The winning poems for the 2025 Dwarf Stars award have now been announced.

The Dwarf Stars award is given by the Science Fiction Poetry Association each year to recognize the best speculative poem of 1–10 lines published in the previous year. SFPA members selected the following poems out of dozens of nominated works from 2024.

1st Place

Perish and Live Forever • Pedro Iniguez • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books)

2nd Place

[old junkyard] • Ngô Bình Anh Khoa • Star*Line 47.2

3rd Place

[warp drive folds spacetime] • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • Radon Journal 6

Honorable Mentions

Astrosommelier • R. Mac Jones • Star*Line 47.3

What Villains Read • Mary Soon Lee • Kaleidotrope, Autumn

Golden Shovel: Lon Chaney, Jr. as "The Wolf Man" • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • Altered Reality Magazine, Summer

For more information about the 2025 award, including a list of finalists and ordering information, please visit the 2025 Dwarf Stars anthology and award page.