Every year:
I tell myself that I won't let it bother me, the way "decem" in Latin means "ten" and yet December is the 12th month. That I'm writing about it here, though, shows, I think, just how much I listen when I tell myself things. But still, here's what the members of SFPA have gotten up to during 2025's twelfth—not tenth—month.
Mike
Paul D. Deane
poem, "The Last Man on Mars," The Brazen Head, Winter 2025, https://brazen-head.org/2025/12/01/the-last-man-on-mars
Michael H. Payne
5 poems, #1858 - 1862, Terebinth, Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251201.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251208.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251215.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251222.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251229.html
poem, "Perilous Stare & Friendship Fair," Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, Dec. 14, 2025, https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/fantasy/perilous-stare-friendship-fair/
poem, "What Water Says," Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2025, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2025/what-water-says/
Daniel Ausema
poem, "In the Sloth Tunnels, at a Time of War," Small Wonders, December 2025, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/in-the-sloth-tunnels-at-a-time-of-war/
Colleen Anderson
poem, "The Weavers," Newmyths.com #73, Dec. 2025, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue73/issue-73-stories/the-weavers
poem, "To His Koi Mistress," OnSpec #133, Vol 35 No 3, Dec. 2025, https://onspec.ca/current-issue/
Robert Frazier
poem, "The Timetrippers Tale - A Transference", Worlds of If Vol. 2 #2, Issue 179, November 2025, https://worldsofifmagazine.com
Lorraine Schein
2 poems, “Mermaid Floats” & “Neptune Blue”, Effervescent, Fifth Wheel Press, November 19, 2025, https://fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backend/schein1 & https://fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backend/schein2
poem, “Masks Confronting Death”, Horizons #18, Dec 2025, https://britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch/bfs-horizons/
A J Dalton
poem, “Banshee”, Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2025, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2025/banshee/
poem, “The Simulation”, Breath and Shadow vol. 22 #4, Fall 2025, https://www.abilitymaine.org/bs2025fall/"the-simulation"
Lauren Scharhag
poem, "The Turner Doomsday Video," Central Texas Writer's Society and Beyond 2025, October 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX2CFDL5
poem, "Soulbirds and Firefoxes," Marrow Magazine Halloween Contest: Forgotten, October 2025, https://marrowmagazine.com/soulbirds-and-firefoxes/
5 poems, "The Midnight Paintings of Dr. Seuss," "The Jumping-Off Place," "That Time My Car Became a Swamp," "Pompeii," & "Resurrection," Lothlorien Journal, November 2025, https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/five-poems-by-lauren-scharhag.html
poem, "Bird Bones," Ivo Review, Issue 2: Lost, December 2025, https://www.ivoreview.com/issues/issue-two-lost
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
interview, "On Turning Caregiving Into Creative Expression," OneTribune, Nov. 29, 2024, https://onetribune.one/2025/11/29/lindaann-loschiavo-on-turning-caregiving-into-creative-expression/
interview, Exquisite Death, December 1, 2025, https://www.exquisitedeathezine.com/interview-lindaann-loschiavo.html
interview, "Gaining Self-Confidence through Poetry," Bold Journey, December 2, 2025, https://boldjourney.com/meet-lindaann-loschiavo/
2 awards, Vampire Verses, OneTribune Media and The Bookish Magazine, November 30, 2025, https://brandnews24.us/press-release/2025-11-30/26976/vampire-verses-by-lindaann-loschiavo-receives-two-literary-awards
9 reviews, Cancer Courts My Mother, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8114174583, https://authoranthonyavina.com/2025/12/03/cancer-courts-my-mother-by-lindaann-loschiavo-review/, https://thebookishmagazine.com/2025/12/05/cancer-courts-my-mother-by-lindaann-loschiavo/, https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7403045040090148864/, https://thepbsblog.com/2025/12/11/yecheilyahs-book-reviews-cancer-courts-my-mother-by-lindaann-loschiavo/, https://wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/2025/12/12/book-review-cancer-courts-my-mother-by-lindaann-loschiavo/, https://bookjewel.blogspot.com/2025/12/cancer-courts-my-mother.html, https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/recent-reading-december-2025-a-bumper-yuletide-special/, https://phillychapbookreview.org/poetry-chapbooks-november-2025/#Cancer_Courts_My_Mother_LindaAnn_LoSchiavo
4 reviews, Vampire Verses, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8100875952, https://authoranthonyavina.com/2025/12/05/vampire-verses-by-lindaann-loschiavo-review/, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8090898075, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8152961298
poem, "My Dying Mother Requests Miracles,” Tabula Rasa #3, June 22, 2025 https://tabularasareview.com/2025/06/22/issue-3/
poem, "When Carmilla Returns, Styria Is Different," Fang & Flower #1: The Veiled, December 2025 https://substack.com/home/post/p-177214729
poem, "On October 31st," Penumbric Volume IX #3, October 2025 https://www.penumbric.com/archives/October2k25/loschiavoOctober.html
poem, "Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise," Penumbric Volume IX #4, December 2025, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/loschiavoWolf.html
poem, "Cemetery Walk in Winter," Latinos-USA, Dec. 12, 2025 https://latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/cemetery-walk-in-winter-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
poem, non-genre, "Visiting Angela," Lunae Literature & Review #1, Dec. 21, 2025 https://lunaelitreview.weeblysite.com/issue-i
poem, "Beware the Jabberwock," Double Dutch Magazine #1, January 1, 2026, https://www.doubledutchmagazine.com/issue-1-beware-the-jabberwock-by-lindaaan-loschiavo
Wendy Van Camp
essay, “How to Write Microfiction and Poems for Social Media Sharing”, Medium, November 1, 2025, https://medium.com/p/64052e6f52fc
panelist, “Why We Love Romance Series moderated by Gail Martin, with Nancy Northcott, Vikki Perry, Libby Tanner, and Wendy Van Camp”, ConTinual Podcast, November 7, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=1582544322914404
reading, “Poetry Panel led by Josh Wood, with Douglas Manuel, Raundi Moore-Kondo, Jeremiah Cobra and Wendy Van Camp”, OC Book Fair, November 15th, 2025, https://www.theocbookfair.org/
moderator, "Poetry, Flash, & the Power of Hybrid Storytelling: with Mary Soon Lee, Brian U. Garrison, Gwynne Garfinkle, and Jennifer Hudak, moderated by Wendy Van Camp”, SFWA Quasar Conference, November 16th, 2025, https://sfwa.org
reading, “SCHSG Reading, moderated by Yvette Nicole Kolodji,” On The Edge Virtual Conference, Haiku Society of America, November 21st, 2025, https://www.hsa-haiku.org/
reading, “Anaheim Poetry Review 3 Launch Party, hosted by Anaheim Poet Laureate Camille Hernandez”, Radiant Beer Company, November 21st, 2025, https://www.radiantbeer.com/
essay, “Mastering Microsoft Word: 10 Essential Tips for Authors”, Indie Author Magazine, December 2025, https://indieauthormagazine.com/mastering-microsoft-word-10-essential-tips-for-authors/
essay, "How Poets Can Network for Success", Medium, December 1, https://medium.com/@wvancamp/how-poets-can-network-for-success-3c9d2507b76e
reading, “Sunday Spoken Word Open Mic featuring Wendy Van Camp”, Virtual Chelsea Hotel, Second Life, December 21st, 2025, https://virtualhotelchelsea.com/
Katherine Quevedo
2 poems, "El Grotesco" and "The Poison Dart Frog Prince," SpecPoVerse Vol. 1 Issue 3, December 31, 2025, https://specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-issue-3-2025
poem, reprint, "Ode on Keats's 'Ode on Indolence,'" The Hyacinth Review: Books & Literature, December 11, 2025, https://hyacinthreview.org/katherine-quevedo-ode-on-keatss-ode-on-indolence/
Richard Magahiz
poem, genre, "Resting atop the vanity", NewMyths.com #73, Winter 2025, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue73/issue-73-stories/atop-the-vanity
2 poems, genre, "[Nietzsche's mustache]" and "[a dollar for]", Five Fleas, 21 December 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/12/afternoon-of-december-21-2025.html
poem, genre, "Fly me back to the moon", SpecPoVerse Volume 1 Issue 3, 31 December 2025, https://specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-issue-3-2025
Anna Cates
poem, “Foiled,” Abyss & Apex #97, Jan 2026, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2026/01/foiled-by-anna-cates/
2 poems, “Piece of Meat” and “Biological Clock,” Contemporary Haibun Online 21.3, Dec. 2025, https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-21-3/haibun-21-3/anna-cates-piece-of-meat/ and https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-21-3/tanka-prose/anna-cates-biological-clock/
poem, “On the Plums, Eaten,” Drifting Sands #34, December 2025, https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Issue-34.pdf
Lisa Timpf
2 poems, non-spec, “At the Root” and “Even in Dark Times,” Transition, Fall/Winter 2025, https://sk.cmha.ca/transition-magazine-online/
3 poems, spec, [dragon in the studio], [final curtain call], and “A Mother Waits for News…,” Scifaikuest print, November 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-november-2025-1
poem, spec, “The Ghost Town of the Past,” NonBinary Issue 42: Erased From History, December 11, 2025, Zoetic Press, https://www.zoeticpress.com/branded-merch/p/nonbinary-review-issue-42-erased-from-history
2 poems, spec, “Some News Can Wait” and “Until We Go to Mars,” Jupiter’s Eye, December 2025, Hiraeth Publishing, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/jupiter-s-eye-december-2025