SFPA July 2025 Round-Up

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Robert Frazier

     poem, "Styx Seasons",  Asimov's SF, July/August 2025, https://asimovs.com/current-issue/

Linda D. Addison

     3 poems, You, Human, Vol. 2, Written Backwards, 7/3/2025, https://nettirw.com/anthologies/

     poem, "Remembering the Taste of Air," Weird Tales Magazine #371, 7/15/2025, https://www.weirdtales.com/store/p/weird-tales-317-an-undead-issue

Linda D. Addison, Consuelo G. Flores, Andrea Goyan, Elizabeth Eve King & Elizabeth Wong

     collection, An Illegal Feast, Broadstone Books, 7/15/2025, https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/an-illegal-feast-poetry-by-addison-flores-goyan-king-wong

Deborah L. Davitt

     poem, general, "My Palimpsest," Italiks, volume 1, issue 1, July 1, 2025. https://www.italiks.com/issues/mypalimpsest

     4 poems, spec, "Shaping Futures," "The Alien's Doctoral Dissertation," "The Allegorical Prophet" & "On Why Your Favorite Diner’s Closed Down," The Limerick in Chains, Lightning Cellar Publications, July 22, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Limerick-Chains-Jacob-Bergstresser/dp/B0FG6QSNPH

A J Dalton

     poem, “The Curse”, The Brazen Head, 5 July 2025, https://brazen-head.org/2025/07/05/the-curse/

     poem, “The last country on earth”, Dreams & Nightmares #130, May 2025,  https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/06/062025b.html

     poem, "Red Alert", Pressured Youth, IHRAM Publishes, https://shorturl.at/8odOO

     2 poems, "Niflheim" & "Ultima Thule", The Mythic Circle #47, https://www.mythsoc.org/mythic-circle/mythic-circle-47.htm

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

     3 poems, "Goldilocks world," "the gesture," and "cadaver planet," Five Fleas, 26-July, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/07/afternoon-of-july-26-2025.html

Michael H. Payne

     4 poems, #1837 - 1840, Terebinth, July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250707.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250714.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250721.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250728.html

     panelist, "Wednesday Poetry Reading (Virtual)," August 13, 2025, Worldcon 2025, https://seattlein2025.org/program-and-events/schedule/#VIR002

Lorraine Schein

     poem, non-spec, “Two Lakes”, Certain Age, July 25, 2025, https://www.certainagemag.com/post/two-lakes

Angela Acosta

     poem in English and Spanish, "Heritage/Speaker" & "Hablante/Herencia," Samovar Issue 28, July 2025, http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/2025/07/28/heritage-speaker-hablante-herencia/ and http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/2025/07/28/hablante-herencia-heritage-speaker/

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

     poem, “Unexpected”, Italiks Literary Journal, July 1, 2025, https://www.italiks.com/issues/unexpected

     poem, “To My Descendants, None of Whom I Like As Much As I Like My House”, Dark Hearts: Triangulation’s 22nd Anthology, Parsec Ink Publishing, July 26, 2025, https://www.jessicacarver.com/

Richard Magahiz

     poem, non-genre, "Flat. Distant. Blue.", The Pedestal #96, https://thepedestalmagazine.com/richard-magahiz-flat-distant-blue/

     poem, genre, "For the defense", Dreams and Nightmares #130, May 2025, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/06/062025b.html

     poem, genre, "Wet chemistry", dadakuku, July 7, 2025, https://dadakuku.com/2025/07/07/wet-chemistry/

     4 poems, genre, "[lenticular clouds]," "[the day]," "[alcohol]," and "[via total immersion]", Five Fleas, 8 July 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/07/afternoon-of-july-8-2025.html

     poem, non-genre, "The teachings of the master", Gathering 2025, Poets Anonymous, Aug 2025, https://www.localgemspoetrypress.com/gathering-by-poets-anonymous-preorders.html

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

     review of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems by T.S.S. Fulk, GoodReads, July 7, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7718130157

     review of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems by S.T. Joshi, Spectral Realms #23, Summer 2025, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-23

     a winner, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, The World's Best Book Awards, July 7, 2025, https://theworldsbestmagazine.com/2025/07/07/announcing-the-winners-of-the-worlds-best-book-awards-2025/

     poem, non-genre, "The Rite of Pummarola", Paterson Literary Review # 53, June 15, 2025, https://www.patersonliteraryreview.com/

     poem, non-genre, "Failed Phoenix", Harrow House Journal #1, June 28, 2025, https://harrowhousejournal.wixsite.com/harrowhousejournal/june-2025

     2 poems. "Radiating" and "Slow Burning", Sublimation Vol. 2, Issue 3, May/June 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Sublimation-Midsummers-Nightmare-Magazine-Speculative/dp/B0FFY3BKZ7/

     poem, non-genre, "The Boiling Point" in Penstricken #3: Love and Hate, Summer 2025, https://penstricken.com/love-and-hate/

     2 poems, “My Dungeon Ghost” and “Burns”, Gathered Here Today: An Open Casket of Art and Poetry, Graveside Press, July 18, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Gathered-Here-Today-Casket-Poetry-ebook/dp/B0FJ5DG761/

     2 poems, "Streetwalker as Stalker" and "The Morning After", Spectral Realms #23, Summer 2025, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-23

     2 poems, "Napoleonic Fantasy" and "Hansel and the Hungry Witch", Miserere Review #4: Fantasy and Fiction, July 2025, https://www.miserere-review.com/read-issues

     2 poems, non-genre, "School Shooter" and "The Menace on Main Street", The Vagabond's Verse #1, August 1, 2025, https://www.thevagabondsverse.org/ and https://www.thevagabondsverse.org/weekly-verses/lindaann-loschiavo-the-menace-on-main-street

Lisa Timpf

     3 poems, spec, “Dispassionate Dispatch,” “If a Robot Comes,” and “The Ultimate Soldier,” Reimagined AI Volume 1, https://www.lulu.com/shop/achi-mishra/reimagined-ai-anthology/paperback/product-w4yr5pk.html?page=1&pageSize=4

     poem, spec, “How to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower,” Spaceports and Spidersilk, June 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-june-2025

     3 poems, non-spec, “Love Poem for Mother Earth,” “How to Deliver a Eulogy for Your Older Brother,” and “Borrowed Molecules,” Samjoko Magazine, Summer, Issue V, 2025, https://www.samjokomagazine.com/summer-issue-v-2025

     4 poems, non-spec, “Geography Lessons,” “A Most Unnatural State,” “This One’s for Sandra,” and “Same Song, Different Vibe,” Peterborough/Nogojiwanong’s Poetry & Art Journal Volume 14, Paddler Press, July 1, 2025, https://paddlerpress.ca/

Wendy Van Camp

     essay, “Poetry in Print: Shaping Your Own Chapbook”, Planetside Magazine, July 22, 2025, https://www.sfwa.org/2025/07/22/poetry-in-print-shaping-your-own-chapbook/

     panelist, “Stories of the Space Race with Lee Martindale, Dennis M. Myers, James Pittman, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III”, ConTinual Fandom Podcast, June 10, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXn631xYnLQ

     panelist, “Return to the Worlds of Pern with Kacey Ezell, Lee Martindale, Dennis M. Myers, Carole M Stokes, Melissa Olthoff, Marisa Wolf, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III”, ConTinual Fandom Podcast, Jun 18, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4euR57nsTQE&

     panelist, “Fantasy Civilizations with Jamie Garner, Kristin Jackson, Amy Kaplan, Gini Koch, Ken Lange, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III”, ConTinual Panel Room Podcast, Jun 23, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nevk3RSjIbc

     panelist, “Star Wars Tie-Ins with Jack Cullen, Dennis M. Myers, Wayland Smith, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III”, ConTinual Fandom Podcast, Jun 24, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2xclXmRJ54&t

     panelist, “Advice for New Writers with Layla Dorine, Barbara V Evers, Jamie Garner, Gini Koch, Nancy Northcott, Wayland Smith, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III”, ConTinual Panel Room Podcast, Jun 27, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNL518pboqk

     panelist, “Beating Writer's Block with Alyssa Askani, Jamie Garner, Gini Koch, James Pittman, Fraser Sherman, Wendy Van Camp, and host James P. Nettles III”, ConTinual Panel Room, July 10, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0u8qTliaMU

Silvatiicus Riddle

     poem, spec, "Maestro Beneath The Bluebells", Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2025, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summer-solstice-2025/maestro-beneath-the-bluebells/

     poem, spec, "The Witch is My Mother, The Witch is My Prince", Strange Horizons, July 14, 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-witch-is-my-mother-the-witch-is-my-prince/

Anna Cates

     haiku, Modern Haiku 56.2, Summer 2025, https://www.modernhaiku.org/

     tanka, Each in Our Own Way: Tanka Society of America 2024 Members’ Anthology, May 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Each-Our-Tanka-Society-America/dp/B0F79BMS1B

     haiku, Sense & Sensibility, August 2025, https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/sense-sensibility-august-2025/

     poem, “My Unlived Life,” Drifting Sands 32, June 2025, https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Issue-32.pdf

     poem, “Dinner Date” First Place, Cy Dostal Memorial Award, Ohio Poetry Day 2025, http://ohiopoetryday.blogspot.com/

Katherine Quevedo

     poem, reprint, "Peter Pumpkin Eater's Most Delectable Carving," Gathered Here Today, Graveside Press, July 18, 2025, https://geni.us/gatheredhere

     poem, non-genre, "Court Sestina," Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Volume 41 No. 2, July 9, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH78CHP5

     interview, "Interview with Katherine Quevedo - GaGR #3," Gloaming and Gamma Rays, July 3, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXhRVy3xubw

Elizabeth McClellan

     poem, spec, "Anchor Spindrift," Haven Spec Magazine, July 2025 https://www.havenspec.com/anchor-spindrift

     collection, spec, Is My Chainsaw A Heart: 13 Centos, kith books, July 3, 2025, https://www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/chainsawheart

M. Frost

     poem, "Tooth," James Gunn's Ad Astra Issue #16, https://www.adastrasf.com/tooth/

     2 poems, "Icarus" and "Asking Questions of the Stars," Illumen Summer 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-summer-2025-1

Sara Amis

     chapbook, Living Like Lions and Bears, Bottlecap Press, June 2025, https://bottlecap.press/products/lions

Jack Cooper

     poetry editor, Tamarind Issue 8, July 2025, https://tamarindlit.co.uk/2025/07/30/issue-8/

Christina M. Rau

     narrator, Marie Vibbert's story “Tactical Infantry Bot 37 Dreams of Trochees”, StarShipSofa #761, July 2025, http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2025/07/23/starshipsofa-761-marie-vibbert/

Ian Li

     poem, "what spirits need on lonely nights," Abyss & Apex, Issue 95, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/06/what-spirits-need-on-lonely-nights/

     poem, "not tied down," Strange Horizons, July 21, 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/not-tied-down/

Prasant Atluri

     poem, "Time Loop," Heartlines Spec #8, Summer 2025, https://www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-8/

Ken Poyner

     collection, Science Is Not Enough, Barking Moose Press, July 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGJB125T

Colleen Anderson

     collection, Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins, Raw Dog Screaming Press, July 2025, https://rawdogscreaming.com/book/vellum-leaves-and-lettered-skins/

     poem, "Faded Flower," Polar Borealis #35, Jul. 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/POLAR-BOREALIS-35-July-2025.pdf

S. T. Eleu

     poem, "Of What Use Are Names to Ghosts?" Altered Reality, Summer 2025, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Summer-25-Issue.pdf

Marisca Pichette

     3 poems, "threnody, adrift," "triboluminescence: a first-hand account," and "two hundred miles from Long Beach," F(r)iction, Issue 24: Oceans, July 2025, https://frictionlit.org/three-poems-marisca-pichette/

Lauren McBride

     poem, genre, “Dreaming of Dalí,” Abyss and Apex, July, 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/06/dreaming-of-dali/

Ann K. Schwader

     poem, "Re Extinction," Abyss & Apex, 3rd Quarter 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/06/re-extinction/

     haiku, "crickets all night . . . " & senryu, "hospital bed," non-genre, #FemkuMag #39, July 2025, https://69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_cc466f7a268c48058347bd952f07323e.pdf

Angela Liu

     poem, "The Church At The Edge of Time,” Strange Horizons, April 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-church-at-the-edge-of-time/

     poem, “High School Graduation, June 2099,” Worlds of Possibility June 2025, https://www.juliarios.com/introducing-the-june-2025-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/

     poem, “Toba Catastrophe Theory,” The Cosmic Background, July 2025, https://www.thecosmicbackground.com/poetry/angela-liu-toba-catastrophe-theory

Colleen S. Harris

     2 poems, “Ophelia Haunts Hamlet Via Pantoum” and “Some Days the Crow,” The MacGuffin, 40.3, https://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/

     2 poems, “I Know Why She Writes” and ”Gift Shop, Museum of Natural History,” The Main Street Rag, Summer 2025, https://mainstreetrag.com/

     poem, "Memoirs of a Goddess," Viridine Literary, Summer 2025, https://viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit/issues

Roger Dutcher

     haiku, could be genre, "twilight", Modern Haiku, 56.2 Summer 2025, https://www.modernhaiku.org/

     3 poems, "Robot Rabbit", "The Needed" & "What Can Happen on National Drink Wine Day", Dreams & Nightmares #130, May 2025, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/06/062025b.html

     poem, non-genre, "The Path Not Taken", Wisconsin Poets Calendar 2026, https://www.wfop.org/poets-calendar-1

     haiku, non-genre, "empty field", Wales Poetry Journal, Summer 2025, https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/summer2025

Mary Soon Lee

     poem, "What Death Reads," Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2025, http://www.asimovs.com/

Lori R. Lopez

     2 poems, genre, “The Withers” and “Night Thoughts”, Spectral Realms No. 23, Summer 2025, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-23

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