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The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology and Award

The 2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Short Poetry of 2008

Editors: Deborah P Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson
Cover Art: Naia
Layout: Jon Stout
Publisher: Gromagon Press for the Science Fiction Poetry Association

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2009 Dwarf Stars Winners

WINNER: "Fireflies" by Geoffrey A. Landis - Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 2008
SECOND PLACE: "the leaf whisperer" by Elizabeth Barrette - Doorways Magazine #5, 2008
THIRD PLACE: "Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff" by Jane Yolen - Asimov's SF, Oct/Nov 2008

Anthology Contents

Dark Flow - Francis W. Alexander - Abyss & Apex, Issue 28, 2008
untitled - "the will-o-the-wisp..." - Francis W. Alexander - Scifaikuest, August 2008, Online
Return of the Zombie Teen Angst - Mike Allen - Asimov's SF, Oct/Nov 2008
untitled - "time machine rust" - Megan Arkenberg - Scifaikuest, Aug 2008, Print
The Ghoul - Megan Arkenberg - Scifaikuest, Nov 2008, Print
the leaf whisperer - Elizabeth Barrette - Doorways Magazine #5, 2008
untitled - "stars against the night..." - Bruce Boston - SARM, 2008
Three Things - Lisa M. Bradley - Talebones, Winter 2008
Godmother - Anna Marie Catoir - Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008
untitled - "I felt your presence" - Margaret Chula - Ribbons, Winter 2008
Special ears - Toi Dericotte - Prairie Schooner, Fall 2008
Evolution - Peg Duthie - SciFi Fan 2, April 2008
untitled - "time lapse" - Margarita Engle - Scifaikuest, August 2008, Online
Songs were washing up - Francesca Forrest - Cabinet des Fees - Scheherzade's Bequest, Issue 6, Sept 2008
Mistress (1) - Todd Fredson - Blackbird 7.2, Fall 2008
untitled - "shot of whiskey" - Joshua Gage - www.spacewesterns.com, 2008
untitled - "stars invisible" - Joshua Gage - Mindflights, November 2008
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow's Song for the Woodsman's Wife - Jeannine Hall Gailey - Poemeleon, Summer 2008
The Lure of an Older Woman - Toni J. Gardner - Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, 6.2, 2008
untitled - "quantum mechanics" - James Gianforti - Star*Line, July/August 31.4, 2008
untitled - "trying to imitate" - Sanford Goldstein - Simply Haiku, Winter 2008
Study/Violet - Leonard Gonatarek - Prick of the Spindle, Vol 2.3, Sept 2008
untitled - "full moon" - John Grey - Scifaikuest, November 2008, Print
untitled - "sailor's ear" - M. Kei - The Sailor's Ear, Bolts of Silk, 1- February 2008
untitled - "the dead rise" - M. Kei - Slow Motion: The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, 2008
untitled - "moonless world" - Patricia Kelly - SciFi Fan 2, April 2008
untitled - "just as I" - Mariko Kitakubo (tr Amelia Fielden) - Cicada Forest, Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008
untitled - "lest we stray" - Mariko Kitakubo (tr Amelia Fielden) - Cicada Forest, Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008
untitled - "in spite of your absence..." - Deborah P Kolodji - SARM, 2008
Fireflies - Geoffrey A. Landis - Asimov's SF, June 2008
untitled - "thin alpine air" - paul m - Acorn, Fall 2008
untitled - "winter plum branches" - paul m - Mariposa #19, Autumn/Winter 2008
Werepenguin - Joanne Merriam - Strange Horizons, 10-March-2008
untitled - "falling stars" - Claudia Coutu Radmore - Eucalypt, Issue 5, 2008
"There, where the universe begins" - Terrie Leigh Relf - Astropoetica 6.2, Spring 2008
untitled - "one foot on Mars" - Karen A. Romanko - Scifaikuest, Feb 2008, print
untitled - "on the footpath" - Linda Papanicolaou - Ribbons, Autumn 2008
untitled - "in the mouth" - Ann K. Schwader - Scifaikuest, November 2008, print
Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah - J.E. Stanley - Scifaikuest, November 2008, print
untitled - "dark moon" - Maria Steyn - Simply Haiku, Spring 2008
untitled - "from outer space" - George Swede - Ribbons, Winter 2008
untitled - "strange voices" - Dietmar Tauchner - Frogpond XXI, Number 1, 2008
Refugee - Paul Kareem Tayyer - Pearl #39, Fall/Winter 2008
untitled - "closer to the moongate" - Linda Jeannette Ward - Hummingbird, September 2008
untitled - "wet sand" - Michael Dylan Welch - Scifaikuest, August 2008, online
In the Beginning or the End - N.C. Whitehead - Scifaikuest, May 2008, print
2062 - Stephen M. Wilson - Star*Line, March/April 2008
The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight - Charles Wright - Fiddlehead, Summer 2008
Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff - Jane Yolen - Asimov's SF, Oct/Nov 2008
untitled - "we all met..." - Lee Clarke Zumpe - Scifaikuest, May 2008 print

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