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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 3h

It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26!

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An advertisement for the SFPA Halloween poetry series that reads "It's Poetry Season" with the word "spooky" crossed out.

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing the WINNERS of the 2025 SFPA Poetry Contest!

Judge @webbish6.bsky.social selected the winning pieces and honorable mentions from a pool of more than 331 anonymized entries.

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the lists of honorable mentions in each length category AND read all the poems in full: sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co....

Thank you to everyone who entered! WE APPRECIATE YOU ✨✨✨

2025 SFPA Poetry Contest – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

In the Dwarf Category:

- 1st Place: Down in the Valley by Kate Boyes
- 2nd Place: Untitled by F.J. Bergmann
- 3rd Place: In Praise of Afro-Cosmicism by Joy Donnell

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

In the Short Category:

- 1st Place: Feeding Their Daughters by Helen Patrice
- 2nd Place: Making Vinegar in Struggletown by M.C Childs
- 3rd Place: The Light Phenomena by Vinita Agrawal

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

In the Long Category:

- 1st Place: irish weather by Quinn Young
- 2nd Place: From Out the Jaded Sky by Alan Ira Gordon
- 3rd Place: terraforming by Clarabelle Miray Fields

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing the WINNERS of the 2025 SFPA Poetry Contest!

Judge @webbish6.bsky.social selected the winning pieces and honorable mentions from a pool of more than 331 anonymized entries.

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 2d

Always thrilled to work with @penumbricmag.bsky.social
👻 ✉️ 📬📦 Come read my eerie poem "On October 31st" - on how you get your mail delivered in the afterlife.
Many SFPA poets are in this issue!
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 2d

And more thank yous! @christinasng.bsky.social, Gerri Leen, @dianedooley.bsky.social, Sonali Roy, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Gordon Linzner, Warren Muzak, @ghostlyverse.bsky.social, Parker McIntosh ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Table of contents for October's issue of Penumbric, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ToC.html

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 6d

#HorrorCommunity
👻 Back from the dead!🪦
🐦‍⬛ 🖤 ✒️ Sandy revived Black Poppy Review & posted my dark poetry!
@hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social @alpbeck.com
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My Mother's Ghost Started Dancing / Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

A dark poetry and flash fiction blog.

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 6d

🎃 23 days to Hallowe'en 🎃
🖤 🐈‍⬛ 📖 Time to stock up on SFF/ horror poetry books!
Add yours!

@swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @sffreview.bsky.social @behindthepages.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @thehorrorzine.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 7d

📕 ✒️ "Vampire Verses" - out soon from @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social - has also shape-shifted into my Hallowe'en card. 🧛 🎃

📬 🦇 Coming soon to your mailbox! 🦇

@sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @hwany.org @hdwp.com @dmcwriter.bsky.social @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @alpbeck.com

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 7d

Poets! I'm re-running for @sfpoetry.bsky.social Treasurer, and I'd love your vote!

Once again, I'm running unopposed (other than the Write-in option... or Wrong-in, amirite??), but I'd love your vote entrusting me with SFPA'S finances. We have exciting things on the horizon!

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 7d

✍️ 📖 There are more than 2 dozen ways to approach the all important "narrative arc." Many examples here: "Poets: Fast Forward Your Path to Book Publication"
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social
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» Poets: Fast Forward Your Path to Book Publication

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 9d

hey #PoetSky @sfpoetry.bsky.social

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 15d

ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)

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you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025). Ab...

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 11d

so sorry I missed you when tagging!! congratulations!!

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 11d

Two Latinx writers in the Rhysling Award!! 💖 Thank you so so much for including me!! :') And enormous congrats to all the finalists and especially @pedroiniguez.bsky.social for winning in multiple categories!! 😱🎉 Love to you friend, you deserve it! 🫂

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 12d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 11d

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to OTHERSIDE Poetry Editor @angelvleal.bsky.social!! "The Witch Recalls Her Craft" is such a beautiful piece, we remain in awe of Angel's work always 💜

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 12d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca · 12d

So thrilled to share that Water-Kin has won second prize in the Elgin Chapbook award! Congrats to all the nominees and my fellow chapbook authors, Katherine Quevedo and @bugthewriter.bsky.social! You can read Water-Kin for free online here: metatron.press/digipub/wate...

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Richard Leis @richardleis.com · 11d

More favorite poems and poets! Congratulations to all the winners of @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2025 Rhysling Award!

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2025 Rhysling Anthology and Award – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 11d

So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations to all the winners!

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 12d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 12d

"Cockle & Foxfire
built a spaceship

from endangered morpho
wings & pull-tabs secreted
from Polar Seltzer cans.”

Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! 🎈🦋💫

www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/fri...

fritillary frigate | Issue 11

Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

www.radonjournal.com

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 13d

Enhorabuena to @pedroiniguez.bsky.social for winning the Elgin Award from @sfpoetry.bsky.social for his collection MEXICANS ON THE MOON! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉

#poetry #poetrycommunity #scifi #latinx

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 12d

@sfpoetry.bsky.social just announced the Rhysling awards & Pat Masson's "The Last Valkyrie", published on Forgotten Ground Regained, got an honorable mention!

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A wonderful result for a poem that was (metaphorically speaking) buried with the author thirty years ago!

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Richard Leis @richardleis.com · 12d

Several of my personal favorite recent speculative poetry chapbooks and collections won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2025 Elgin Awards! Congratulations to everyone winning and nominated. It was a phenomenal batch of books this year.

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2025 Elgin Awards – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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