Award Winners

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

• Duane Ackerson • Taking Back the Moon • Strange Horizons 5/1/2006.
• Mary Alexandra Agner • Sleeping Beauty • Strange Horizons 11/13/06.
• Mike Allen • Bacchanal • Goblin Fruit. Autumn 2006.
• Mike Allen • Manifest Destiny • Helix 2, October 2006.
• Elizabeth Barrette • Beach Climbing • Strange Horizons 10/16/06.
• John Borneman • Love's Resistance—Crossing the Wheatstone Bridge • From The Asylum, February 2006.
• Bruce Boston • I Build Engines • Lone Star Stories 13, February 2006.
• Bruce Boston • In the Sweltering Ruins of the Old City • Shades Fantastic (Gromagon Press, 2006).
• Lida Broadhurst • To a Lover Dying Old • Mythic Delirium 15, Summer/Fall 2006.
• Kenneth B. Chiacchia • Casualty • On Our Way to Battle: Poetry From the Trenches, ed. Samantha Henderson (Carnifax Press, 2006).
• Jennifer Crow • When We Sent Our Poems into Space • Star*Line 29.1, Jan/Feb 2006.
• Malcolm Deeley • Two Cathedrals • Dragons, Knights & Angels 39, December 2006.
• James S. Dorr • The Edge Of The World • Balticon 40 Program Book, May 2006.
• Kendall Evans • Deepspace Meditation • Star*Line 29.6, Nov/Dec 2006.
• Robert Frazier • When Will Time Unfold • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.4, Spring 2006.
• Emily Gaskin • Women of the Resurrection • Goblin Fruit, Spring 2006.
• Joe Haldeman • god is dead short live god • Mythic 1, April 2006.
• Samantha Henderson • First Festival • Goblin Fruit, Summer 2006.
• K.J. Kirby • In All Probability • Strange Horizons 5/29/06.
• Deborah P Kolodji • As the Moon Loses Its Smile • Tales of the Talisman 2.3, Dec. 2006.
• David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Deborah P. Kolodji • The Spider Wakes • Star*Line 29.6, Nov/Dec 2006.
• John Edward Lawson • Demands of the Voluptuous Virginal Sacrifice • The Troublesome Amputee (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006).
• Ursula K. Le Guin • The Mute • Incredible Good Fortune (Shambhala Publications, 2006).
• Sandra Lindow • Dwarves • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.4, Spring 2006.
• Sandra Lindow • Touched by the Gods • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.4, Spring 2006.
• Robin Mayhall • [time stumbles sideways] • Scifaikuest 12, May 2006.
• Hosho McCreesh • Very Soon … • Blue Collar Review 10.1, Autumn 2006.
• Jaime Lee Moyer • Sir Once Forgotten • Star*Line 29.4, July/August 2006.
• Jaime Lee Moyer • Twilight • On Our Way to Battle: Poetry From the Trenches, ed. Samantha Henderson (Carnifax Press, 2006).
• Rich Ristow • The Graven Idol's Godheart • The Shantytown Anomaly 2, March 2006.
• William Sanders • The Last Madman • Helix 2, October 2006.
• Charles Saplak & Mike Allen • Template for a Fairy Tale • Weird Tales 340, June 2006.
• Lawrence Schimel • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole • Helix 3, Winter 2007 [published December 2006].
• Mirta Ana Schultz • Into the Heart • The Sword Review 16, July 2006.
• Ann Schwader • Spiral Scream • Strange Horizons 9/25/06.
• Julia Sevin • It will appear on your water and sewerage bill • Abyss & Apex 17, First Quarter 2006.
• Marge Simon • Saint Jefferson Then and Now • Illumen 2.2, Spring 2006.
• Sonya Taaffe • Ogygia • Not One of Us 36, November 2006.
• Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Spider Silk • Raven Electrick, September 2006.
• Jessica D. Thompson • a Wing and a Prayer • PanGaia 43, January–March 2006.
• JoSelle Vanderhooft • Pluto Contemplates His Next Career • Helix 3, Winter 2007 [published December 2006].
• Jo Walton • A Candlemass Poem • Lone Star Stories 13, February 2006.
• Ian Watson • Cobwebs in Heaven • Mythic Delirium 14, Winter/Spring 2006.
• Neal Wilgus • Disneyesque • Dreams and Nightmares 75, September 2006.
• Stephen M. Wilson • Frost Bitten • Dark Wisdom 10, November 2006.
• Stephen M. Wilson & Roger E. Naylor • Atom's Apple • Scifaikuest 13, August 2006.
• Elizabeth Jodi Woodward • Time Zones • 4th Dimension 11, September 2006.

Long Poems

• Duane Ackerson • Making Nothing Happen • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.4, Spring 2006,
• Danny Adams • Go Home From Bonnie Earth • Star*Line 29.3, May/June 2006,
• Mike Allen • The Journey to Kailash • Strange Horizons1/23/06.
• Mike Allen • The Psychic Above Burritoville • Strange Wisdoms of the Dead (Wildside Press, 2006).
• Mike Allen • Sisyphus Walks • Goblin Fruit, Spring 2006.
• Gregory Benford • Isaac from the Outside • Star*Line 29.3, May/June 2006..
• Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier • A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest • Strange Horizons 12/18/06.
• G. O. Clark • Spot in Space • Strange Horizons 3/20/06.
• James S. Dorr • The Drowned City • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 7.4, Spring 2006.
• Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel • In Wicked Hollows, On Darkling Plains • Asimov's Science Fiction 367, August 2006.
• Gary Every • Sakhmet the Destroyer • Tales of the Talisman 2.2, September 2006.
• John Giorno • There Was a Bad Tree • Van Gogh's Ear 5, 2006.
• Samantha Henderson • Sleepers • Dreams and Nightmares 75, September 2006.
• Samantha Henderson • Tinker • Abyss & Apex 17, First Quarter 2006.
• Samantha Henderson • Triptych: Three Views of the Capture of the City of Bisanthe • Lone Star Stories 15, June 2006.
• Deborah P Kolodji • Siren's Call • Mythic 2, October 2006.
• John Edward Lawson • Marvels of Horror • The Troublesome Amputee (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006).
• Isabel Pelech • Clock Function • Dreams and Nightmares 75, September 2006.
• Marsheila Rockwell • Pilate's Wife • The Sword Review 13, April 2006.
• J.C. Runolfson • Advent • The Sword Review 21, December 2006.
• Lawrence Schimel • Kristallnacht • Mythic 1, April 2006.
• Sonya Taaffe • Homecoming • Mythic 2, October 2006.
• Pamela K. Taylor • Foreign Thoughts • Star*Line 29.6, Nov/Dec 2006.
• Sheree Renée Thomas • Fallen • Strange Horizons 5/8/06.
• Mikal Trimm • Africa Screams • Mythic Delirium 14, Winter/Spring 2006.
• Mikal Trimm • Lost On the Shores of Avalon • Aeon 6, April 2006.
• Catherynne M. Valente • The Child Bride of the Lost City of Ubar • Journal of Mythic Arts, Summer/Autumn 2006.
• Catherynne M. Valente • The Descent of the Corn-Queen of the Midwest • Mythic Delirium 14, Winter/Spring 2006.
• Catherynne M. Valente • The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider • Mythic 1, April 2006.
• JoSelle Vanderhooft • The Minotaur's Last Letter to his Mother • Mythic Delirium 14, Winter/Spring 2006.
• JoSelle Vanderhooft • The Story of the River in the Desert • Star*Line 29.6, Nov/Dec 2006.
• Stephen M. Wilson • Phantasia! • Bondage: Tales of Obsession, ed. Tyree Campbell (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2006).