The 2018 Dwarf Stars Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and
Horror Short Poetry of 2017
Editor: Deborah P Kolodji
Cover Art: Ritual by Steven Vincent Johnson
acrylic on board© 1978
svjart.orionworks.com
Layout: F. J. Bergmann
Publisher: Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
2018 Award Winners
Winner:
The Green, Kath Abela Wilson, Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, eds. Diane Frank, Lois P. Jones, Ami Kaye, Rustin Larson, Gloria Mindock & Melissa Studdard (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)
2nd Place:
If She Knew She Was a Ghost, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Polu Texni, 5/22/17
3rd Place (tie):
Lo Shu’s Magic Square, Deborah L. Davitt, Snakeskin 237
Lace at the Throat, Holly Lyn Walrath, 2017 SFPA poetry contest, 3rd place
 |
 |
Kath Abela Wilson travels the world with her mathematician and flute-player husband Rick Wilson. They live essentially on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California. She has always had a taste for the surreal in art and literature and has published in many journals including Astropoetica, Atlas Poetica, Illumen, Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, Pirene's Fountain, and Scryptic. Hosting poetry workshops and salons, she leads the performance group Poets on Site. Her weekly Poetry Corner for CololadoBoulevard.net features environmental and fantastic themes. Her books include Owl Still Asking, Tanka for Troubled Times; Driftwood Monster, Haiku for Troubled Times; Locofo Chaps (Moria Press). She has won many haiku and tanka awards. |
 |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel edited Star*line, the journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, in the late ’90s, and later served as SFPA President. He won the Rhysling award (long poem) in 2006 for “The Tin Men,” a collaboration with Kendall Evans. He was voted SFPA Grand Master in 2017. His poetry has been published in scores of venues, including Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and Night Cry. His 29th book, the spec-po collection Metastable Systems, is nominated for the Elgin award. He edits and publishes Dreams and Nightmares, in its 32nd year. David hates cold, but this is not why he lives in the Deep South. @DavidKM. Blog: dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com |
|
 |
Deborah L. Davitt was raised in Nevada, but currently lives in Houston, Texas with her husband and son. Her poetry has received Rhysling, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart nominations; her short fiction has earned a finalist showing for the Jim Baen Adventure Fantasy Award (2018) and has appeared in InterGalactic Medicine Show, Compelling Science Fiction, and Galaxy’s Edge. For more about her work, including her Edda-Earth novels, please see www.edda-earth.com. | |
 |
Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer of poetry and short fiction. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Liminality, Eye to the Telescope, and elsewhere. She is a freelance editor and volunteer with Writespace literary center in Houston, Texas. Find her on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath or at hlwalrath.com. |
(62 poems)
- “first time away,” Billy Antonio, Prune Juice 21
- “ICU,” Billy Antonio, Prune Juice 21
- “red planet,” Sam Bateman, tinywords 17.2 Writing Prompt Winner, September 2017
- Betsy Ross, F. J. Bergmann, Eye to the Telescope 24
- “only hours out,” F. J. Bergmann, SpecPo blog 11/3/17
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, Robert Borski, Asimov’s SF, March/April 2017
- Alien Dowry, Robert Borski, Star*Line 40.4
- Full Moon Forecast, Bruce Boston, Grievous Angel, December 2017
- Vampire Fortuneteller, Bruce Boston, Grievous Angel, June 2017
- “old red barn,” Mark E. Brager, Modern Haiku 48.3
- “absolute zero,” Susan Burch, Grievous Angel, November 2017
- “alien,” Susan Burch, Star*Line 40.4
- “zombie chic,” Helen Buckingham, brass bell: a haiku journal, 10/1/17
- “what if the ferryman …,” Helen Buckingham, Under the Basho, 2017
- “footprint in red dust,” Frank Coffman, Haikuniverse 6/21/17
- The Colors of Time, Deborah L. Davitt, The Tanka Journal 5
- Chiasmus, Deborah L. Davitt, Scifaikuest, November 2017
- Lo Shu’s Magic Square, Deborah L. Davitt, Snakeskin 237
- “orbiting Neptune,” Joshua Gage, Scifaikuest, February 2017
- “nightcap,” Joshua Gage, Scifaikuest, February 2017
- “abandoned colony roof,” Joshua Gage, Scifaikuest print, August 2017
- “time travel dining,” LeRoy Gorman,Star*Line 40.4
- “the odds,” LeRoy Gorman, Otata 19
- “ger-,“ C. R. Harper, Prune Juice 21
- “down to earth,” C. R. Harper, Star*Line 40.4
- Time Travel No. 7, Soren James, Grievous Angel, June 2017
- keeping company, Herb Kauderer, Altered Reality, 8/7/17
- Space Efficient, Herb Kauderer, Altered Reality, 7/10/17
- maybe there are, M. X. Kelly, Star*Line 40.1
- “instead of a halo,” Julie Bloss Kelsey, Star*Line 40.4
- “loose ends …,” Deborah P Kolodji, Haiku Canada Review, Autumn 2017
- If She Knew She Was a Ghost, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Polu Texni, 5/22/17
- “Monday morning,” Gregory Longenecker, Prune Juice 21
- “year end,” paul m., Modern Haiku holiday greeting, 2017
- If Only a Werewolf, Minadora Macheret, Bramble & Thorn anthology (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
- Ghoul Cloud, John C. Mannone, SFPA Halloween Podcast, 2017
- Marbles, John C. Mannone, Altered Reality, September 2017
- “doomsday clock,” dl mattila, tinywords 17.1, 4/10/17
- For in that Sleep …, Lauren McBride, Illumen, Summer 2017
- “to save space,” Lauren McBride, Grievous Angel, 12/10/17
- “Saturn’s rings,” Marietta McGregor, Haikuniverse, 7/14/17
- “everything,” Joan Prefontaine, tinywords 17.1, 4/18/17
- Beauty, Sleeping, Marsheila Rockwell, Starward Tales II: Another Anthology of Speculative Legends, ed. C. B. Droege (Manawaker Studio, 2017)
- “silent jump,” Tom Sacramona, Scifaikuest, May 2017
- The Little Laser Girl, Lorraine Schein, concīs, Winter 2017
- “after last year,” Ann K. Schwader, Star*Line 40.3
- Carbon Footprint, Ann K. Schwader, Star*Line 40.4
- “lunar graveyard,” William Shaw, Scifaikuest, May 2017
- “graveyard,” Tiffany Shaw-Diaz, Haikuniverse, 10/31/17
- “bloody spindle,” Christina Sng, Star*Line 40.1
- “ruby sky,” Christina Sng, Scifaikuest, March 2017
- “seconds before,” Christina Sng, Grievous Angel, April 2017
- “multiverse theory …,” Christina Sng, Sonic Boom 9
- “depleted plutonium,” Alan Summers, Honorable Mention, 2nd World Haiku Association Haiku Contest, 2017 (Japan)
- “painting fences,” Alan Summers, brass bell: a haiku journal, May 2017
- If it will help you think of me as Sappho, Sonya Taaffe, Blossomry 1
- “time snake,” N. E. Taylor, Prune Juice 21
- “fresh back from weeks in space,” Lisa Timpf, Scifaikuest print, August 2017
- Lace at the Throat, Holly Walrath, 2017 SFPA poetry contest, 3rd place
- The Green, Kath Abela Wilson, Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, eds. Diane Frank, Lois P. Jones, Ami Kaye, Rustin Larson, Gloria Mindock & Melissa Studdard (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)
- Separation Anxiety, Shannon Connor Winward, Eye to the Telescope 23
- “scent of blackened,” Greer Woodward, Star*Line 40.1
| 2 | Altered Reality | |
| 1 | Asimov’s Science Fiction | |
| 1 | Blossomry | |
| 1 | Bramble & Thorn anthology (Porkbelly Press, 2017) | |
| 2 | brass bell: a haiku journal | |
| 1 | Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, eds. Diane Frank, Lois P. Jones, Ami Kaye, Rustin Larson, Gloria Mindock & Melissa Studdard (Glass Lyre Press, 2017) | |
| 1 | concīs | |
| 2 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 6 | Grievous Angel | |
| 1 | Haiku Canada Review | |
| 3 | Haikuniverse | |
| 1 | Illumen | |
| 2 | Modern Haiku | |
| 1 | Otata | |
| 1 | Polu Texni | |
| 5 | Prune Juice | |
| 8 | Scifaikuest | |
| 1 | 2017 SFPA Halloween Podcast | |
| 1 | 2017 SFPA Poetry Contest | |
| 1 | Snakeskin | |
| 1 | Sonic Boom | |
| 1 | SpecPo blog | |
| 10 | Star*Line | |
| 1 | Starward Tales II: Another Anthology of Speculative Legends, ed. C. B. Droege (Manawaker Studio, 2017) | |
| 1 | The Tanka Journal | |
| 3 | tinywords | |
| 1 | Under the Basho | |
| 1 | 2017 World Haiku Association Haiku Contest |
