SFPA May 2026 Round-Up

Or perhaps:

     We should be more forceful and non-subjunctive about it! It's not that this may be the round-up of various activities the members of SFPA have gotten up to during the aforementioned month: it is the round-up of various activities the members of SFPA have gotten up to during the aforementioned month!

                                                  Mike

Paul Deane

     editor, Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 10, Spring 2026, https://alliteration.net/back-issues/new-series-issue-10-spring-2026/

Ruth Berman

     poem, non-genre, "Guilty Pleasures," Willow Review, Spring 2026, https://www.clcillinois.edu/community/performing-and-visual-arts-opportunities/willow-review

Robert Frazier & Roger Dutcher

     poem, "Forever and AllWayz," Dreams & Nightmares #133, May 2026, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/05/dn-133-contents.html

Robert Frazier

     2 poems, reprints, "Concrete Cuneiform Poem #1" and "The Burden of a Telepath," Sublimation Annual #2, April 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Sublimation-Annual-2-Best/dp/9199046938/

Wendy Van Camp

     3 poems, non-genre, “Where the Keys Begin," "Graduation Day," and "Open-Mic Night”, Verse-Virtual Journal, May 2026, https://www.verse-virtual.org/2026/May/van-camp-wendy-2026-may.asp?p=40&n=42

     essay, “Many Voices, One Book: How Indie Authors Build Anthologies”, Indie Author Magazine, May 2026, https://indieauthormagazine.substack.com/p/many-voices-one-book-how-indie-authors

     reading, “Starlit Scribes featuring Wendy Van Camp, Denise Dumars, Bree Wernicke, and Leanne Kathleen Indigo ”, LitFest in the Dena, Pasadena Presbyterian Church, Pasadena, CA, May 2nd 2026, https://www.litfestinthedena.org/

     finalist judge & speaker, “Tomorrow Prize”, Omega Project, Vrooman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, May 16th 2026, https://localnewspasadena.com/2025/the-omega-sci-fi-project-celebrates-young-writers/

     panelist & moderator, “Stepladder Speculative Feminism and Liminal Spaces in Speculative Fiction”, WisCon, Madison, WI, May 24th & 25th 2026, https://wiscon.net/

     poem, non-genre, under pen name Indigo Starling, “Tanka Number Five,” Rez: The virtual arts and life magazine, May 2026, https://viewer.joomag.com/april-2026/0752451001775348566/p28

     featured reader & host, under pen name Indigo Starling, “Wandering Bard Open-Mic featuring Indigo Starling”, Second Life Fantasy Faire, May 8th 2026, https://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/

     writing contest judge & host, under pen name Indigo Starling, “Nessie Day”, Second Life Corsica South Coasters, May 12th 2026, https://www.corsicasouthcoasters.com/

Angela Acosta

     poem, "Selling Stardust," Nebula Magazine, April 2026, https://nebulascifymagazine.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html

Colleen Anderson

     poem, untitled [lunar odyssey], Three Line Poetry, May 2026, https://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=59&issue=59

     poem, "In Our Nature," The Future Fire #76, May 2026, https://futurefire.net/2026.76/fiction/nature.html

     interview, "Horror and Speculative Fiction and Poetry with Colleen Anderson," Stark Reflections, May 2026, https://starkreflections.ca/2026/05/15/episode-474-horror-and-speculative-fiction-and-poetry-with-colleen-anderson/

A J Dalton

     poem, “Things Stood on Their Head”, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change vol 37 issue 2, May 2026, https://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/thingsst.html

     3 poems, “Visitation of the Nekra”, “Nether Realm” and “Denizens”, Exquisite Death e-zine, May 2026, https://www.exquisitedeathezine.com/poetry.html

Herb Kauderer

     4 haiku, “orbital fidelity”, “foreign custom”, “work stoppage” and “put a ring on it”, Scifaikuest print, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-2026

     3 haiku, “just like coming home”, “solo exploration” and “the search for depth”, Scifaikuest online, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest

     chapbook, East to West Volume Two: Letters to Olympus, Old News Press, April 2026, https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/letters-to-olympus

     poem, “Hearts Made of Springs”, Sublimation Annual #2: The Best of Volume 2, April 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Sublimation-Annual-2-Best/dp/9199046938

     5 poems, “going rates”, “post-apocalyptic remains”, “throat tightening”, “end of the night” and “Mesmerized Prey”, Scifaikuest print, May 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2026

     5 poems, “infrastructure”, “energy added”, “cultural exchange”, “the getaway getaway”, “deaf to the prophets”, Scifaikuest online, June 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online

Nico Martinez Nocito

     poem, "The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub," Strange Horizons, May 11, 2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-mermaid-speaks-of-social-justice-from-the-bathtub/

Ken Anderson

     poem, “Three Men or One,” Death Rattle / Oroboro Lit Journal Vol. 12, May 2026, https://deathrattle.org/vol-12-blog/ken-anderson

     poem, “A Gay Roue with Stars,” 2026 Winter Querencia, Querencia Press, May 2026, https://www.querenciapress.com/querencia-winter-2026

     poem, “A Simple Poem,” Poems from the Crowd 2026, Vallum Magazine, Summer 2026, https://vallummag.com/product/poems-from-the-crowd-2026/

Brian U. Garrison

     poem, "I'm not anti-apocalypse, but I don’t want it to happen now," Wildscape Lit issue 6, May 5 2026, https://wildscapelit.com/brian-u-garrison-im-not-anti-apocalypse-but-i-dont-want-it-to-happen-now

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

     poem, non-genre, "Bats at Bedtime", translated into Italian, Saturno Magazine, Apr 11, 2026, https://www.saturnomagazine.com/dettagli-articolo.php?id=1326

     poem, non-genre, “The Italian Folk Dance of Pummarola”, Quantum Phoenix, May 18th, 2026, https://quantumphoenix.weebly.com/scientists.html

     poem, "Hansel and the Hungry Witch," Fang & Flower Issue 002: Heatwaves, May 31, 2026, https://substack.com/home/post/p-195490385

     article, "Inviting Stoker Inside: My Tribute to Dracula in Vampire Verses", The Altruist Newsletter Vol. 1, Issue 5, June 2026, https://thealtruistnewsletter.substack.com/p/blood-and-spades-lindaann-loschiavo

Michael H. Payne

     4 poems, #1880 - 1883, Terebinth, May 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2026, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260504.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260511.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260518.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260525.html

Madeline Barnicle

     poem, "Pantuns for Mathematicians," SpecPoVerse Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

M. Frost

     5 poems, "the hollow inside," "Bleeding Heart," "Keeper of the Scarab," "Gargoyle of Notre Dame," and "the Tropes," Lothlorian Poetry Journal, April 2026, https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/five-poems-by-m-frost.html

     2 poems, "dawn at the end" and "Asteroid (or the B-movie version of the Apocalypse)." SpecPoVerse vol.1 no.2, April 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

     poem, "No Killing Moths," Project Abeona, May 2026, https://substack.com/home/post/p-198123998

     reprint poem, "The Orchid," Sublimation Annual II, May 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Sublimation-Annual-2-Best/dp/9199046938/

     2 poems, non-genre, "A Burden of Fox," and "The Lava Fields." Stoat Poetry #1, April 2026, https://www.stoatmagazine.co.uk/shop

     poem, non-genre, "Learning how to be smaller," The Hootlet's Nook, May 2026, https://www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issue/learning-how-to-be-smaller

J. D. Harlock

     poem, "Dreams of Stars," Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, May 2026, https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?p=4646

     poem, "A Waltz Among the Stars," Interesting Times: A Hopepunk Anthology, End of the World Publishing, February 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Interesting-Times-Anthology-Suzanna-Lundale/dp/B0GPPNYVJ2

     poem, "Whispers of the Primordial Deep," Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors, Brigid Gate Press, December 2025, https://brigidsgatepress.com/product/poisoned-soup-for-the-macabre-depraved-and-insane-nostalgic-terrors

     poem, "To Hunt a Canvasback in the Great Plains," Gray's Sporting Journal v.50 no.2, May 2025, https://shop.themilepost.com/products/pre-order-grays-sporting-journal-50th-anniversary-issue

     poem, "The Children of the Forest," Home Constellations: A Speculative Anthology of Unconventional Bonds, Manawaker Studio, March 2026, https://www.manawaker.com/product/home-constellations-a-speculative-anthology-of-unconventional-bonds/

Richard Magahiz

     poem, genre, "A Young Flaneur's Guide to Ten-Dimensional Space", Uppagus #73, May 2026, https://uppagus.com/poems/magahiz-young

     poem, genre, "Nine out of ten shamans recommend", Dadakuku, May 2026, https://dadakuku.com/2026/05/20/nine-out-of-ten-shamans-recommend/

     poem, genre, "[under a howler]", Smols, May 2026, https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/blog-post_577.html

     poem, genre, reprint, "Body after body after body", Sublimation Annual 2, April 2026, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sublimation-annual-2-ts-s-fulk/1150029641

     4 poems, genre, "[watered silk whales drift dead north]," "[twelve volunteer corpses]," "[by the ion cloud]," and "[like when a baby's toy]", Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 29 May 2026, https://heliosparrow.com/2026/05/9568/, https://heliosparrow.com/2026/05/24-17/, https://heliosparrow.com/2026/05/23-17/, and https://heliosparrow.com/2026/05/25-16/

Mary Soon Lee

     poem, "So This Is A Week," Strange Horizons, 5/25/2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/so-this-is-a-week/

     2 poems, "River Dragon" & "Samurai Dragon," SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

     poem, "Mars Loop Magpies," Space and Time #149, April 2026, https://payhip.com/b/Pid0l

     poem, "The God They Trusted Guards Their Graves," Space and Time #150, May 2026, https://payhip.com/b/O0xDE

     poem, "Whale Dragon," 4LPH4NUM3R1C2.0 Episode 20: Not Vegetable, Not Mineral, 5/25/2026, https://www.zoeticpress.com/4lph4num3r1c/2026/5/25/episode-20-not-vegetable-not-mineral

     poem, non-genre, "What Li Bair Read," Uppagus #73, May 2026, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-li/

     host, SFWA's speculative poetry book club, May 30 2026, https://sfwa.org/singularity/

Lynne M. MacLean

     poem, “Tallgrass Wellness Check,” Arc Poetry Magazine #109, Spring 2026, https://arcpoetry.ca/editorials/magazine/arc-109

Sara Youngblood Gregory

     collection, Dead Boys in Space, YesYes Books, May 2026, https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/dead-boys-in-space

Anna Cates

     haibun, “What’s the Buzz?,” Our Natural Cities: Urban Nature Poems: 2026 Edith Chase Anthology, Last Exit Press, April 2026, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1046096912198959/posts/3740770472731576/

     5 poems, “Nosferatu,” “Freddie,” 2 haiku & a tanka, Cattails #261, April 2026, http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails261.pdf

G. O. Clark

     poem, "No Leaf Blowers On Mars", Shelter Of Daylight, May 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/shelter-of-daylight-may-2026

Ian Li

     poem, "Worm Hole," 4LPH4NUM3R1C, May 2026, https://www.zoeticpress.com/an-20-not-vegetable-not-mineral

Carol Edwards

     poem, "Moon Eater," Space & Time #149, April 2026,  https://payhip.com/b/Pid0l

Marisca Pichette

     2 poems, "ossified," and "In a Universe encased in clear Cellophane," SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

     poem, "american spirit," Monsterf#ck, Incision Press, April 2026, https://incisionpress.com/product/monsterfck/

     poem, "Murder Ballad 101," Sometimes Hilarious Horror, Vol. 3, Issue 3, https://ko-fi.com/s/139f54fe6f

     poem, "The Last Glacial Maximum," Dreams & Nightmares #133, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/05/dn-133-contents.html

Christiaan Sabatelli

     chapbook, Personal Mythologies, Bottlecap Press, Aug 2026, https://bottlecap.press/products/perscs?keyword=sabatelli

Katherine Quevedo

     event, Beaverton Local Author Fair, Horror Writers Association (HWA) Oregon Chapter table, May 16, 2026, https://www.beavertonlibrary.org/362/Local-Author-Fair

Brad Hoge

     5 poems, non-genre, 2 online, 3 print, "Information Theory" and "Schrodinger's Equation" online and "Pannotia Dancing," "Fossiliferous Limestone: a translation", and "Wandering Mind" in print, Infocalypse #2: Without a Face, April 2026, https://www.infocalypse.press/issue-2-without-a-face/

     interview, non-genre, online, MFA Writers Podcast with Jared McCormick, Ep. 150, April 7, 2026, https://www.jaredmccormack.com/ep-150-brad-hoge

     2 poems, non-genre, online, "The Normal Equation" and "Eye of God," The Collidescope, December 2025, https://thecollidescope.com/page/2/

Akua Lezli Hope, Linda D. Addison, and Others Forthcoming

     reading, "Juneteenth: the Black Fantastic," June 14th 2026 from 7 to 8pm EDT, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RyhERLKZQwamhBygNx5D9g#/registration

Akua Lezli Hope

     mini interview, Space Cowboy Books, May 20 2026, https://spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spotlight-telepath-by-akua-lezli-hope/

     poem, "AMERICA," The Revolution Will Be Poeticized,, WSKG-TV, May 2026. https://wskg.org/poetry

     panelist, "Self Editing Strategies," "Learning from Bad Reviews," and "Writing Despite It All," Balticon, May 22-25, 2026, https://schedule.balticon.org/people/19169

     reading, "TELEPATH," Southeast Steuben County Library Virtual Live Reading, May 17, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gEiFq8FSEE

     book, TELEPATH, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, April 2026, https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/telepath/

Lisa Timpf

     3 poems, spec, “The Trees Take a Stand,” “Nations Agree to Work Together for Space Exploration Without Exploitation” and “Laika the Greeter,” Sublimation Volume 3 #1: Walking the Path to Utopia, May 9, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0H112VY42

Pixie Bruner

     poem, “Falling Out of Trees”, Dreams and Nightmares #133, May 2026, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/05/dn-133-contents.html

     poem, “Comet” (original Herschel version, longer form), Penumbra Literature and Arts, Summer 2026 Print Edition, https://www.penumbraonline.com

     poem and essay, “Post-Partum Self Destruction," Pixie's Substack, May 1, 2026, https://open.substack.com/pub/pixiebruner/p/postpartum-self-destructive

     poem, “The Backrooms”, Pixie's Substack, May 19, 2026, https://open.substack.com/pub/pixiebruner/p/the-backrooms

S. T. Eleu

     poem, "Sci-fi Night Invite" Five Fleas, April 3 2026, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/04/afternoon-of-april-2026.html

     2 poems, "The Fox, the Scorpion, & the Skunk" & "Cheap Locks" Lothlorien, May 2026, https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-poems-by-s-t-eleu.html

     poem, "Tre dagar av draken" Spec-po Verse vol.2 #1, April 30, 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

Kimberly Kuchar

     poem, "Freely Given," Galaxy Science Fiction #264, April 2026, https://starshipsloane.com

H.V. Patterson

     poem, "Night of the Living Cabbage Patch Kids," SpecPoVerse, Vol 2.1, Spring 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

     poem, "Elk Season," Timber Ghost Press, Spring 2026, https://www.timberghostpress.com/blog/elk-season-by-hv-patterson#/

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

     poem, print, “Midnight Special at Lost Souls Craft Beer And Spirits Bar”, Speck Magazine #1, May 2026, https://speckmag.com/

     poem, “We Were Supposed to See the Remake of Nosferato But…”, Double Dutch Magazine #3, May 2026, https://www.doubledutchmagazine.com/issue-3-we-were-supposed-to-see-the-remake-of-nosferato-but-by-juleigh-howard-hobson

     poem, print, “Pests”, Australian School Magazine:Touch Down #2, March 2026, https://www.theschoolmagazine.com.au/magazines/touchdown

Nicholas De Marino

     poem, “Chimes,” SciFanSat #34: Rescue, May 30, 2026, https://scifansat.com/bibi/?book=SciFanSat_Issue_34_Rescue_05-30-2026.epub#p=1

     poem, “[weathering fear],” View From Atlantis #139: Arctic Mysteries, May 2026, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/issue-139-arctic-mysteries/

     4 poems, “[an inhuman moan],” “[fallen angel dips me],” “[my steel heart rattles],” & “[a bible appears],” Scifaikuest print version, May 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2026-1

     2 poems, “[skipping planetoids]” & “[growl and crimson glare],” 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, May 3 & May 5, 2026, https://575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/haiku-by-nicholas-de-marino-20/ & https://575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/haiku-by-nicholas-de-marino-21/

     3 poems and readings, “Rainy Day Activity,” “Goodnight Moon Starer,” & “There Are No Snails on Aesop 564,” SpecPoVerse Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 30, 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

Randall Andrews

     poem, “Ride and Dine,” Specpoverse, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 30, 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-1-2026

Peter Payack

     prose poem, reprint, “The Jam”. The Paris Review Daily Poem, April 28 2026, https://mailchi.mp/theparisreview.org/newslettersignup

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