SFPA August 2024 Round-Up

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.

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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

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