October 2017
Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations
- “Zheng He” by David Barber • 40.1
“Interplanetary Immigration Policy” by Mark Danowsky • 40.1
“Parable” by Michael Collins • 40.2
“Advice to a Six-Year-Old” by Mary Soon Lee • 40.2
“When I Speak” by Wendy Rathbone by 40.2
“For Preserves” by Cassandra Rose Clark • 40.6
Eye to the Telescope Pushcart prize nominations
- “The Android Who Gave Herself Away” by Rohinton Daruwala • ETTT 23
- “Just Rosie” by Kathleen A. Lawrence • ETTT 23
- “Universe Hopping” by Amanda Partridge • ETTT 24
- “The Tree Builder” by Christina Loraine • ETTT 25
- “Of One’s Choosing” by Loretta Casteen • ETTT 26
- “Point of Departure” by F. J. Bergmann • ETTT 26
July 2017
Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net nominations
- “Emancipation” by John C. Mannone • ETTT 21
- “The Doppelgänger and the Ghost” by Lev Mirov • ETTT 22
- “undying” by John C. Mannone • ETTT 22
- “The Android Who Gave Herself Away” by Rohinton Daruwala • ETTT 23
- “Just Rosie” by Kathleen A. Lawrence • ETTT 23
- “Universe Hopping” by Amanda Partridge • ETTT 24
May 2017
Lifetime SFPA member Herb Kauderer's poem “After” won the 2016 Asimov's Readers' Award. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/05/12477/
Herb Kauderer was the subject of an interview on the mainstream site Broadway World, but the interview, of course, spun off into speculative poetry.
April 2017
Stoker Winner
Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press) by Stephanie M. Wytovich has won HWA’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Touchstone Award
highway of sleeping towns by Deborah P Kolodji has won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation: thehaikufoundation.org/2017/04/25/deborah-p-kolodji-touchstone-award-winner/
February 2017
Stoker Finalist Ballot
The following SFPA members’ books are on the Final Ballot for HWA’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:
- Boston, Bruce and Manzetti, Alessandro – Sacrificial Nights (KippleOfficinaLibraria)
- Gailey, Jeannine Hall – Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems (Moon City Press)
- Simon, Marge – Small Spirits (Midnight Town Media)
- Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
January 2017
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:
- Betts, Matt – Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Boston, Bruce and Manzetti, Alessandro – Sacrificial Nights (Kipple Officina Libraria)
- Cowen, David E. – The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel Press)
- Gailey, Jeannine Hall – Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems (Moon City Press)
- Lepovetsky, Lisa – Voices from Empty Rooms (Alban Lake)
- Simon, Marge – Small Spirits (Midnight Town Media)
- Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press)