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Boston wins Bram Stoker Award
Florida-based SFPA Poets Represent at OASIS Con
"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.
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
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
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
SFPA Members Boston and Crawford on 2008 Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot
2008 Dwarf Stars Contest Winners Announced
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.
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