The 2024 Dwarf Stars Anthology and Award

The 2024 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2023

2023 Dwarf Stars cover


Brittany Hause photoBrittany Hause is a writer and translator of very short speculative poetry. The first SFF piece of Brittany's to ever see publication was a dark scifaiku that debuted in Grievous Angel in 2017. Since then, more of Brittany's scifaiku as well as their genre takes on tanka, sijo, and other length-constrained forms of poetry have appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Scifaikuest, Kaleidotrope, and elsewhere. From 2021 onward, their translations of brief speculative verse by Hispanophone writers have also surfaced in Star*Line and Lothlorien Poetry Journal, among other venues.

Cover Art: Adapted from Les mystères de L'Infini by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, 1844
Layout: F. J. Bergmann
Publisher: Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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2024 Award Winners

Winner:
关于树的无数可能/"the infinite possibilities of trees" • Xiao Xi, translated from the Chinese by Yilin Wang from 《风不止》 (The Ceaseless Wind) • Prism International 61:3

2nd Place:
“All-Kinds-of-Fears” • Amelia Gorman • Dreams and Nightmares 125

3rd Place:
"Nikola Tesla" • F.J. Bergmann • Star*Line 46.2

Honorable Mentions:
"Beyondness" • Lorraine Schein • Penumbric 6:6
[for the always was] • Patrick Sweeney • Five Fleas 8/5
"Souvenir from the Center of the Universe" • Peter Payack • limited edition coin (Zoland Editions)

Yilin Wang photo  

Yilin Wang 王艺霖 (she/they) is a writer, a poet, and Chinese-English translator. Her debut collection of translated poetry and essays on translation, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024), has been described by reviewers as “exceptional” (Quill & Quire, starred review), “stunning” (Book Riot), a “gift” and “labor of love” (The Miramichi Reader), and “careful work and keen commentary” (Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation). Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, The Tyee, Words Without Borders, Samovar, and elsewhere. She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of Canada’s National Magazine Award, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for an Aurora Award. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop. www.yilinwang.com.

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Xiao Xi 小西 is a poet based in Qingdao in Shandong, China. Her poems have appeared in dozens of Chinese literary journals such as People’s Literature, Poetry Journal, October, and elsewhere, as well as been featured in numerous anthologies. She is the author of two poetry books in Chinese, titled Blue Salt 《蓝色的盐》and The Wind Would Not Cease 《风不止》 respectively. Her work has won various awards in China, including the Red Sorghum Poetry Prize.

Amelia Gorman photo   Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Her first chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is available from The Quarter Press.
FJ Bergmann photo   F.J. Bergmann is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, past editor of Star*Line, managing editor of MadHat Press, poetry editor for Weird House Press, 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.

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Anthology Table of Contents
(120 poems)


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