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Speculative Poetry News — 2009

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June 2009

Boston wins Bram Stoker Award

Bruce Boston's The Nightmare Collection (Dark Regions Press, 2008) has received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry from the Horror Writers Association. Details and a list of the winners in all categories can be found at http://sfscope.com/2009/06/2009-bram-stoker-award-winners.html


May 2009

Florida-based SFPA Poets Represent at OASIS Con

SFPA member and Star*Line editor Marge Simon reports that SFPA was well represented at the OASIS SF con in Orlando on Memorial Day weekend, 2009.

"Our panel was 'Poetry Answers Art,'" Marge says. "We represent the SFPA poets of Florida."

Check out two photos below from the con and look for more information in the next issue of Star*Line.

Oasis SF Con Poetry Panel 2009
Oasis SF Con Poetry Panel 2009

Top photo, left to right: Chris Ambrose (M), Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, Elissa Malcohn, Mal Deeley.
Second photo, left to right: Chris Ambrose (M), Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, Elissa Malcohn, John Tumlin (standing), Mal Deeley.
Photos by Arlene Ambrose.



SFPA Amazon Bookstore Established

Karen A. Romanko, SFPA member and former webmaster, has used Amazon.com tools to create an online SFPA Amazon.com Bookstore.

This wonderful new resource provides another way for SFPA members to find and purchase science fiction and speculative poetry. It will also serve as a source of revenue for the association, as a small percentage of each book purchased will be rebated to SFPA.

Karen has already identified and added a number of speculative poetry anthologies to the bookstore page. If you are a member and have a book available on Amazon.com that was published in the last two years, please e-mail the webmaster, and we will add your title as soon as possible!

Many thanks to Karen for creating this new offering for SFPA.

Eaton Science Fiction Conference Features SFPA Reading

The second SFPA poetry reading at the Eaton Science Fiction Conference was held on Saturday, May 2, 2009. The reading was moderated by SFPA president Deborah P Kolodji. SFPA Treasurer Samantha Henderson was also on hand, and she gave a short overview of the SFPA and how to join. There were a dozen readers, which made for an hour and a half of amazing poetry readings — including a translation of a speculative poem from the Polish by Frank L. Vigola (the translation team of Gwido Zlatkes and Ann Frenkel). Another highlight was the reading by Ching-In Chen, who won the Eaton Conference Student Short Story Contest.

Eaton Science Fiction Conference Poetry Reading 2009

2009 Eaton Conference SFPA Poetry Reading Participants:
(back) Kendall Evans, Samantha Henderson, W. Gregory Stewart, Deborah P Kolodji, Denise Dumars
(front) Karen A. Romanko, Sheila Finch, Gwido Zlatkes, Howard Hendrix
(not shown) Ann Frenkel, Sherri Benoun, Alyssa Tobar, Ching-In Chen

March 2009

SFPA Members Boston and Crawford on 2008 Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot

Bruce Boston's The Nightmare Collection (Dark Regions) and Gary William Crawford's The Phantom World (Sam's Dot Publishing) are finalists for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. The Bram Stoker Awards are presented yearly by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). You can find the complete final ballot at www.sfwa.org/news/2009/08stokerballot.htm.

January 2009

2008 Dwarf Stars Contest Winners Announced

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the recipient of the 2008 Dwarf Stars Award, which is given to the best short speculative poem of 10 lines or less published in the previous year, as voted upon by its membership.

The 2008 Dwarf Stars winner is "Place Mat by Moebius" by Greg Beatty, originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction.

Greg Beatty lives with his wife in Bellingham, Wash., where he tries unsuccessfully to stay dry. He writes everything from children's books to essays about his cooking debacles. Greg recently published his first poetry chapbook, Phrases of the Moon. It is available from Spec House of Poetry.

Second place went to Sonya Taaffe for her poem "Muse," originally published in Strange Horizons.

Taaffe has a confirmed addiction to myth, folklore and dead languages. Her short fiction and poetry can be found collected in Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books). She holds master's degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale. Her livejournal is Myth Happens.

Westminister, Colo.-based poet Ann K. Schwader won third prize for her haibun, "Dancing to Van Gogh," which first appeared in Mythic Delirium.

A haibun is a poetry form that combines short prose with haiku. Schwader's poetry has received several honorable mentions in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and she is an active member of SFWA, HWA and SFPA. Her author's Web site is www.geocities.com/HPL4ever/, and her blog is Yaddith Times.

Copies of the 2008 Dwarf Stars Anthology are still available from the SFPA for $5.00 plus shipping. Please visit our Dwarf Stars page for more information. Check out the complete anthology contents or look back to 2007.

Guidelines

We welcome speculative poetry news from SFPA members. Appropriate items for this page include member awards and honors, news of regional member meetings and readings, media recognition of speculative poetry, etc. Photos are welcome, but choose one photo which best represents your news. If you send more than one photo, the website staff will select the photo(s) to accompany your story. Please do not send news of personal poetry sales or market updates, as these will be ignored. Inclusion of items on this page is at the sole discretion of the website staff.
 
With these guidelines in mind, please send your speculative poetry news to sfpaweb@sfpoetry.com, subject line "Speculative Poetry News."


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