This time of year:
Always reminds me of a friend from my high school days. He held that, if "spooks" went "boo," then "sperks" would go "ber." So here we are at the first of the "ber" months, and here's what the members of SFPA got up to during it.
Mike
Robert Frazier
poem, "Ten Indicators of Time Drift", Asimov's SF, Sept/Oct 2025, https://asimovs.com/current-issue/table-of-contents/
Sumiko Saulson
poem, "The Bones of My Poetry Crack," StokerCon Souvenir Anthology, Burial Day Books, June 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236598978-stokercon-2025-souvenir-anthology
4 poems, "Monstrous," “Ghost in my Heart,” “A Consumption of Cancer,” and “Heartbreaker,” The Horror Zine Magazine Fall 2025, August 12, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Zine-Magazine-Fall-2025/dp/B0FM8453H4/
poem, "My Ghosts Have Dreams," This Way Lies Madness: Beyond and Within, Flame Tree Collections, October 14, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/This-Lies-Madness-Beyond-Within/dp/180417906X
poem, "A Rise in Red," Nightmerica: Corruptions of the American Dream, Dragon's Roost Press, July 4, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Nightmerica-Corruptions-American-Amanda-Worthington/dp/1956824685
poem, "Canticle of the Cosmic Vampire," Spacefunk!, MVmedia LLC, January 25, 2025, https://www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page/spacefunk
poem, "Heal Me With Your Purr," Black Cat Tales: An Anthology of Black Cats, Black Cat Publishing, June 2025, https://geni.us/blackcattales
Michael H. Payne
5 poems, #1845 - 1849, Terebinth, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250901.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250908.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250915.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250922.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250929.html
Robert Borski
poem, “Sea Log of the Quantum Steamship Navy,” Dreams & Nightmares #131, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/09/091125.html
poem, “Ivan ‘Maket’ Ivanovich,” NewMyths 72, Fall 2025, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-72/issue-72-stories/ivan-maket-ivanovich
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
2 poems, non genre, “Aisle 4”, “Agaricus campestris” TV-63, McGee Pub, Sept 15 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRZHG824
3 poems (speculative but not quite genre). “Marlowe’s Season”, “Marlowe’s Toast” & “Marlowe’s Shadow”, Pulsebeat Poetry Issue 12, Sept 15 2025, https://pulsebeatpoetry.com/pulsebeat-12/juleigh-howard-hobson/
poem, “We Don’t Know Who We Are”, Baltimore Gothic, Sept 3 2025, https://www.baltimoregothic.com/post/we-don-t-know-who-we-are-by-juleigh-howard-hobson
prose poem “Wake”, Bright Flash Literary Review, August 19 2025, https://brightflash1000.com/
2 poems “Malum Folium Germinabunt” (reprint) and “To A New Werewolf”, SKUMMEL, August 19 2025, https://skummel.net/malum-folium-germinabunt-1
poem, “Sustain Your Afterlife By Following Rules That Make No Sense (But You Have To Follow Them Anyway)”, This Exquisite Topography, Angry Gable Press, August 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/This-Exquisite-Topology-collection-abstractions/dp/B0FCFQ6KFN/
poem “The Snare”, 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/
3 poems, non genre, “Things”, “Lost Supper” & ”Things Have a Way of Piling Up”, Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy, July 2025, https://www.bookxi.org/issuexviii
3 poems, “before the flies we must become”, “we maggots we (the maggot’s prayer)” & “ In Decay”, Memento Mori Ink MORSUS VITAE Issue 7, June 2025, https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/mvpresent
Ken Anderson
3 poems, “The Alleged Suicide Attempt,” “Britten’s Saint Nicolas at the Fox Theater,” & “Stanford, Kentucky, May 30, 1863,” Three Panels, Issue 5: Honey & Ash, https://www.canva.com/design/DAGzxA338As/BW3346mBMe97W3xLwt8exg/edit
Angela Acosta
poem, non-genre, "Fluency," The Font: A Literary Journal for Language Teachers vol. 2, 2025, https://thefontjournal.com/fluency/
2 poems, "Smiling at Wisteria" and "Proxima Centauri Word Problem #7," Voices & Visions Spring/Summer 2025, https://voicesandvisionsjournal.wordpress.com/spring-summer-2025-starstruck
Leticia Toraci
2 poems, "Otherworldly Dragon" and "Nymphs," Carmina, Sept 2025, http://carminamagazine.com/otherworldly-dragon.html & http://carminamagazine.com/nymphs.html
M. Frost
poem, "Pterosaur," Strange Horizons, Sept 22 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/pterosaur/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
award for Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, September 10, 2025, The World's Best Magazine, Sept 9, 2025, https://theworldsbestmagazine.com/2025/09/09/new-winners-of-the-worlds-best-awards-2025-honoring-visionaries-innovators-and-changemakers/
review by One Tribune of Apprenticed to the Night, September 2, 2025, https://onetribune.one/2025/09/02/apprenticed-to-the-night-by-lindaann-loschiavo-2/
reviewed by Mary Soon Lee of Vampire Ventures, GoodReads, September 8, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7900285697
essay, "Poetry and Publicity: Crafting News Pegs to Boost Marketing Momentum," Beyond Craft, Sep 06, 2025, https://beyondcraft.substack.com/p/poetry-and-publicity-crafting-news
reading by Alex Goleman, "Poltergeists on President Street," Episode 162, Campfire Tales #6, The Lunatics Radio Hour [at the 32:00 minute mark], September 16, 2025, https://www.lunaticsproject.com/episodes/episode/7dd46366/campfire-tales-6
reading, "Strong Women, Strange Worlds Quick Reads," September 18, 2025, https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/september-18-2025-handout.html
feature on Cancer Courts My Mother, Fine Lines Journal, Vol. 34, Issue 3, Autumn 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSL556YV
poem, non-genre, "Denying the Diagnosis," Scribeworth Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2025, https://www.scribeworth.com/magazine?pgid=me988qks-634ed595-770e-449c-920e-a7e433049f0a
2 poems, “Something Changed Capital Steez” and “Death Waited Like a Stage Door Johnny,” Dominique Literary, July 28, 2025, https://dominiquelitmag.org/2025/07/28/something-changed-capital-steez/ and https://dominiquelitmag.org/2025/07/28/death-waited-like-a-stage-door-johnny/
poem, non-genre, "Arrival," The Writer's Journal: Door, September 5, 2025, https://writers-journal.com/publications
2 poems, "Pallas Athena Becomes Mentor" and "Pomegranate," Carmina, September 2025, http://carminamagazine.com/pallas-athena-mentor-lindaann-loschiavo.html and http://carminamagazine.com/pomegranate-lindaann-loschiavo.html
poem, non-genre, “Night Requires No Applause”, Stars, Verseve Publishing, September 29, 2025, https://verseve.gabriellev.art/stars-anthology-2025-is-out-now
Brian U. Garrison
poem, "Holiday Offerings," Kozy Krampus, Underland Press, September 2025, https://www.underlandpress.com/kozy-krampus
Wendy Van Camp
2 panels, “Starlit Scribes: Speculative Voices, Timeless Themes” and “Tiny Poems, Infinite Worlds: The Dwarf Star Awards”, Eaglecon, September 23rd, https://www.eagleconla.com/schedule
interview, "#17 The Ins and Outs of Speculative Poetry”, The Write Atmosphere Podcast, September 11th, https://youtu.be/YYIkcxqnS-E
essay, “After Publish: How to Give Your Book a Second Life”, Indie Author Magazine, September Issue, https://indieauthormagazine.com/after-publish-how-to-give-your-book-a-second-life/
2 poems, "Persephone” & "Science Fiction Books”, Verse-Virtual Journal, September Issue, https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/September/van-camp-wendy-2025-september.html
chapbook, The Planets Companion: an astropoetry chapbook, Indigoskye Press, August 23rd, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNKMXNJD
essay, "So You Want to Be on a Panel? Let’s Talk About How to Get There”, Ionisphere #47, August Edition, https://fanac.org/fanzines/Ionisphere/
interview, “Episode #9: The Laureate”, Authoress Cafe Podcast, August 7, http://www.authoresscafe.com/?m=1
essay, “Finding Your Voice Again: What a Writing Retreat Can Offer”, Medium, August 3, https://medium.com/@wvancamp/finding-your-voice-again-fe14e78c4822
Katherine Quevedo
poem, reprint, "Ariadne Goes to Knitting Group," The Ones Behind the Bookshelves, September 7, 2025, https://theonesbehindthebookshelves.substack.com/p/six-word-story-a-knitting-group-war
Kenny A Chaffin
poem, "The Schism," ScribesMICRO #50, Sept 30 2025, https://www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-50.html/
Dianthe West
poem, "Some Shining Earth," Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon, July 2025, https://www.amazon.ca/Fractured-Reveries-Storied-Imaginarium-Salon-ebook/dp/B0FKPPNT7X
Silvatiicus Riddle
poem, non-spec, "Black Sheep", The Goblin's Reliquary, September 2025, https://silvatiicus.substack.com/p/black-sheep
Richard Magahiz
5 poems, genre, "See what they've made us do," "Gravity wave rhapsody ," "Ornithosuchus on the Dnieper ," "Shirt ," and "Our nova," Medusa's Kitchen: Against the Cold, September 7, 2025, https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2025/09/against-cold.html
3 poems, genre, "[it was no contest]," "[each sporting]," and "[the thin line]", Five Fleas, September 10, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/09/afternoon-of-september-10-2025.html
2 poems, genre, "Thursday, June 20 to Sunday, September 22" and "Body after body after body", Sublimation vol. 2 #4: It's Okay, I've Got a Backup, July/August 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR2H1463
poem, genre, "[children's ativan]", dadakuku, 22 September 2025, https://dadakuku.com/2025/09/22/get-with-the-program/
2 poems, genre, "[Hepplewhite]" and "[lamasery]", Smols, 23 September 2025, https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/09/hepplewhite-inlay-element-126-richard.html
Lisa Timpf
2 poems, spec, “Laika,” and “An HR Dilemma,” Scifaikuest August 2025, print, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2025
3 poems, spec, “In the Name of Convenience,” “One Down,” and “No Need to Worry,” Sublimation Volume 2, Issue 4: It’s Okay, I’ve Got a Backup, July/August 2025, https://www.islandofwakwak.com/sublimation-volume-2-2025.html
A J Dalton
review by Mark Kirkbride of Dark Woods Rising, Gothic Nature Journal, September 11, 2025, https://gothicnaturejournal.com/review-dark-woods-rising/
3 poems, “The Lament of Hector”, “Jupiter”, and “Baldur’s Saga”, Empyrean Literary Magazine #15, Autumn 2025, https://www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com/dalton-the-lament-of-hector.html, https://www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com/dalton-jupiter.html and https://www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com/issues.html
Eugen Bacon
2 prose poems, "Is This How You Pictured It?" and "All things are a price," Live Encounters 16th Anniversary volume 2, November/December 2025, https://liveencounters.net/16th-anniversary-editions-2025/eugen-bacon-is-this-how-you-pictured-it/