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November 2019
Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Prize nominations
- “Seal the Veil” by Ashley Dioses (Issue 31)
- “Lost Palace, Lighted Tracks” by Oliver Smith (Issue 32)
- “Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild” by F. J. Bergmann (Issue 32)
- “Earworm Indoctrination” by Kurt Newton (Issue 33)
- “To the Girl Who Drew Mushroom Clouds” by Karen J. Weyant (Issue 33)
- “Beaver's Tail” by Brigit Truex (Issue 34)
November 2019
Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations
- “Blocked” by Robert Borski (42.1)
- “Giants in the Earth” by Deborah L. Davitt (42.1)
- “Self-Portrait as Pretty Monster” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (42.1)
- “Heliobacterium daphnephilium” by Rebecca Buchanan (42.3)
- “The Scarecrow” by Tara Campbell (42.4)
- “The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House” by Kathleen A. Lawrence (42.4)
February 2019
Bram Stoker Award Nominees: Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
- Bruce Boston – Artifacts (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- David E. Cowen – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press)
- Donna Lynch – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti – War (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Sara Tantlinger – The Devil's Dreamland (Strangehouse Books)
January 2019
Stoker Preliminary Ballot
The following SFPA members’ book are on the Preliminary Ballot for HWA’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:
- Boston, Bruce – Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing)
- Clark, G.O. – The Comfort of Screams (Alban Lake Publishing)
- Cowen, David E. – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press)
- Fletcher, Joe – The Hatch (Brooklyn Arts Press)
- Lynch, Donna – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Shepard, Oliver – Thirteen Nocturnes (Ikonograph Press)
- Simon, Marge and Manzetti, Alessandro – War (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Tantlinger, Sara – The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books)
- West, Jacqueline – Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions (Alban Lake Publishing)
- Wren, Twyla – Gwendolyn Witch and Other Macabria (Independently Published)
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