With my pumpkin:
All rendered down and ready to become pie, bread, or soup, I guess it's time to look back on October and see what the members of SFPA got up to during the month...
Mike
Michael H. Payne
poem, "A Ballade of Interstinal Flora," Dreams & Nightmares #128, Sept. 2024, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/100424c.html
4 poems, #1798 - 1801, Terebinth, Oct. 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20241007.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20241014.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20241021.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20241028.html
poem, "Tempest Tossed," Fimfiction, Oct. 2024, https://www.fimfiction.net/story/565286/tempest-tossed
Adele Gardner
poem, genre, print, "Pointy Things," Spaceports & Spidersilk, October 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-october-2024
2 poems, genre, "A Moonlit Dip on Halloween Night" and "Bones and Company Plays Point of the Bluff," Bluff & Vine, Issue Eight: In the Shadows, October 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJTCD1TK
L. Marie Wood
poem, "This House," Where the Silent Ones Watch, Hippocampus Press, October 1, 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/fiction/where-the-silent-ones-watch-edited-by-james-chambers
Peter Graarup Westergaard
2 poems, "Jesus" and "Plaster Saints", The Brussels Review, Autumn 2024, https://thebrusselsreview.com/admin/the-brussels-review-autumn-2024-is-here/
essay, "Love & Metaphysics", Philosophy Now Issue 164: October/November 2024, https://philosophynow.org/issues/164/Love_and_Metaphysics
Bryan Thao Worra
Hall of Fame induction, Foundation for Saline Area Schools, Michigan, October 11, 2024, https://thesuntimesnews.com/foundation-for-saline-area-schools-inducts-class-of-2024-hall-of-fame-honorees/
Jenny Thompson
poem, "The Man Who Dared to Court a Witch," Fairy Tale Magazine, Fall/Winter 2024, https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/the-man-who-dared-to-court-a-witch-by-jenny-thompson
Wendy Van Camp
editor, Eccentric Orbits 5, Dimensionfold Publishing, October 4th, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Anthology-Science-Fiction/dp/199839509X
2 poems, “Dragonette” & “Whale-SETI: a scifaiku series”, Eccentric Orbits 5, Dimensionfold Publishing, October 4th, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Anthology-Science-Fiction/dp/199839509X
2 essays, “Readercon 33: An Intimate Escape from Typical Sci-Fi Conventions” & “Worldcon 2024: Immerses Attendees in Science, Scottish Culture, and a Celebration of Speculative Fiction”, Indie Author Magazine, October 2024, https://indieauthormagazine.com/
reading, “Anaheim Central Open-Mic”, Anaheim Central Library, Anaheim, CA, October 3rd, 2024, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-mic-night-at-anaheim-central-library-tickets-699278188887
reading with Michael Bloom & Denise Dumars, “Casketeria”, The Dragon & The Rose, Santa Ana, CA, October 5th, 2024, https://www.thedragonandtherose.com/
reading, “Speculative Poetry Reading”, EagleCon, Cal State LA, with Denise Dumars, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Pedro Iniguez, & Bree Wernicke, October 16th, 2024, https://eagleconla.org
2 panels, “Every Word Matters: Using Poetry Concepts to Enrich your Prose” and “Biology and Women: Avatar, Dune, and Black Panther with Kate Johnston, Joan Slonczewski, & Haerin (Helen) Shin”, Speculative Fiction Across Media Conference, Courtyard Los Angeles Monterery Park Hotel, October 18th, 2024, https://sfamla.org
host, “SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open-Mic”, SFWA, featuring Sumiko Saulson, October 26th, 2024, https://events.sfwa.org/upcoming-events/
Angela Acosta
poem, "First Sojourn," Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2024, https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2024/first-sojourn-by-angela-acosta/
poem, "Skating Velocity," Eccentric Orbits #5, Fall 2024. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/199839509X
Colleen Anderson
collection, Weird Worlds, Weird House Publishing, Sept. 2024, https://weirdhousepress.com/products/weird-worlds-by-colleen-anderson
poem, "Radium Girls," Newmyths.com #68, Sep. 2024, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-68/issue-68-stories/radium-girls
poem, "Battle of the Sexless," Bestiary of Blood, Oct. 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Blood-Modern-Fables-Tales-ebook/dp/B0DF7RSV2K
poem, "Shifting Perspectives," Weird Fiction Quarterly, Oct. 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLNR62ZS
poem, "Fruiting Bodies," Journ-E 3.2, Oct. 2024, https://www.lulu.com/shop/frank-coffman/journ-e-the-journal-of-imaginative-literature-vol-3-no-2/paperback/product-rm829jz.html?
poem, "A Little Horror," Witch House #4, Oct. 2024, https://witchhousemag.blogspot.com/2024/10/witch-house-4-now-available.html
G. O. Clark
poem, "The Ufologist Smokes His Pipe", Aphelion, Oct. 2024. https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/sections/editorial.html
Linda D. Addison
poem, “The Large Reckoning,” Bestiary of Blood, Crystal Lake Publishing, October 15, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Blood-Modern-Fables-Tales-ebook/dp/B0DF7RSV2K
Sumiko Saulson
commentary on poem, "Commentary on 'To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth' by Phillis Wheatley," Shadows & Verse: Classic Dark Poems with Celebrity Commentary, Wordfire Press Classics, October 15, 2024, https://wordfirepress.com/products/shadows-verse-classic-dark-poems-with-celebrity-commentary
Frank Coffman
poem, "The Pallid Masque," Weird Fiction Quarterly: Masquerade 2024, Oct. 2024, https://weirdfictionquarterly.com/table-of-contents-masquerade-2024/
Pixie Bruner
poem, “Crash Landing Aria 1”, Space & Time Magazine #147, Fall/Winter 2024, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DK2BY1SD
poem, “Dandelions in Concrete Canyons”, miniMAG #121: Camelot on the Hill, Oct. 2024, https://minimag.substack.com/p/camelot-on-the-hill
Robert Frazier
poem, "When I Heard the Learn’d Astrophysicist" Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Nov./Dec. 2024, https://www.analogsf.com/current-issue/table-of-contents/
Brian U. Garrison
poem, print, "Before the Beginning", Even Cozier Cosmic, Underland Press, October 2024, https://firebirdcreative.myshopify.com/products/the-even-cozier-cosmic
Christopher Sartin
poem, "Turning the Page," Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. XI, Authortunities Press, October 14, 2024, https://a.co/d/4TX1nVg
Ken Poyner
poem, non-genre, web, “Display”, Mad Swirl, October 2024, https://madswirl.com/blog/2024/10/the-best-of-mad-swirl-10-05-24/
A J Dalton
poem, "Spaceways and Byways", Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #96, Q3 2024, https://andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-96/
poem, "'Andy' to Its Friends", Consilience Journal #18, Sept. 2024, https://www.consilience-journal.com/issue-18-andy-to-its-friends
poem, "We Will Become Mars", Carmina Magazine, September 2024, http://carminamagazine.com/we-will-become-mars.html
Ruth Berman
poem, non-genre, "Big Cat Games," The American Jewish world, October 2024, https://www.ajwnews.com/
poem, genre, "Narcissus by the Pool," Dreams and Nightmares #128, September 2024, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/100424c.html
Marisca Pichette
poem, "firestarter," Kaleidotrope Autumn 2024, October 2024, https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2024/firestarter-by-marisca-pichette/
Keech Ballard
poem, "War is Hell," Low Hanging Fruit, September 26, 2024, https://www.fruithanginglow.com/post/war-is-hell-by-keech-ballard
Akua Lezli Hope, Linda Addison, Miguel Mitchell, and Jacqueline Johnson
reading, Black Poetry Day, October 17, 2024, https://www.facebook.com/1123359710/videos/1201605654471780/
Akua Lezli Hope
poem, nongenre, "Expanding Our Knowing" NewVerse News, October 29, 2024, https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/10/expanding-our-knowing.html
poem, “Melissa”, Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables and Dark Tales, Crystal Lake Publishing, October 7, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Bestiary-Blood-Modern-Fables-Tales/dp/1964398215/
2 poems, non-genre, "To Fight and Pray” and "Collateral Damag”, About Place Journal: Shaping Destiny Before, During and After, October 1, 2024 https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/shaping-destiny/before/akua-lezli-hope/
3 poems, "Carnivora’s Spring”, "Andromedan Spring” and "Weeping Walker”, Nature Triumphs, September 2024 https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Triumphs-Anthology-Speculative-Literature-ebook/dp/B0DDDQ48LT
2 readings and 4 panels, "Afrofuturism and the AfroFantastic", "Chronic Disability", "Sustainable Community Development," and "How to Read Online", Flights of Foundry, September 2024, https://flights-of-foundry.org/
poem, "Giant Robot and His Person”, FIYAH #31: Disability, Summer 2024, https://fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/2024-issues/fiyah-31-disability/
2 readings for Speculative Poetry Month, November 10, 2024, with Mary Soon Lee, Brandon O’Brien, and Vivian Faith Prescott, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-sundays-readings-for-speculative-poetry-month-tickets-782966974297 and https://www.facebook.com/events/330144039828105 and November 24, 2024, with Denise Dumars, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, and Jenna Le, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-sundays-readings-for-speculative-poetry-month-tickets-782968669367 and https://www.facebook.com/events/755108236062083
3 halloween horror haiku, Halloween Haiku Challenge 2024, second place winner, “Halloween terror”, https://halloweenhorrorhaiku.com/
Ennis Bashe, Akua Lezli Hope, Herb Kauderer, and John C. Mannone
reading for Disability Awareness Day, July 14, 2024, https://www.facebook.com/AkuaLezli/videos/8372868526077526/
Lisa Timpf
poem, spec, “As for the Spoon,” Dreams & Nightmares #128, September 2024, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/
3 poems, spec, “Fantastic Yoga Sessions,” “Isn't Technology Wonderful,” and “A Touch of Home,” Eccentric Orbits 5, Dimensionfold Publishing, October 2024, https://dimensionfold.com/catalog/poetry-books/eccentric-orbits/
poem, non-spec, “[no pleading or parental scolding],” runner-up, Saturday Evening Post July/August 2024 Limerick Laughs contest, posted October 28, 2024, https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/10/july-august-2024-limerick-laughs-winner-and-runners-up/
Katherine Quevedo
poem, "Peter Pumpkin Eater's Most Delectable Carving," HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. XI, October 14, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/1959048279
reading and presentation, "Katherine Quevedo Reading" and "Devils in the Details," OryCon 44, October 19-20, 2024, https://orycon44.sched.com/
reading, Horror Authors Book Party, Beaverton City Library, October 26, 2024, https://beavertonlibrary.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=23753
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
interview by Tarsia Kim, Book Jewel, October 26, 2024, https://bookjewel.blogspot.com/2024/10/embracing-shadows-interview-with-poet.htm
spotlight, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, Reedsy Discovery, October 4, 2024, https://reedsy.com/discovery
Reedsy reviews, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/always-haunted-hallowe-en-poems-lindaann-loschiavo/user-reviews/always-haunted-hallowe-en-poems-adalat-ali & https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/always-haunted-hallowe-en-poems-lindaann-loschiavo/user-reviews/always-haunted-hallowe-en-poems-a-look-inside-reviews-interviews
Amazon reviews, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, https://www.amazon.com/Always-Haunted-Halloween-LindaAnn-LoSchiavo/product-reviews/1958531731/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm
Goodread reviews, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6918052270 & https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6944243196
review, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, Erin Al-Mehari, A Hook of a Book, October 4, 2024, https://hookofabook.wordpress.com/2024/10/04/always-haunted-halloween-poems-is-a-perfect-collection-for-the-season/
review, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, Jodie Crump, Witty and Sarcastic Book Club, October 23, 2024, https://wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/2024/10/23/book-review-always-haunted-halloween-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
review, Vampire Ventures, Alien Buddha Zine #67, September 25, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHZXJDK7
3 poems, "Lunar Beast," "Wolfsbane," and "Wolfish Girl," The Horror Zine, October 2024, https://thehorrorzine.com/Poetry/Oct2024/LindaAnnLoSchiavo/LindaAnnLoSchiavo.html
poem, non-genre, “Fire Without Witness”, Discretionary Love, October 1, 2024, https://www.discretionarylove.com/fire-without-witness/
3 poems, “Poe and the Women,” “Annabel Lee Breaks Her Silence by the Sea," and “Lady Madeline Usher’s Revenge”, Evermore 4, Ravens Quoth Press, October 7, 2024, https://books2read.com/TRQP-Evermore-4
5 poems, "Jayne Mansfield Explains Why The Girl Can’t Help It," "Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir," "Lon Chaney, Jr. and the Wolf Man’s Curse," "The Ghost of Texas Guinan," and "Mae West and the Spirit of Collaboration," Creativity Webzine Hollywood issue, October 7, 2024, https://moultoniancreativity.weebly.com/creative-writing.html
2 poems, "Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, Cemetery Superstar" and "Hetty Green, the Witch of Wall Street,” Quail Bell: The Unreal, October 9, 2024, http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/poetry-hetty-green-the-witch-of-wall-street-by-lindaann-loschiavo & http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/poetry-elizabeth-siddal-rossetti-cemetery-superstar-by-lindaann-loschiavo
3 poems, "Nonet: Transformed", "The Wolf Man and the Sex Trafficker", and "Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise", Black Petals #109, October 15, 2024, https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue76/id81.html, https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue76/id82.html & https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue76/id83.html
Richard Magahiz
3 poems, genre, "slow down why don't you?," "Our lady of a thousand beaches," and "First-hand testimony", Lothlorien Poetry Journal, 4 October 2024, https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2024/10/three-poems-by-richard-magahiz.html
3 poems, genre, "Oxygen Way," "Statement by the artist," and "Hiram drops the plumb line", Eccentric Orbits 5, Dimensionfold Publishing, https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/199839509X
3 poems, genre, "[fumbling at my front door]," "[train like hell]," and "[from their seafloor abbey]", Five Fleas, October 22, 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/10/afternoon-of-october-22-2024.html
Anna Cates
poem, “What the Moon is Made of,” Voice of the Moon, Water Penny Press, Oct 2024, https://www.waterpenny.press/voice-of-the-moon
haiku, Modern Haiku 55:3, Autumn 2024, https://www.modernhaiku.org/issue55-3/index.html
haiku, Frogpond 47:3, Autumn 2024, https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2024-issue47-3/index.html
2 tanka, Ribbons 20.2, fall/winter 2024, https://www.amazon.com/RIBBONS-Fall-Winter-2024-Number/dp/B0DH3LDMTY
poem, “Great American”, and 2 haiku, Ex Libris Volume 48, Issue #2 Fall 2024, https://www.facebook.com/YellowSpringsLibraryAssociation
Mary Soon Lee
2 poems, "Elf Ring" & "After the Dragon Died," Dreams and Nightmares #128, September 2024, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/10/100424c.html
Jean-Paul L. Garnier
2 poems, "imbibing with the spirits" & "Equalizer," Eccentric Orbits Vol.5, Dimensionfold Publishing, Fall 2024, https://dimensionfold.com/catalog/poetry-books/eccentric-orbits/
Lori R. Lopez
spotlight on The Strange Tail of Oddzilla, Booklife, September 30, 2024, https://booklife.com/books/09/30/2024/indie-spotlight-children-s-picture-books.html
poem, genre, “the cellar”, Shunned Houses, WordCrafts Press, September 21, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Shunned-Houses-Anthology-Weird-Essays/dp/1962218597
poem, genre, “room with a view”, Aphelion Webzine, October 2024, http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2024/10/202410LopezRoomWithAView.html
Silvatiicus Riddle
poem, "Walking The September Rim", The Goblin's Reliquary, September 1, 2024, https://substack.com/home/post/p-148351917
Ian Hunter
reading, “Selkie”, “Uncomfortable Slasher Film Comfort Breaks”, “We All Live in a Yellow Caravan” and “Something Down the Dark Alley Looks Like Elvis”, Fantasycon, Chester, UK, Oct 2024, https://britishfantasysociety.org/fantasycon-2024/
Kim Malinowski
poem, “Midnight Chase,” The Fairy Tale Magazine, Fall 2024, https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/midnight-chase-by-kim-malinowski
Kimberly Kuchar
horrorku, "rolling fog," Haikuniverse, October 31, 2024, https://haikuniverse.com/halloween-haiku-17-of-25-by-kimberly-kuchar/
rengay, "What's Left," Heterodox Haiku: The Body Politic, Linked Forms, October 2024, https://t.co/wbfSCQviPL
2 horrorku, "singing a song" and "deserted mini-golf," Horror Senryu Journal, August 30, 2024, https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/2024/08/kimberly-kuchar.html
haiku, "Old Hall," Five Fleas, Evening of October 30, 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/10/evening-of-october-30-2024.html?m=1
Alan Vincent Michaels
poem and drink recipe, "“Dark ’n’ Ion Stormy” Dreams", SciFanSat Issue 15: Night, October 26, 2024, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_15_Night_10-26-2024.pdf
E.F. Schraeder
poem, "In Her Hand a Plum," Alien Buddha Zine #67, October 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Buddha-Zine-67-standard/dp/B0DHZXJDK7
Peter Payack and Jessica Lucci
poem, "Post Free Will/Environmental Deterministic Wedding Vows," The Little Crepe Cafe, October 18, 2024, https://www.littlecrepecafe.com
Denise Dumars
poem, “The Pale Girl,” Space & Time Magazine #147, Fall/Winter 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959048260
poem, “Everything That Scares You”, HWA Poetry Showcase IX, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/1959048279