SFPA members only may vote for 1st, 2nd and 3rd at http://bit.ly/DwarfStar2016
Voting deadline August 31, 2016
The
2016 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and
Horror Short Poetry of 2015
Editors: Jeannine Hall Gailey & Lesley Wheeler
Cover Art: Tooth Fairy by Michaela Eaves
~12" × 16" watercolor & gouache © 2014
www.michaelaeaves.com
Layout: F.J. Bergmann
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association
2016 Award Winners
Winner:
We Begin This Way • Stacey Balkun • Gingerbread House 16
2nd Place (3-way tie):
“at the barre” • Julie Bloss Kelsey • Rattle 51
The Doorman • F.J. Bergmann • Grievous Angel, May 2015
Weathering • Sandi Leibowitz • Silver Blade 25
3rd Place:
Alice was chasing white rabbits out of a black hole • John C. Mannone • Abbreviate Journal, July/August 2015
66 members voted.
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Stacey Balkun is the author of Jackalope-Girl Learns to Speak (dancing girl 2016) & Lost City Museum (ELJ 2016). A Finalist for the 2016 Event Horizon Science Poetry Competition as well as the Center for Women Writer's 2016 Rita Dove Award, her work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, Muzzle, Bayou, and others. A 2015 Hambidge Fellow, Stacey served as Artist-in-Residence at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2013. She holds an MFA from Fresno State and teaches poetry online at The Poetry Barn. Visit her at www.staceybalkun.com |
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Julie Bloss Kelsey enjoys writing short form poetry, mainly scifaiku, haiku, and tanka. Her science fiction poetry has appeared in Star*Line, microcosms, Eye to the Telescope, Scifaikuest, and Rattle, among others. In 2011, her poem “Comet” won the Dwarf Stars Award. She is currently working on her first poetry collection, a failed alien love story told through scifaiku. | |
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F.J. Bergmann edits poetry for Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. Her horribly out-of-date website is fibitz.com | |
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John C. Mannone has over 550 works published in venues such as New England Journal of Medicine, Inscape Literary Journal, Windhover, 2016 Texas Poetry Calendar, Baltimore Review, Pedestal, Event Horizon Magazine and Syzygy Journal. He’s been awarded a 2016 Weymouth writing residency and has two literary poetry collections: Apocalypse (Alban Lake Publishing, 2015) and one on disability, Disabled Monsters (The Linnet’s Wings Press, 2015) to be featured in Nashville’s 2016 Southern Festival of Books. He edits poetry for Silver Blade and Abyss & Apex and is a college professor of physics in east Tennessee. Visit jcmannone.wordpress.com |
- Accident-Prone • Susan Rooke • inkscrawl 8
- Alice was chasing white rabbits out of a black hole • John C. Mannone • Abbreviate Journal, July/August 2015
- Anomaly • F.J. Bergmann • 2015 SFPA poetry contest
- “at the barre” • Julie Bloss Kelsey • Rattle 51
- “awake after surgery” • Sandra Lindow • Scifaikuest print, February 2015
- “back on earth” • Robert Piotrowski • Scifaikuest print, February 2015
- Bees Fell Asleep • Grzegorz Wróblewski, translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda • The Los Angeles Review 18
- Black Hull, Greenheart • Susan Grimm • Cherry Tree 1
- Boston to Providence • Carrie Etter • Molly Bloom 7
- Classified II • Robert Borski • Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2015
- “Comicon” • Susan Burch • Grievous Angel, February 2015
- Creation Myth (1981) • Iliana Rocha • Karankawa (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)
- “crumbling castle” • Greer Woodward • Star*Line 38:1
- “daybreak” • Helen Buckingham • Noon 10
- The Donnellys • Martin Dyar • Poetry, September 2015 (permission refused)
- The Doorman • F.J. Bergmann • Grievous Angel, May 2015
- Driving 80 MPH at Night • William Cullen, Jr. • Star*Line 38:2
- “the economy of a solar system …” • Ralf Bröker • Frogpond 38:2
- A Field • Amelia Martens • Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review 41, Winter 2015, and The Spoons in the Grass are There to Dig a Moat (Sarabande Books, 2016).
- Gretel • Robert Borski • Ghostlight, The Magazine of Terror, Summer 2015
- “hell-bent” • Susan Burch • Grievous Angel, February 2015
- How We Sing • Katharine Coles • Crazyhorse, Spring 2015
- jellyfish • Beth Langford • inkscrawl 8
- “late winter” • Kristen Deming • Frogpond 38:1
- The Man with Red Eyes • Christina Sng • Scifaikuest 50, print
- “methane rain” • Joshua Gage • Scifaikuest 50, print
- “night sky” • Susan Antolin • Modern Haiku 46:2
- Notes for Next Week’s Sermon • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 38:1
- November rain • LeRoy Gorman • Scifaikuest online, August 2015
- Placebo Effect • Roberta Beary • Modern Haiku 46:2
- Scissors Series • Arielle Greenberg • Crazyhorse, Spring 2015
- “shapeshifter” • John Reinhart • Scifaikuest 50, print
- “she said” • dl mattila • Frogpond 38:1
- “steam rises” • David McKee • Modern Haiku 46:2
- “tail in Winnipeg” • Sandra Lindow • Tales of the Talisman X:3
- “they claimed our star” • C.R. Harper • Star*Line 38:2
- Thor and Saturn’s Tête-á-tête • Maceo J. Whitaker • Poetry, October 2015
- “time portal wedding” • LeRoy Gorman • Star*Line 38:3
- “upturned faces” • Deborah P. Kolodji • Star*Line 38:2
- “warm the blur …” • Michelle Tennison • Frogpond 38:2
- We Begin This Way • Stacey Balkun • Gingerbread House 16
- Weathering • Sandi Leibowitz • Silver Blade 25
- What Dolls Eat • Karen Bovenmyer • The Were-Traveler, 28 June 2015
- “when hell freezes over” • Deborah P. Kolodji • Star*Line 38:2
- “the window cleaner’s ladder” • Mark Holloway • Bones 6
- Wish • Rebecca Buchanan • Gingerbread House 11
| 1 | Abbreviate Journal | |
| 1 | Asimov’s Science Fiction | |
| 1 | Bones | |
| 1 | Cherry Tree | |
| 2 | Crazyhorse | |
| 4 | Frogpond | |
| 2 | Gingerbread House | |
| 1 | Ghostlight, The Magazine of Terror | |
| 3 | Grievous Angel | |
| 1 | Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review | |
| 2 | inkscrawl | |
| 1 | Karankawa (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) | |
| 1 | The Los Angeles Review | |
| 3 | Modern Haiku | |
| 1 | Molly Bloom | |
| 1 | Noon | |
| 2 | Poetry | |
| 1 | Rattle | |
| 6 | Scifaikuest | |
| 1 | 2015 SFPA Poetry Contest | |
| 1 | Silver Blade | |
| 7 | Star*Line | |
| 1 | Tales of the Talisman | |
| 1 | The Were-Traveler |
