  • Whispers in Ink, Angela Yuriko Smith, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)

LONG POEMS (25 finalists)

  • Archivist of a Lost World, Gerri Leen, Eccentric Orbits 4
  • As the witch burns, Marisca Pichette, Fantasy 87
  • Brigid the Poet, Adele Gardner, Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
  • Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure), Armoni “Monihymn” Boone, Fiyah 26
  • Cradling Fish, Laura Ma, Strange Horizons May
  • Dream Visions, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Eccentric Orbits 4
  • Eight Dwarfs on Planet X, Avra Margariti, Radon Journal 3
  • The Giants of Kandahar, Anna Cates, Abyss & Apex 88
  • How to Haunt a Northern Lake, Lora Gray, Uncanny 55
  • Impostor Syndrome, Robert Borski, Dreams and Nightmares 124
  • The Incessant Rain, Rhiannon Owens, Evermore 3
  • Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis, Angela Liu, Strange Horizons November
  • Little Brown Changeling, Lauren Scharhag, Aphelion 283
  • A Mere Million Miles from Earth, John C. Mannone, Altered Reality April
  • Pilot, Akua Lezli Hope, Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
  • Protocol, Jamie Simpher, Small Wonders 5
  • Sleep Dragon, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
  • Slow Dreaming, Herb Kauderer, The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
  • St. Sebastian Goes To Confession, West Ambrose, Mouthfeel 1
  • Value Measure, Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish, Dreams and Nightmares 125
  • A Weather of My Own Making, Nnadi Samuel, Silver Blade 56
  • Welcoming the New Girl, Beth Cato, Penumbric October
  • What You Find at the Center, Elizabeth R McClellan, Haven Spec Magazine 12
  • The Witch Makes Her To-Do List, Theodora Goss, Uncanny 50
  • The Year It Changed, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Star*Line 46.4

F. J. Bergmann Named SFPA Grand Master; Wins Lifetime Service Award

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has bestowed to honors on F.J. Bergmann, the SFPA Grandmaster Award and the President’s Lifetime Service Award.

The SFPA Grand Master Award recognizes the contributions in poetry that a person has made in their lifetime. Their superior skill and a body of work are testaments to talent and a resource for inspiring other poets and furthering knowledge of the genre.
 
The President’s Lifetime Service Award is given to an individual who has furthered the knowledge, appreciation, and acceptance of the speculative poetry genre, and who has served the SFPA in a significant volunteer capacity.  
 
Members vote on nominees for the Grand Master Award; and upon the President’s recommendation, the executive committee votes on the Lifetime Service Award candidate. F. J. Bergmann is the recipient of both awards for 2024.

She has served the SFPA behind the scenes for many years. She has been on the board, has been Elgin Chair, Rhysling editor, and does the layout and graphic design for the SFPA publications. She was webmaster for many years, and continues to be a pillar for the SFPA. Her ongoing, selfless volunteerism will inspire others to contribute to the genre and the SFPA. She has contributed to discussions and frequently posts about other poems and poets, spreading the love and knowledge of speculative poetry. She works as editor on other publications, and her body of work speaks for itself. She has won most of the SFPA awards as well as the contest and continues to write and contribute to the speculative poetry genre in many ways.

F. J. Bergmann

F. J. Bergmann is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), past editor of Star*Line, managing editor of MadHat Press (madhat-press.com), poetry editor for Weird House Press (weirdhousepress.com), and freelances as a copy editor and book designer. She lives in Wisconsin with a husband, intermittent daughters, cats and a horse, and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. Her writing awards include SFPA Rhysling Awards for both long and short poems and SFPA Elgin Awards for two chapbooks: Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press, 2012), a collection of conflated fairy tales, and A Catalogue of the Further Suns, first-contact reports from interstellar expeditions, winner of the 2017 Gold Line Press manuscript competition. She was a Writers of the Future winner. Venues where her poems have appeared include Abyss & Apex, Analog, Asimov’s SF, and elsewhere in the alphabet. She has competed at National Poetry Slam with the Madison Urban Spoken Word slam team. While lacking academic literary qualifications, she is kind to those so encumbered. She thinks imagination can compensate for anything.

To date, the SFPA has conferred twelve Grand Master Awards. The previous eleven are:

  • Akua Lezli Hope (2022)
  • Mary Soon Lee (2022)
  • Linda D. Addison (2020)
  • Ann K. Schwader (2018)
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (2017)
  • Marge Simon (2015)
  • Steve Sneyd (2015)
  • Jane Yolen (2010)
  • Ray Bradbury (2008)
  • Robert Frazier (2005)
  • Bruce Boston (1999)

[Based on a press release.]

2023 Elgin Award Winners

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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) announced the winners of the 2023 Elgin Awards on September 23.

CHAPBOOK


1st place: The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems by Jane Yolen (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)

2nd place: Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets by Bruce Boston (Mind’s Eye Publishing, 2022)

3rd place: Cajuns in Space by Denise Dumars (2022)

BOOK

1st place: Some Disassembly Required by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Diminuendo Press, 2022)

2nd place: The Saint of Witches by Avra Margariti (Weasel Press, 2022)

3rd place (tie): 

  • Elegies of Rotting Stars by Tiffany Morris (Nictitating Books, 2022)
  • Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea & Other Tales to Foment Revolution by Rebecca Buchanan (Jackanapes Press, 2022)

2023 Elgin Award Finalists

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Nominations for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s Elgin Award have closed and Morgan L. Ventura, the 2023 Elgin Award Chair reports the works named below are the nominees.

The award is named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, and is presented in two categories, Chapbook and Book. Eligible for this year’s awards were works published in 2021 and 2022. SFPA members will have from July 1-September 15 to vote for the winners.

Chapbooks (18 chapbooks nominated)
body in motion • Gretchen Rockwell • (Perhappened Press, 2021)
The Book of Haibun: 26 Modern Interpretations of the Ancient Story/Verse Form • Herb Kauderer • (Written Image Press, 2022)
Cajuns in Space • Denise Dumars (self-published, 2022)
Charm for Catching a Train • Milena Williamson • (Green Bottle Press, 2022)
Creature Features • Noel Sloboda (Main Street Rag, 2022)
Horrific Punctuation • John Reinhart (Arson Press, 2021)
Curses and Recurses: Poems of Writing and Damnation • Herb Kauderer • (Written Image Press, 2021)
Ghosts, Trolls, and Other Things on the Internet • C. E. Hoffman • (Bottlecap Press, 2022)
hortus animarum • Sienna Tristen • (Frog Hollow Press, 2022)
In the Dead of Night • James Bryant • (self-published, 2021)
The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems • Jane Yolen • (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
Lexicon of Future Selves • Gretchen Rockwell (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021)
Messengers of the Macabre • LindaAnn LoSchiavo & David Davies • (Audience Askew, 2022)
space neon neon space • Luna Rey Hall • (Variant Lit, 2022)
Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets • Bruce Boston (Mind’s Eye Publishing, 2022)
Terror of the Zombie Zonnets: Season Three of Planet of the Zombie Zonnets • Juan Manuel Pérez • (House of the Fighting Chupacabras, 2022)
Time’s Arrow • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2022)
Utopian Problems • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2021)
Full-length Books (57 books nominated)
[…] • Ava Hoffman (Astrophil Press, 2021)
Amnita: The Legend of Amnita of the Amazon • Eleanor Arnason • (Crumb Fairy Press, 2022)
Black Widow • Louise Worthington • (Red Escape Publishing, 2022)
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head • Warsan Shire • (Penguin Random House, 2022)
Bounded by Eternity • Deborah L. Davitt • (Edda Earth, 2022)
Call Me Spes • Sara Cahill Marron • (MadHat Press, 2022)
The Cat Star and Other Poems • Terry A. Garey • (Crumbfairy Press, 2022)
Clock Star Rose Spine • Fran Wilde • (Lanternfish Press, 2021)
Crime Scene • Cynthia Pelayo • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2022)
Crushed Velvet • Mark McLaughlin • (self-published, 2022)
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows • John Koenig (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Eclipse of the Moon • Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications, 2021)
Elegies of Rotting Stars • Tiffany Morris • (Nictitating Books, 2022)
Escaping the Body • Chloe N. Clark (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)
Flare, Corona • Jeannine Hall Gailey • (BOA Editions, 2022)
Flux Lines • John C. Mannone • (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2022)
Foundlings • Cindy O’Quinn & Stephanie Ellis • (2022)
The Ghettobirds • Bryant O’Hara (Frayed Edge Press, 2021)
Girls from the County • Donna Lynch • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2022)
Glitter and Ghosts • Amy Zoellers • (Yuriko Publishing, 2022)
The Gravity of Existence • Christina Sng • (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)
Halloween Hearts • Adele Gardner (Jackanapes Press, 2022)
The Hand that Wounds • David E. Cowen • (Weasel Press, 2022)
I Awaken in October: Poems of Folk Horror and Halloween • Scott J. Couturier • (Jackanapes Press, 2022)
I Dreamed a World • Colleen Anderson • (Lycan Valley Press, 2022)
Instrumentals: Book One • Jonel Abellanosa • (Lemures Digital Collection, 2022)
Mathematics for Ladies • Jessy Randall • (Penguin Random House, 2022)
Mobius Lyrics • Maxwell I. Gold & Angela Yuriko Smith • (Independent Legions, 2022)
Naming the Ghost • Emily Hockaday • (Cornerstone Press, 2022)
No Farther Than the End of the Street • Benjamin Niespodziany • (Okay Donkey, 2022)
No Quarter: A Novella in Verse • Amanda Worthington • (self-published, 2022)
Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing but Enough • Kyle Tran Myhre • (Button Poetry, 2022)
Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea & Other Tales to Foment Revolution • Rebecca Buchanan • (Jackanapes Press, 2022)
Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose • Maxwell I. Gold (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2021)
Odyssey • John Urbancik (Dark Fluidity, 2021)
The Odyssey of Star Wars • Jack Mitchell (Abrams Image, 2021)
Para-Social Butterfly • Šari Dale • (Metatron Press, 2022)
Psalms and Sorceries • Wade German • (Hippocampus Press, 2022)
The Rat King • Sumiko Saulson • (Dooky Zines, 2022)
The Saint of Witches • Avra Margariti (Weasel Press, 2022)
The Saints of Capitalism • Benjamin Schmitt (New Meridian Arts Literary Press, 2021)
Saving Shadows • Eugen Bacon (NewCon Press, 2021)
The Sibyl • Hamant Singh • (Partridge Publishing, 2022)
Sifting the Ashes • Michael Bailey & Marge Simon (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2022)
The Silence Inside the World • Earl Livings • (Peggy Bright Books, 2021)
Some Disassembly Required • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (Diminuendo Press, 2022)
Songs of the Underland • Kurt Newton • (The Ravens Quoth Press, 2022)
Stone the Monsters, or Dance • Ken Poyner (Barking Moose Press, 2021)
Summoning Space Travelers • Angela Acosta • (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022)
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void • Jackie Wang • (Nightboat Books, 2021)
Superheroes Take Over the World • Wendy Rathbone • (self-pub, 2022)
Tombstones • G. O. Clark • (Weird House Press, 2022)
Victims • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo • (Weasel Press, 2022)
The Voice of the Burning House • John Shirley • (Jackanapes Press, 2021)
We’ve Been Here Before • Anne Carly Abad • (Aqueduct Press, 2022)
What appears in the dark • Pete Kelly • (Yuriko Publishing, 2022)
Where the Wolf • Sally Rosen Kindred • (Diode Editions, 2021)

2023 Rhysling Award Finalists

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the 2023 Rhysling Award Finalists.

There are two categories: Short poems of 11–49 lines (101–499 words for prose poems) and Long poems of 50–299 lines (500–1999 words for prose poems)

The selected poems will appear in the 2023 Rhysling Anthology and will be on the ballot for SFPA members to vote on beginning July 1.

SHORT POEMS (50 FINALISTS)

  • A Creation Myth, John C. Mannone, Songs of Eretz, Spring
  • A Spell for Winning Your Personal Injury Lawsuit, Marsheila Rockwell, Dreams and Nightmares 120
  • Biophilia, Sarah Grey, Strange Horizons, Fund Drive
  • Bitch Moon, Sarah Grey, Nightmare Magazine 118
  • Blå Jungfrun, Deborah L. Davitt, Strange Horizons, September 26
  • Black Pastoral: On Mars, Ariana Benson, Paranoid Tree 17
  • Cassandra as Climate Scientist, Jeannine Hall Gailey, California Quarterly 48:4
  • Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, ed. Lindy Ryan (Black Spot Books)
  • Exulansis, Silvatiicus Riddle, Liquid Imagination 51
  • Field Notes from the Anthropocene, Priya Chand, Nightmare Magazine 116
  • First Contact, Lisa Timpf, Eye to the Telescope 44
  • Fracking-lution, Linda D. Addison, Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
  • Gosh, it’s Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet, Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Strange Horizons, November 21
  • Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon, Jennifer Crow, Star*Line 45.1
  • If I Were Human, Marie Vibbert, Star*Line 45.2
  • In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White, Terese Mason Pierre, Uncanny 46
  • Intergalactic Baba Yaga, Sandra Lindow, Dreams and Nightmares 122
  • Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea, Mary Soon Lee, Uncanny Magazine 45
  • Laws of Exponents, John Reinhart, NewMyths.com 59
  • Leda Goes To The Doctor, Pankaj Khemka, Carmina Magazine, September
  • Lines to a Martian (Palabras a un habitante de Marte), Alfonsina Storni, Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December
  • Medea leaves behind a letter, FJ Doucet, Star*Line 45.1
  • Mind Compression, Madhur Anand, Parasitic Oscillations (Random House)
  • Monitors, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (with Kendall Evans), Star*Line 45.1
  • Near the end, your mother tells you she’s been seeing someone, Shannon Connor Winward, SFPA Poetry Contest
  • Necklace, Carolyn Clink, Frost Zone Zine 6
  • New Planet, Kathy Bailey, Dreams and Nightmares 122
  • Old Soldier, New Love, Vince Gotera, Eye To The Telescope 45
  • On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland, Nicole J. LeBoeuf, Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
  • Petrichor, Eva Papasoulioti, Utopia Science Fiction, April/May
  • Pittsburgh Temporal Transfer Station, Alan Ira Gordon, Star*Line 45.2
  • Please Hold, Anna Remennik, NewMyths.com 58
  • Raft of the Medusa, Marge Simon, Silver Blade 53
  • Regarding the Memory of Earth, Angela Acosta, Radon Journal 1
  • Sabbatical Somewhere Warm, Elizabeth McClellan, Star*Line 45.4
  • Shipwrecked, Gretchen Tessmer, The Deadlands 12
  • Status Transcript, Lee Murray, A Woman Unbecoming, eds. Rachel A. Brune & Carol Gyzander (Crone Girls Press)
  • Strange Progeny, Bruce Boston, Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
  • Tamales on Mars, Angela Acosta, The Sprawl Mag, October
  • The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End, Pedro Iniguez, Star*Line 45.3
  • The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End, Amelia Gorman, The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
  • The Long Night, Ryfkah, Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • The Optics of Space Travel, Angela Acosta, Eye to the Telescope 43
  • The Watcher on the Wall, Rebecca Bratten-Weiss, Reckoning 6
  • Time Skip, Alyza Taguilaso, The Deadlands 16
  • We Don’t Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End, Jordan Hirsch, The Future Fire 62
  • Werewolves in Space, Ruth Berman, Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • What Electrons Read, Mary Soon Lee, Simultaneous Times 31
  • What the Old Woman Knows, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Listen to Her UNF, March 23
  • What Wolves Read, Mary Soon Lee, Uppagus 54

LONG POEMS (25 FINALISTS)

  • The Bone Tree, Rebecca Buchanan, Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
  • Corvidae, Sarah Cannavo, Liquid Imagination 50
  • The Dead Palestinian Father, Rasha Abdulhadi, Anathema: Spec from the Margins 15
  • Debris, Deborah L. Davitt, The Avenue, May 18
  • EMDR, Marsheila Rockwell, Unnerving Magazine 17
  • ex-lovers & other ghosts, Herb Kauderer, Cold & Crisp 518
  • field notes from an investigation into the self, Max Pasakorn, Strange Horizons, August 29
  • From “Poem without Beginning or End”, Vivek Narayanan, Poetry, May
  • Georgia Clay Blood, Beatrice Winifred Iker, Fantasy Magazine 80
  • Herbaceous Citadel, Avra Margariti, The Fairy Tale Magazine, January 4
  • How to Skin Your Wolf, G. E. Woods, Strange Horizons, December 19
  • Igbo Landing II, Akua Lezli Hope, Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
  • Interdimensional Border Town, Lauren Scharhag, Unlikely Stories, August
  • Living in Rubble, Gerri Leen, Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • Machine (r)Evolution, Colleen Anderson, Radon Journal 2
  • The Machines Had Accepted Me For So Long, Angel Leal, Radon Journal 2
  • Matches, Rebecca Buchanan, Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
  • Mouth of Mirrors, Maxwell I. Gold, Seize the Press, June 14
  • My Great-Grandmother’s House, Madalena Daleziou, The Deadlands 11
  • Queen of Cups, Crystal Sidell, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December
  • The River God Dreams of Death By Water, Ryu Ando, Abyss & Apex 84
  • The Second Funeral, Kurt Newton, Synkroniciti 4:1
  • Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke), Gerri Leen, Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • The Thing About Stars, Avra Magariti, The Saint of Witches (Weasel Press)
  • Who Came from the Woods, Lev Mirov, Strange Horizons, January 3

2023 Rhysling Award Longlists

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has posted the Rhysling Award Long Lists of poems published in 2022. Juries for the long and short categories will now take these lists and narrow them down to 50 for the short category and 25 for the long category. The selected poems will appear in the 2022 Rhysling Anthology and will be on the ballot for SFPA members to vote on.

The jury will have their selections made no later than April 30. The Anthology will be sent shortly after that date, and voting will begin July 1.

SHORT POEMS (105 nominated poems)

  • After the Quest is Over • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 46
  • Air Born • Brian U. Garrison • Corvid Queen, November 18
  • Angels • Frances Skene • Polar Starlight 6
  • Anima • Thomas Zimmerman • Pages Literary Journal, November 9
  • Animal House Speech • Dave Chandler • Failed Haiku 83
  • Anodized Titanium • Mary Soon Lee • Eye to the Telescope 44
  • Aswang Shaman Communing with Diwata for the First Time • Vince Gotera • Eye to the Telescope 46
  • Australopithecus • Jessica Lucci • How To Steal A Purse, April
  • bathroom chatter • Matteo L. Cerilli • Augur 5.2
  • Beneath Everything The Future Still Exists • Maggie Chirdo • Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds, ed. Katrina Archer (Ganache Media)
  • The Best Ambassadors • Adele Gardner • Felis Futura: An Anthology of Future Cats, ed. CB Droege (Manawaker Studio)
  • Big Brother, Little Brother, and the Sea • Geneve Flynn • Space & Time Magazine 142
  • Biophilia • Sarah Grey • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive
  • Bitch Moon • Sarah Grey • Nightmare Magazine 118
  • Bla Jungfrun • Deborah L. Davitt • Strange Horizons, September 26
  • Black Pastoral: On Mars • Ariana Benson • Paranoid Tree 17
  • Blond Date in a Laundromat • Mary Turzillo • Best of 22 (Ohio Poetry Association)
  • Bone November • Sandra Kasturi • The New Quarterly 164
  • Cassandra as Climate Scientist • Jeannine Hall Gailey • California Quarterly 48:4
  • The Closest Traitor • Richard Magahiz • Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 33:2
  • A Creation Myth • John C. Mannone • Songs of Eretz, Spring
  • Cursed • Lee Murray • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
  • Dark Neighborhood • Cindy O’Quinn • Chiral Mad 5
  • Dead in Orange Red • Jamal Hodge • Monthly Musings, May 9
  • Derelict Dreams • Bruce Boston • Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga • Stephanie M. Wytovich • Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, ed. Lindy Ryan (Black Spot Books)
  • Domestic Tranquility • Brian U. Garrison • Radon Journal 2
  • Doppelganger • James Arthur Anderson • The Horror Zine, Fall
  • Draft • Lavina Blossom • Riddled with Arrows 5.4
  • The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End • Pedro Iniguez • Star*Line 45.3
  • Equus Aloft • Sterling Warner • Otoliths, February
  • Exulansis • Silvatiicus Riddle • Liquid Imagination 51
  • Fall Thunder • Michael Lee Johnson • Aphelion 278
  • Field Notes from the Anthropocene • Priya Chand • Nightmare Magazine 116
  • First Contact • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 44
  • Fracking-lution • Linda D. Addison • Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
  • The Gargoyle • Amelia Gorman • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
  • Gosh, It’s Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet • Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan • Strange Horizons, November 21
  • Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon • Jennifer Crow • Star*Line 45.1
  • Helianthus • Eva Papasoulioti • Solarpunk Magazine 5
  • Hip Gnomes • P S Cottier • AntipodeanSF 291
  • Hockey Night in Canis Major • Gretchen Tessmer • Kaleidotrope, January
  • Home from the Wizard Wars • Lyri Ahnam • Silver Blade 54
  • The Honorable Iris C. Thaumantos, Presiding • Marsheila Rockwell • Musings of the Muses, eds. Heather & S. D. Vassallo (Brigids Gate Press)
  • How to Build an Altar • Angela Acosta • Halloween SFPA Reading
  • If I Were Human • Marie Vibbert • Star*Line 45.2
  • In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White • Terese Mason Pierre • Uncanny 46
  • In water • Soonest Nathaniel • Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2022 Award Finalists
  • Intergalactic Baba Yaga • Sandra Lindow • Dreams and Nightmares 122
  • It’s Not Utopian If There Are No Fat People • Jordan Hirsch • Utopia Science Fiction, December
  • Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea • Mary Soon Lee • Uncanny Magazine 45
  • A Lacing of Lavendar • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase IX
  • Laws of Exponents • John Reinhart • NewMyths.com 59
  • Leda Goes To The Doctor • Pankaj Khemka • Carmina Magazine, September
  • Letting Flowers Go • Alexander Etheridge • Liquid Imagination 52
  • Lines to a Martian • Alfonsina Storni • Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December
  • The Long Night • Ryfkah • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • Medea leaves behind a letter • FJ Doucet • Star*Line 45.1
  • Medusa • Akua Lezli Hope • The New Verse News, November 18
  • Medusa Bringing Her Children Back Home • Salt • Patreon
  • MetaGender Machine • Linda D. Addison • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
  • Mind Compression • Madhur Anand • Parasitic Oscillations (Random House)
  • Monitors • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (with Kendall Evans) • Star*Line 45.1
  • Mother Wicked • Dyani Sabin • Strange Horizons, February 28
  • Near the end, you mother tells you she’s been seeing someone • Shannon Connor Winward • SFPA Poetry Contest
  • Necklace • Carolyn Clink • Frost Zone Zine 6
  • New Planet • Kathy Bailey • Dreams and Nightmares 122
  • Od’s Bodkin • Colleen Anderson • Space & Time Magazine 142
  • Old Soldier, New Love • Vince Gotera • Eye To The Telescope 45
  • On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland • Nicole J. LeBoeuf • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
  • The Optics of Space Travel • Angela Acosta • Eye to the Telescope 43
  • Petrichor • Eva Papasoulioti • Utopia Science Fiction, April/May
  • Pittsburgh Temporal Transfer Station • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 45.2
  • Please Hold • Anna Remennik • NewMyths.com 58
  • Pluto is Not a Planet • Jamal Hodge • SavagePlanets 2:3
  • Pumpkin Ash and Cypress Knees • Katherine Quevedo • Boudin: It Came from the Swamp
  • Raft of the Medusa • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 53
  • Reasons Why You Can’t Go Out to Play Alone • Victoria Nations • HWA Poetry Showcase IX
  • Regarding the Memory of Earth • Angela Acosta • Radon Journal 1
  • Robert Walton’s Penultimate Entry • Michael Hodges • Eye to the Telescope 47
  • Sabbatical Somewhere Warm • Elizabeth McClellan • Star*Line 45.4
  • Sector 431B • Jamal Hodge • SavagePlanets 2:3
  • Shipwrecked • Gretchen Tessmer • The Deadlands 12
  • Skies over Carson Sink • Joshua Gage • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 1
  • A Spell for Winning Your Personal Injury Lawsuit • Marsheila Rockwell • Dreams and Nightmares 120
  • Starfall • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Spectral Realms 16
  • Status Transcript • Lee Murray • A Woman Unbecoming, eds. Rachel A. Brune & Carol Gyzander (Crone Girls Press)
  • Strange Progeny • Bruce Boston • Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
  • Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana • Jay Sturner • Not One of Us 69
  • Tamales on Mars • Angela Acosta • The Sprawl Mag, October
  • Tasted Like Pork • Pankaj Khemka • Ghostlight, Fall
  • Terrible Truths • Linda D. Addison • Daughter of Sarpedon: A Tempered Tales Collection, eds. Heather & S. D. Vassallo (Brigids Gate Press)
  • Time Skip • Alyza Taguilaso • The Deadlands 16
  • Transformation Sequence • Stewart C Baker • JOURN-E, September
  • The Veil • Anna Cates • Otoliths, February
  • Villagers • Tim Jones • a fine line, Autumn
  • Virgin Mary Meteorology • Patricia Gomes • Muddy River Review, Fall/Winter
  • Warming • Maria Zoccola • Nightmare Magazine 117
  • The Watcher on the Wall • Rebecca Bratten-Weiss • Reckoning 6
  • We Don’t Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End • Jordan Hirsch • The Future Fire 62
  • Werewolves in Space • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • What Electrons Read • Mary Soon Lee • Simultaneous Times 31
  • What the Old Woman Knows • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Listen to Her UNF, March 23
  • What Wolves Read • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 54
  • While Traveling Through Deep Space Aboard a Generation Ship • Terrie Leigh Relf • The Drabbun Anthology, eds. Francis W. Alexander & t. santitoro (Hiraeth Publishing)

LONG POEMS (69 nominated poems)

  • Ariadne Threads the Labyrinth • Adele Gardner • Dreams and Nightmares 120
  • Barn Cats • Adele Gardner • NewMyths.com 60
  • Beautiful • L. Marie Wood • Under Her Skin, eds. Lindy Ryan & Toni Miller (Black Spot Books)
  • The Birds Singing in the Rocks • Tristan Beiter • Strange Horizons, October 31
  • The Bone Tree • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
  • CONELRAD 1960 / COVID 2020 • T. D. Walker • Fireside Fiction, June
  • Corvidae • Sarah Cannavo • Liquid Imagination 50
  • Crossing Over • Frank Coffman • Liquid Imagination 52
  • Crow Daughter • Gabriela Avelino • Kaleidotrope, Summer
  • Dark Matter Resume • Lorraine Schein • A Coup of Owls 8
  • The Darkness • David E. Cowen • The Hand That Wounds (Weasel Press)
  • The Dead Palestinian Father • Rasha Abdulhadi • Anathema: Spec from the Margins 15
  • Debris • Deborah L. Davitt • The Avenue, May 18
  • Drowning in This Sunken City • Deborah L. Davitt • Strange Horizons, July 3
  • Eidolon Tetratych • Frank Coffman • Spectral Realms 16
  • EMDR • Marsheila Rockwell • Unnerving Magazine 17
  • ex-lovers & other ghosts • Herb Kauderer • Cold & Crisp, eds. Rachael Crawford, Shannon Kauderer, Andy Lee, & Lizette Strait (518 Publishing)
  • field notes from an investigation into the self • Max Pasakorn • Strange Horizons, August 29
  • The First 100 Days • John Reinhart • Star*Line 45.3
  • A Fit Place to Live • David E. Cowen • The Hand That Wounds (Weasel Press)
  • For You Were Strangers in Egypt • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Nightmare Magazine 122
  • From the Ninth Brane • John Mannone • Altered Reality Magazine, February
  • From “Poem without Beginning or End” • Vivek Narayanan • Poetry, May
  • The Frosty Voyage • Adele Gardner • Eye to the Telescope 46
  • Georgia Clay Blood • Beatrice Winifred Iker • Fantasy Magazine 80
  • Ghosting Our Steps • Luke Kernan • Anthropology and Humanism 47:2
  • Halloween Hearts (for Ray Bradbury) • Adele Gardner • Halloween Hearts (Jackanapes Press)
  • Herbaceous Citadel • Avra Margariti • The Fairy Tale Magazine, January 4
  • How to Skin Your Wolf • G. E. Woods • Strange Horizons, December 19
  • I am the Dragon • Elizabeth Fletcher • Spaceports & Spidersilk, October
  • If Houses Could Talk • Lori Lopez • The Sirens Call 59
  • Igbo Landing II • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
  • In the Mirror’s Gap • Jeff Young • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • Interdimensional Border Town • Lauren Scharhag • Unlikely Stories, August
  • Like Thunder in My Head • Gerri Leen • The Fairy Tale Magazine, April
  • Lines of Non-Extension • Janis Anne Rader • Consilience, Autumn
  • Living in Rubble • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • Locks • Colleen Anderson • Abyss & Apex 84
  • Machine (r)Evolution • Colleen Anderson • Radon Journal 2
  • The Machines Had Accepted Me For So Long • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 2
  • Matches • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
  • A Message From Her Feline Self, Unborn, to Her Cousin, Whose Ancestors Were Once Wolves • Jessica Cho • Fireside Magazine, March
  • Mouth of Mirrors • Maxwell I. Gold • Seize the Press, June 14
  • My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors • Alicia Hilton • Ornithologiae, ed. Mark Beech (Egaeus Press)
  • My Great-Grandmother’s House • Madalena Daleziou • The Deadlands 11
  • On Meeting Kari Solmundarson of Burnt Njal on a Ghost Ship • Amelia Gorman • Nonbinary Review 27
  • One Last Perfect Night • Jill Trade & Joshua St. Claire • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 1
  • Persephone in January: A Chant Royal • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • Carmina Magazine, March
  • Photographing Sirens • F. J. Bergmann • SFPA Poetry Contest
  • The Possession • Anna Cates • Otoliths, June
  • Queen of Cups • Crystal Sidell • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December
  • Questing Done Right: The Goblin Market • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
  • Resilience • Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado • Reckoning 6
  • The River God Dreams of Death By Water • Ryu Ando • Abyss & Apex 84
  • A Rounded Spell • Alessandro Manzetti • Kubrick Rhapsody (Independent Legions Publishing)
  • Seasonal Meat • Jamal Hodge • Chiral Mad 5
  • The Second Funeral • Kurt Newton • Synkroniciti 4:1
  • Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke) • Gerri Leen • Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • Team Enrollment • Herb Kauderer • Scifaikuest, November
  • The Thing About Stars • Avra Magariti • The Saint of Witches (Weasel Press)
  • Thirteen Ways to Know You Are a Witch • John C. Mannone • Star*Line 45.4
  • A Tribute to the Ferryman • Ngo Binh Anh Khoa • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice
  • tzedek: the wild hunt • Elisheva Fox • Strange Horizons, November 7
  • Uncle Louie’s Farm • Skip Leeds • Pages Literary Journal, August 18
  • Virginia Dare Brooks • Francis Wesley Alexander • The Martian Wave III:1
  • The Whippoorwill • Lori Lopez • Spectral Realms 16
  • Who Came from the Woods • Lev Mirov • Strange Horizons, January 3
  • Wings • Jordan Hirsch • The Fairy Tale Magazine, February
  • Zombie Pirate Ghost • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 54

SFPA Issues New Rhysling Award Guidelines

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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has implemented new guidelines for the organization’s best-known prize, the Rhysling Award.

The most significant changes are the addition of a jury to the process, and a rule to discourage entrants from also competing for two other SFPA prizes with the same poem.

JURY. SFPA members will continue to collectively create a list of nominees. The new Rhysling jury will select the finalists from their recommendations. SFPA members will still vote on the winners.

RANGE. The Rhysling Award will still be given in short and long categories, with the dividing point at 50 lines. However, there are now lower and upper limits to prevent “double dipping” into SFPA’s other awards, the Dwarf Stars and Elgin Award. Poems 10 lines and under are eligible only for Dwarf Stars. Poems 300 lines and over are eligible only for the Elgin.

The changes followed two rounds of surveying members and have been approved by SFPA’s executives.