The consensus:
After vigorous discussion, seems to have come down upon August oozing along like a gigantic slug made of flan rather than a gigantic slug made of ice cream. Please update all documentation appropriately. Meanwhile, here's what SFPA's members got up to during this most recent August.
Mike
Anna Cates
poem, "The Woodcutter," Disabled Tales, July 4, 2024, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/the-woodcutter-by-anna-cates
poem, "Magic Mirror," Disabled Tales, July 11, 2024, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/magic-mirror-by-anna-cates
poem, "The Looking Glass: An Afterwards," Disabled Tales, July 18, 2024, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/the-looking-glass-an-afterwards-by-anna-cates
poem, "Send Not to Know," Drifting Sands 28, July 2024, https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/DSH_July-2024_Issue-28.pdf
2 poems, "No Condolences" & "Chocolate Shoppe Ghost," Contemporary Haibun Online 20.2, 2024, https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/strongemcho-em20-2brtable-of-contents-strong/haibun/anna-cates-no-condolences/ & https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/strongemcho-em20-2brtable-of-contents-strong/tanka-prose-20-2/stronganna-cates-strong-chocolate-shoppe-ghost/
haiku, Hauling the Tide: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology 2024, https://www.hsa-haiku.org/member-anthol.htm
poem, “MAID,” Abstractaphy, August 2024, https://abstractaphy.org/category/community-voices/anna-cates/
Anna Cates & Steve Van Allen
poem, "Sisyphus at Check Out," Drifting Sands 28, 2024, https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/DSH_July-2024_Issue-28.pdf
2 poems, “Insurance?” and , “Day Three in Siem Reap” Abstractaphy, August 2024, https://abstractaphy.org/category/community-voices/anna-cates/
Eugen Bacon
poem, “Hot Enough to Collapse”, Galaxy Science Fiction #263, August 2024, https://galaxysf.com/
Adele Gardner
poem, genre/print, "What Evil Lurks," Spectral Realms No. 21, Summer 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-21
Michael H. Payne
4 poems, #42-45, Crown Moldering, Daily Grind, Aug 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/daily/mold01.html
4 poems, #1789-1792, Terebinth, Aug 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240805.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240812.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240819.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240826.html
poem, "A Game of Snake and Chicken," Fimfiction, Aug 14 2024, https://www.fimfiction.net/story/559867/1/a-game-of-snake-and-chicken/a-game-of-snake-and-chicken
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, print, "Rising Star," Spectral Realms #21, Summer 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-21
5 poems, print, "grib-tree nuts," "under the mask," "the kid's," "leave the bar," and "Let's Do Lunch," Scifaikuest, August, 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
Kate Boyes
collection, spec, GRUB: The Misadventures of a Miscreant and His Associates on Alt-Earth, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/GRUB-Misadventures-Miscreant-Associates-Alt-Earth-ebook/dp/B0DBHZMZXW
AJ Deane
collection, Portals, Anglia Print, Aug 2024, https://ajdeane.com/writing/
Miguel O. Mitchell
collection, Surrealia, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Aug 2024, https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/surrealia/
Lorraine Schein
2 prose poems, “Van Gogh/Yellow” and “EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy,” Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess, Angry Gable Press, July 2024, https://a.co/d/8ScdEbD
Wendy Van Camp
3 scifaiku, [under the full moon], [tedious capture], and [rivers shrink to sand], Scifaikust, August Anniversary Issue 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
2 poems, non-genre, "Twain" and " Haiku Rain", Verse-Virtual Journal, August 2024, https://www.verse-virtual.org/2024/August/van-camp-wendy-2024-august.html
5 panels, "Introduction to Genre Poetry", "Table Talk: Wendy Van Camp", "Speculative Poetry Jam", "Near, Far, Whenever You Are", and "The Art of the Interview", WorldCon, Glasgow, Scotland, https://glasgow2024.org
essay, non-genre, "Ten Tips: Landing Local Media Appearances", Indie Author Magazine, August 2024, https://indieauthormagazine.com
host, "Louisiana Poet Laureate Emerita Mona Lisa Saloy", Poets Cafe, KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, July 17th 2024, https://soundcloud.com/poetscafe
Linda D. Addison
poem, "Ghost Land of Giants," Folk Horror Short Stories, Flame Tree Press, August 27, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Short-Stories-Beyond-Within/dp/1804177326
Angela Acosta
poem, non-genre, "Approximation of Latin American," Rewrite the Stars Issue 8, July 2024, https://online.fliphtml5.com/fyury/rkqk/#p=62
poem, "In Slumber We Rehearse Our Days," Heartlines Spec Issue 5, Summer 2024, https://www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-5/
poem, "Accelerated Arrival," Future Visions Issue 7, 2024, Cosmic Daffodil, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62f08280cef09f68a7c89bfc/t/66aba32f4a92d2214d302dc8/1722524465158/FUTURE+VISIONS+EBOOK.pdf
Larina Warnock
poem, "It Didn't Fall In a Day," Abyss & Apex, July 2024, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2024/07/it-didnt-fall-in-a-day/
Elizabeth R. McClellan
poem, "Panikos Revisited," Strange Horizons, July 8, 2024, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/panikos-revisited/
Pixie Bruner
prose poem, "The Hermit and the Moon (Tarotredactyl)”, Misery Tourism, August 16, 2024, https://www.miserytourism.com/the-hermit-and-the-moon-tarotredactyl/
reading, “Here Is (Spark), In Season” and “You’d Be ______ if You ________”, Open Mic with Linda D. Addison for HWA's Halloween in July, YouTube, July 5, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/live/11I8jIMctRQ?si=3Dd66d4ubuuXa01d
coeditor/contributor, Nature Triumphs: A Charity Anthology of Dark Speculative Literature, Dark Moon Rising Publications, September 3, 2024, https://a.co/d/16K2U9g
M. C. Aster
poem, non-genre, "Four Random Fires," Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Summer 2024 Issue 9.1, https://www.snapdragonjournal.com/summer2024
J. D. Harlock
poem, "Flare to Brilliance & Fade," The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters, Thinking Ink Press, August 2024, https://www.thinkinginkpress.com/product/neurodiversiverse-alien-encounters/
poem, "The Cosmic Being," James Gunn’s Ad Astra, June 2024, https://www.adastrasf.com/issue-14/
Mahaila Smith
chapbook, "Enter the Hyperreal," above/ground press, August 2024, https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/new-from-aboveground-press-enter.html?m=1
poem, “How would you like to be perceived?” DOG TEETH Newsletter, August 2024, https://dogteethmag.substack.com/p/old-dog-old-tricks
prose poem, “FabBooth,” Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess, Angry Gables Press, July 31, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Extrasensory-Overload-anthology-speculative-excess-ebook/dp/B0D9YXKBRL
essay, “On Into the Hyperreal,” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, August 2024, https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2024/08/mahaila-smith-on-into-hyperreal.html?m=1
interview, “Six Questions interview #205: Mahaila Smith,” Chaudiere Books, August 2024, https://chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2024/08/six-questions-interview-205-mahaila.html
virtual reading, “Mahaila Smith: virtual reading series: periodicities,” Rob McLennan, YouTube, August 2024, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKBF3stX18
Lynne Sargent
poem, "Your Door," For a Friend, Lucent Dreaming, August 30 2024. https://lucentdreaming.com/product/for-a-friend-anthology-paperback-2024/
Arthur Chappell
poem, genre, "Winterkill," July 21 2024, https://arthurchappell.wordpress.com/2024/07/21/horror-poem-winterkill/
poem, non-genre, "Clutha," Aug 16 2024, https://arthurchappell.wordpress.com/2024/08/16/poem-clutha/
poem, genre, "Smoulderin Car," Aug 17 2024, https://arthurchappell.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/filk-lyric-poem-smoulderin-car/
G. O. Clark
poem, "Goin' Through Them Changes", Giant Robot Poems Vol. 01, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture/dp/1953665306
poem, "The Path", Spectral Realms No. 21, Summer 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-21
poem, "Held Over Indefinitely", Infradead 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/infradead-2024-1
Robert Frazier
poem, "Once You’re There You’re On Your Own," Utopia SF, June/July 2024 https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com
poem, "My Bone Whisperer," Abyss & Apex, June/July 2024 https://www.abyssapexzine.com/
Frank Coffman
3 poems, "The Explanation of the Mystery", "Gossamer Gateways", and "Born Again", Spectral Realms #21, Summer 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-21
Richard Leis
poem, “Phantom Taste of Apricot on My Tongue,” Nightmare Magazine Issue 142, July 2024, https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/phantom-taste-of-apricot-on-my-tongue/
poem, “The Handsome Men,” The Deadlands Issue 35, August 2024, https://thedeadlands.com/issue-35/the-handsome-men/
Lauren McBride
poem, genre, "making my skin crawl," horror senryu journal, August 28, 2024. https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/search/label/Lauren%20McBride
4 poems, genre, Scifaikuest print, August 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
poem, genre, "Lasting Legacy," The Fifth Di…, August 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/fifth-di-august-2024
Randall Andrews
2 drabbuns, "Eternal Regret" and "Unleashed," The Drabbun Anthology 2.0, Hiraeth Publishing, July 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/drabbun-2
3 scifaiku and 1 drabbun, "Untimely," Scifaikuest print, August 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
poem, "Poltergeists on President Street" read by Linda Gould on the Kaidankai podcast Around the Campfire, August 6, 2024, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/around-the-campfire-poltergeists-on-president-street-written-by-lindaann-loschiavo-read-by-linda-gould--60936589
review by Anthony Avina, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, August 12, 2024. https://authoranthonyavinablog.com/2024/08/12/always-haunted-halloween-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo-review/
2 reviews by Billy Mills, Apprenticed to the Night and Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, August 25, 2024, https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/recent-reading-august-2024-a-review/
poem, spec, “My Garden's Like a Singles Bar”, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, June 5, 2024, https://www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com/2024/06/my-gardens-like-singles-bar.html
poem, non-genre, “Four Days of Weeping”, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, June 23, 2024, https://www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com/2024/06/four-days-of-weeping.html
poem, non-genre, “Aboard S.S. Guiseppe Verdi”, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, July 9, 2024, https://www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com/2024/07/aboard-ss-guiseppe-verdi.html
poem, “Hulda, the Westchester Witch”, Clio's Curious Dash Through Time, Wild Ink Publishing, August 5, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Clios-Curious-Through-Magical-Library/dp/1958531758/ref=sr_1_1
3 poems, "Wolf Girl," "Wolfsbane Haibun," and "Lunar Beast", The Horror Zine, Fall 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Zine-Magazine-Fall-2024/dp/B0DCVLMCSV
3 poems, "Golden Shovel: Lon Chaney, Jr. as 'The Wolf Man'", "Duality" and "The Morning After", Altered Reality Magazine, Summer 2024, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/?s=LoSchiavo
3 poems, non-genre, "Bougainvillea in Rome, " "Secret Midtown Garden," and "Acapulco by Night", Zephyr Winds Journal, August 16, 2024, https://zephyrwindslitjournal.weebly.com/stories/three-poems-by
poem, “Eurydice in Hades", Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, August 25, 2024, https://suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue6
Marisca Pichette
poem, "In a vial on the windowsill you'll find it," Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September/October 2024, https://www.asimovs.com/current-issue/poetry/
poem, "Bride to the Queen of Winter," Slay and Slay Again, Sliced Up Press, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBG3Q5WZ
poem, "Start to Finish," Bleeding Hearts Beat Still, Haunted Words Press, July 2024, https://hauntedwordspress.bigcartel.com/product/bleeding-hearts-beat-still
Mary Soon Lee
organizer, first meeting of the SFWA speculative poetry book club, 8/24/2024, https://events.sfwa.org/events/speculative-poetry-book-club/
poem, "Diplomatic Arts," Utopia Science Fiction, June/July 2024, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/
poem, "What Heroines Read," The Future Fire, Issue 2024.70, July 2024, https://futurefire.net/2024.70/fiction/heroines.html
poem, "The Archive of Birds," Apparition Literary Magazine #27, July 2024, https://apparitionlit.com/the-archive-of-birds/
poem, "The Languages of Birds," Strange Horizons, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/the-languages-of-birds/
poem, "What Dragons Read," Uppagus, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-dragons-read/
Herb Kauderer
3 poems, print, “Rising Challenge”, “like a statue” (scifaiku), “late comeback”, Giant Robot Poems, Middle West Press, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture/dp/1953665306
reading, Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading for Disability Awareness Day, July 14, 2024, https://www.facebook.com/specpo/photos/july-is-disability-pride-month-and-to-celebrate-an-online-reading-of-speculative/865110348985373/
collection, Distilled from Water, Written Image, July 2024, https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/distilled-from-water
editor, Wheeling, Yet Not Free by Alan Katerinsky, Written Image, July 2024, https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wheeling-yet-not-free
collection, Ghosts Dream of Madmen, Written Image, July 2024, https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ghosts-dream-of-madmen
poem, print, “mail order spouse”, Dreams & Nightmares #137, May 2024 http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com
4 poems, online, “who’s on the menu”, “tradition made practical”, “abstinence”, “Wittgenstein’s World”, Scifaikuest online, August 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online
14 poems, print, “a transfer of certainty”, “someone’s pet”, “liminating weight”, “after the crash”, “the greens attract”, “anticipations”, “the weather outside”, “the rhythms of home”, “secret rendezvous”, “the long game”, “meeting the neighbors”, “brave explorer”, “celestial objects behaving badly”, and “remembering the lost”, Scifaikuest print, August 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
Herb Kauderer, David Clink & Halli Villegas
poem, “machines know flowers”, Scifaikuest print, August 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
Richard Magahiz
poem, non-genre, "Three-legged Lewis", Moss Piglet "Tools" issue, August 2024, https://www.krazines.com/
4 poems, genre, "[the idol's lips move]," "[fifty fathoms down]," "[creeping dust children]," and "[to your third eye]", Five Fleas, August 21, 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/08/morning-of-august-21-2024.html
Katherine Quevedo
panel, "Poetic Techniques to Challenge, Inspire, and Transform You (and Your Work!)," Willamette Writers Conference, August 3, 2024, https://web.cvent.com/event/4e68a5ce-dd39-47ad-bf6d-f998c113590b/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce
Lisa Timpf
poem, non-spec, “Spammers,” Little Old Lady Comedy, August 24, 2024, https://www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/spammers
Colleen Anderson
poem, "Small Reveals," Amazing Stories, Aug. 2024, https://amazingstories.com/2024/08/small-reveals/
Ann K. Schwader
poem, print, "Solstice Ghosts," Spectral Realms #21, Summer 2024, https://tinyurl.com/3w4w75te
Anthony Bernstein
haiku and haibun, "The Primal Burn", Scifaikuest, August '24, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2024
poem, "Nuit's Garden", Illumen Summer '24, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-summer-2024
2 poems, "Dream House of Abominations" and "Disassembly: Mine", Black Petals issue #108, July 15 2024, https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue752/id92.html and https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue752/id91.html
Alan Vincent Michaels
2 poems, "A Relic of Our Future" and "Relics of Earth's Lost Civilizations", SciFanSat Issue 12: Relic, July 27, 2024, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_12_Relic_07-27-2024.pdf
1 poem (with 4 different sequences), "Four 'Betrayal' Haiku", SciFanSat Issue 13: Betrayal, August 31, 2024, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_13_Betrayal_08.31.2024.pdf