Another October:

     That saw me failing to wear a pumpkin over my head for more than a few hours at a time. Well, maybe next year! Still, here's some of what the members of SFPA got up to in addition to wearing their own pumpkin heads.

                           Mike

Sumiko Saulson

     poem, "The Haunted Streets of San Francisco," Journey Planet Issue #91: San Francisco, October 8, 2025, https://www.journeyplanet.org/journey-planet/issue-91-san-francisco

Ken Anderson

     poem, “One Pleasant Summer after Lunch,” Sage Cigarettes Magazine Vol. 3, Issue 2: Stargazer, Fall 2025, https://sagecigarettes.com/stargazer-2025/

Ian Li

     poem, "Hotel for the Dead," Orion's Belt, August 30, 2025, https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/hotel-for-the-dead

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

     poem, “I Know What Kind of Monster You Can Be When the Moon is Full” Corvid Queen, October 3, 2025, https://corvidqueen.com/stories/i-know-what-kind-of-monster-juleigh-howard-hobson

     Pushcart Nomination for the poem “Aisle 4”, TV-63, McGee Pub, announced October 3, 2025, https://x.com/PoetForest/status/1974179783178399829

     poem, “It’s Not A Game to the Dead”, HWA Showcase XII, Horror Writers Association, Oct 5, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/B0FTZK71BG\

     poem, non genre, “Of Course” , Tough Poets Review, Oct 5, 2025, https://www.toughpoets.com/review.htm

     poem, non-genre, “Despite Our Best Efforts” Telephone, Oct 10, 2025, https://telephonegame.art/artists/juleigh-howard-hobson

     3 poems, “What I Learned Growing Up About Due Diligence: a Spell For The Reversal Of Bad Luck”, “No, She Didn’t Teach Me How To Bake Cookies, My Grandmother Showed Me How to Make Someone See Red (When It Is To Their Detriment To Do So)”, “My Grandmother’s Dog Your Days Charm (or: How to Make a Poppet That Will Cause Disruption in an Enemy’s Life),” Blood Lore, White Stag Press, Oct 15, 2025, https://whitestagpublishing.com/poetry-books-1/p/bloodlore-a-white-stag-anthology-of-bloodlines-myth-pre-order

     poem “I Can Do Nearly All the Magic I Used to Do, But I Do Miss Having Thumbs Instead of Paws”, Elsewhere Journal, The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow, October 19, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1050090423805580&set=a.468598455288116

Robert Frazier

     poem, "Anning," Dreams & Nightmares #131, Sept. 2025, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/09/091125.html

     poem, "Field Note from an Outlier Physicist," Asimov's SF, Nov./Dec 2025, https://asimovs.com/current-issue/table-of-contents/

Michael H. Payne

     4 poems, #1850 - 1853, Terebinth, Oct. 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251006.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251013.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251020.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20251027.html

Wendy Van Camp

     poem, “Rockets Over Anaheim”, Anaheim Poetry Review, October 22, 2025, https://anaheimpoetry.com/apr-volume-3

     poem, “A Writer’s Life”, Ohio: The Body Poetic, River Roots Poets, October 2025, https://midd.me/aspt

     essay, “10 Proven Ways Indie Authors Can Hit Daily Word Counts While Writing at Conferences”, Indie Author Magazine, October 2025, https://indieauthormagazine.com/10-proven-ways-indie-authors-can-hit-daily-word-counts-while-writing-at-conferences/

     essay, “How to Use Sensory Details to Bring Your Writing to Life”, Medium, October 2, 2025, https://medium.com/p/dd9e7023b46e

     chapbook, Every Word Matters: Poetry Concepts To Enrich Your Prose, Indigoskye Press, October 2, 2025, https://indigoskye.com/index.php/product/every-word-matters/

Deborah L. Davitt

     poem, spec, "Altamura Man," Reader Beware Magazine, September 30, 2025, https://readerbewaremag.itch.io/reader-beware-2025

     poem, spec, "A Library of Lost Souls," Teach. Write, October 3, 2025. https://teachwritejournal.com/current-issue/

     poem, spec, "The Planet's Darkside," HWA Showcase XII, October 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/B0FTZK71BG/

     2 poems, lit and spec, "On Warp and Woof," and "Aurochs," The Sunlight Press, October 21, 2025, https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2025/10/21/poetry-by-deborah-davitt/

     poem, spec, "The Famulus," 4LPH4NUM3R1C #6, October 25, 2025, https://www.zoeticpress.com/an-06-vexatious-verse

Ruth Berman

     poem, "Quest," Blue Unicorn, Fall 2025, https://blueunicorn.org/

Colleen Anderson

     poem, "Needs of the Many," Newmyths.com #72, Sep. 2025, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-72/issue-72-stories/the-needs-of-the-many?authuser=0

     haiku, "finally happy," Amazing Stories, Sep. 2025, https://amazingstories.com/2025/09/finally-happy/

     poem, "Tempestuous," Orange and Bee, Sep. 2025, https://theorangebee.substack.com/p/tempestuous?publication_id=1929603&post_id=165274015&isFreemail=false&r=4z11c&triedRedirect=true

     poem, "Eugenics in the Modern Era," HWA Poetry Showcase XII, Oct. 2025, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold-ebook/dp/B0FTY9LNG7

     poem, "Corn God Revival," Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 3, Oct. 2025, https://www.amazon.ca/Years-Canadian-Fantasy-Science-Fiction-ebook/dp/B0FRKB1BT4/

     poem, nongenre, "Finish Line," Literary Hatchet #40, Oct. 2025, https://lizzieandrewborden.com/literaryhatchet/product/literary-hatchet-40-double-issue/

     interview for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Pixel Project, Oct. 2025, https://www.thepixelproject.net/2025/10/13/read-for-pixels-2025-interview-colleen-anderson/

     interview by Stephanie Wytowich for Vellum Leaves and Lettered Skins, Madhouse Review, Oct. 2025, https://stephaniemwytovich.substack.com/p/author-interview-colleen-anderson?r=c7pun&triedRedirect=true

Angela Acosta

     poem, "Faraday Cage," Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine vol. 2 Issue 1, October 2025, https://www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12poetry.html

     review of The 2025 Rhysling Anthology, Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine vol. 2 Issue 1, October 2025, https://www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12articles.html

Robert Borski

     poem, “Bedazzled,” Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/bedazzled-by-robert-borski/

A J Dalton

     collection, Green Man Ascendant, Wild Man of the Woods Press, https://www.amazon.com/Green-Man-Ascendant-J-Dalton/dp/B0FWBY7XKP

     poem, “Gretel”, Gramarye Journal #28, Winter 2025, https://www.sussexfolktalecentre.org/portfolio/gramarye-28/

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

     collection, Cancer Courts My Mother, Prolific Pulse Press, November 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1962374645/

     erasure poem, "The Crossing", Meat for Tea Vol. 19, Issue 3: Faux, October 2, 2025, https://meatfortea.com/buy.htm

     2 poems, "My Mother's Ghost Started Dancing" and "Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir", Black Poppy Review, October 7, 2025, https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-mothers-ghost-started-dancing.html

     poem, non-genre, "Disarming Mekong Delta", Line of Advance, October 8, 2025, https://www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/10/6/disarming-mekong-delta

     2 poems, "Prospecting" and "Ligeia's Unholy Tomb", Evermore 5, The Ravens Quoth Press, October 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Evermore-5-Ravens-Quoth-Press/dp/B0FTF5CY43/

     3 poems, "Embodiment," "A Ghosts Visits a Tattoo Parlor," and "When Carmilla Returns, Styria is Different", Exquisite Death, October 2025, https://www.exquisitedeathezine.com/when-carmilla-returns-styria-is-different-by-lindaann-loschiavo.html

     5 poems, mixed genres, "After Lam Doy Died," " My Mother’s Ghost Dancing," "Grandpa Umberto’s Fig Trees," "Acapulco by Night," and "Bats at Bedtime", Chewers, October 14, 2025, https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/5-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo/

     4 poems, "One Night by the Hangman’s Tree", "During Happy Hour at the Undead Lounge", "Come Softly to Me" and "Lady Ligeia ― Redux", Beautiful Tragedies Vol. 4, HellBoundBooks, October 27, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1966296185

Kate Boyes

     poem, "POW Camp, Day 638," Larina's Lit Lounge #27, October 19, 2025, https://larinawrites.substack.com/p/larinas-lit-lounge-issue-27

Ann K. Schwader

     poem, "Iphigenia, After," 12th Annual HWA Poetry Showcase, Horror Writers Association, Oct. 2025, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/B0FTZK71BG

     poem, "Dark Comets," Penumbra #6, Oct. 2025, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/penumbra/penumbra-no.-6-autumn-2025

Katherine Quevedo

     poem, "I Write a Rite of Pyrite," HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. XII, Horror Writers Association, October 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/B0FTZK71BG

     panels and kaffeeklatsch, "Writing Beyond the Basics," "Katherine Quevedo Kaffeeklatsch," and "Pacing Your Story," OryCon 45, October 17-19, 2025, https://orycontemp.tezhme.net/

     reading, Horror Authors Book Party, Beaverton City Library, October 25, 2025, https://www.beavertonlibrary.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=25797

Richard Magahiz

     poem, genre, "Ode to a syringe", Dreams and Nightmares #131, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/09/091125.html

     3 poems, genre, "[deli fresh]," "[it is all rotten]," and "[as flesh and metal]", Five Fleas, 10 October 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/10/evening-of-october-10-2025.html

     poem, genre, "The spellbinder", Penumbric vol ix, issue 3, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/magahizSpellbinder.html

     3 poems, genre, "[mass … shame]," "[up up]," and "[butter plates]", smols, 16 October 2025, https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/up-up-where-oxygen-howls-richard.html

Elizabeth R. McClellan

     poem, spec, "Patient 10642," Salon Sinister 1, Summer 2025 https://www.salonsinister.com/

     poem, spec, "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To," Brainrot, Fifth Wheel Press, Summer 2025, https://fifthwheelpress.com/brainrot

     poem, spec, "Scylla and Charybdis Call and Respond," Triangulation: Dark Hearts, Parsec Ink, September 25, 2025, https://www.parsecink.org/shop/p/dark-hearts

Randy Brown

     editor, Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems & Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters, Middle West Press LLC, Oct. 7, 2025, https://www.middlewestpress.com/2025/10/now-on-sale-cryptids-kaiju-corn.html

G. O. Clark

     2 poems, "Safe Driving Tip" & "Quantum Omelets", Dreams & Nightmares #131, Sept. 2025, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/order.htm

     poem, "Jack The Ripper", ParAbnormal Magazine, September 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/parabnormal-magazine-september-2020-edited-by-h-david-blalock

Clarabelle Miray Fields

     poetry performance with Operation Doomsday, Kaiju Bar in Louisville, KY, November 8, 2025, https://www.instagram.com/p/DPblQGOjXTQ/?igsh=ZHY1aG0wd29kaWF3

     interview, "An Interview with Clarabelle Miray Fields", Vinegar Issue One, Vinegar Press, October 2025, https://www.vinegarpress.org/issue-one

     editor, Carmina Magazine, September 2025, http://carminamagazine.com/sept-2025.html

     poem, "The Watcher in the Dark", Chewers' Thinning of the Veil Halloween Series, September 2025, https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/the-watcher-in-the-dark-by-clarabelle-fields/

     poem, "Psyche's Rose Garden", Collaborature, September 2025, https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/09/psyche-rose-garden-cf.html?q=psyche%27s+rose+garden

     poem, "last sunrise on titan", The Alien Buddha Gets Isolated and Weird, Alien Buddha Press, September 2025, https://alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/from-the-alien-buddha-gets-isolated-and-weird-last-sunrise-on-titan-by-clarabelle-miray-fields/ and https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Buddha-Gets-Isolated-Weird/dp/B0FQD6P6JC/

David Lee Summers

     poem, "Sailing Winds Made of Light," Project Abeona, 24 October 2025, https://projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmission-36-sailing-winds-made

Pixie Bruner

     newsletter editor/art/introduction/speculative poetry/prose submission calls, Memento Mori Ink, October 2025, https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/newsletter

     2 poems, “Speculative Love Poem” and "Swimming," Pixie Bruner’s Substack https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/new-poetry and https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/swimming

     poem, "Glow The Hell Up”, The Pink Hydra Issue 5, https://www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0202202510/glowthehell/

     3 poems, “Entremets Sans Subtleties”, “On Actaeon” and “The Caveat Emptorium”, Black Poppy Review, Oct 2025, https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2025/10/entremets-sans-subtleties-by-pixie.html?m=1 and https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-actaeon-caveat-emptorium-by-pixie.html?m=1

     2 readings, Bi-Weekly Open Mic Night, Poetry and Book Excerpt Readings, Authortunities, September, 28, 2025 and October 12, 2025, https://authortunities.substack.com

Sandra Bond

     poetry collection, The Goblin Muse, The Canal Press, October 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Goblin-Muse-Sandra-Bond/dp/B0FS1W19KH

Richard Groller

     poem, “The Memory of Her Demise”, Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Volume XII, Horror Writers Association, October 4, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold-ebook/dp/B0FTY9LNG7

Marisca Pichette

     poem, "What the Unicorn's Horn Feels," Our Dearest Devotions, Haunted Words Press, July 2025, https://hauntedwordspress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-our-dearest-devotions

     poem, "snapshots viewed through the stasis pod window," Just Keep Up Magazine, August 2025, https://www.justkeepupmagazine.com/snapshots-viewed-through-the-stasis-pod-window-by-marisca-pichette

     3 poems, "Auragami," "The Fin Stitch," "elegy to a meadow," This Exquisite Topology, Angry Gable Press, August 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCM8XQB

     poem, "fritillary frigate," Radon Journal, Issue 11, October 2025, https://www.radonjournal.com/issue-11/fritillary-frigate

     poem, "Let the net grow far and deep," Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, October 2025, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/pichetteNet.html

upfromsumdirt

     poetry collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife, University Press of Kentucky, Oct. 14, 2025, https://www.kentuckypress.com/9781985903456/the-shoes-of-the-fishermans-wife/

Anna Cates

     haiku, “At the Ruins of Sarpedon,” Abyss & Apex, Sept. 22, 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/09/at-the-ruins-of-sarpedon/

     poem, “The Soul on Rivers,” Anthology of River Roots Poets 2025, Ohio Poetry Association, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wOUQ-zI5m2PBx5CHQPvy5wbRYbVeGBuy/view

     haiku & 1 poem, “November Haibun,” Chrysanthemum 35, October 15, 2025, http://www.chrysanthemum-haiku.net/media/Chrysanthemum_35.pdf

     tanka, Laurels #4, 2025, https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/laurels/laurels-4

     haiku, sunryu, tanka & 2 poems, “Absolution” & “November Snow,” Cattails #252, October 2025 http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails252.pdf

     haiku, Presence 82, July 2025, https://haikupresence.org/presence-82/

     haiku, Modern Haiku 56.3, Autumn 2025, https://www.modernhaiku.org/

     2 tanka & 1 poem "Out, Out—," Ribbons 21.2, Fall/Winter 2025, https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/ribbons

Ken Poyner

     poem, non-genre, “Connection”, Indefinite Space Volume XXXIII, www.indefinitespace.net

W. Tracy Dillon

     3 poems, "Devoured," "Lilitu," and "Satan," Rawhead: A Journal of Art and Literature, Special Issue #1 Bloody Bones, Fall 2025, https://rawheadjournal.org/rawhead-presents-bloody-bones-special-issue-1/w-tracy-dillon/.

Gary Every

     teaching a seminar, "Writing Science Fiction Poetry", Yavapai College, Nov 4th and 5th, 2025, https://www.yc.edu/v6/lifelong-learning/olli-sedona-verde/docs/olli-catalog.pdf

Paul Deane

     editor, Forgotten Ground Regained #8, Fall 2025, https://alliteration.net/current-issue/

Sarah Grace Tuttle

     poem, "When Found in the Sun, a Monster," The Pink Hydra, October 2025, https://www.thepinkhydra.com/issues/0202202510/foundinthesun/

Draco Amethystus

     collection, The Phoenix Knight, June 2025, https://mybook.to/C0CGRy5

Lisa Timpf

     poem, spec, “My House on Mars,” Spaceports and Spidersilk, October 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-october-2025

     poem, spec, “She Does Not Look Back,” The Lorelei Signal, October-December 2025 issue, https://www.loreleisignal.com/she-dies-not-look-back

     review of I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis, The Seaboard Review of Books, October 27, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/ill-get-right-on-it-poems-on-working-life-in-the-climate-disaster

M. Frost

     poem, "Museum at the End of the World," Orion's Belt," September 2025, https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/museum-at-the-end-of-the-world

     poem, non-genre, "Cow Intellect" (for Jane Goodall), Poets for Science, October 2025, https://poetsforscience.org/cow-intellect/

     2 poems, non-genre, "Greta" and "Three Haiku," Sustainability Magazine, Fall 2025, https://online.fliphtml5.com/kjjrh/ezao/

Nico Martinez Nocito

     poem, "To the Swallow's Final Hatchling," Orion's Belt, August 2025, https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/to-the-swallows-final-hatchling

     poem, "Halloween Nights," Spaceports and Spidersilk, October 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-october-2025

Mary Soon Lee

     poem, non-genre, "Andy Warhol's Many Cats," Uppagus #70, October 2025, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-andy/

Lauren Scharhag

     collection, A Food Court in Hell, November 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTMSL4LF

     4 poems, "Imping," "Anting," "Plastic Flamingos," and "Blackbird Trapped," Bards of a Feather: Wings of Golden Syllables, Volume 2, June 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCD71762

     3 poems, "Semantics," "Expulsion," and "Ozark Mountain Christmas," Lilomul Journal, June 2025, https://lilomuljournal.wixsite.com/home/semantics, https://lilomuljournal.wixsite.com/home/expulsion & https://lilomuljournal.wixsite.com/home/ozark-mountain-christmas

     poem, "Hades and Persephone's Pillow Talk," The Gyroscope Review, Summer Issue, July 2025, https://www.gyroscopereview.com/2025/07/summer-2025-issue/

     poem, "Imping," The Woodside Review, July 2025, https://thewoodsidereview.substack.com/p/imping

Steph Patterson

     4 poems, “Devour Me,” “My Love, My Bloody Mary,” “Drained,” and “In Another Life,” The Alien Buddha Loves You Too, Alien Buddha Press, August 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLVTCQFH

     poem, “Quiet,” The Alien Buddha Gets Isolated and Weird, Alien Buddha Press, September 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQD6P6JC

     poem, “Entering the Haunted Manor of My Chronically Ill Body,” daylight and tenfold orioles, K Weber, October 2025, https://kweberandherwords.com/2025/10/29/daylight-tenfold-orioles-2025/

     poem, “Extraterrestrial,” HNDL Magazine: HNDL W/ Caution, October 2025, https://heyzine.com/flip-book/294aad4ba6.html

Akua Lezli Hope

     host, Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series, November 9, 16 & 23, 2025, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-sundays-poetry-reading-for-speculative-poetry-month-tickets-1268494975619?aff=ebdssbdestsearch, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-sundays-poetry-reading-for-speculative-poetry-month-tickets-1268505838109?aff=ebdssbdestsearch, & https://www.eventbrite.com/e/speculative-sundays-poetry-reading-for-speculative-poetry-month-tickets-1268507553239?aff=erelpanelorg

Frank Coffman

     poem, “The Galdrmaþer Weaves an Evil Spell,” Forgotten Ground Regained, Fall 2025, https://alliteration.net/poetry/the-galdrmadhr-weaves-an-evil-spell/

Allan Rozinski

     3 poems, “Dispelling Some Assumptions About Witches,” "The Mutant Strain," and "Tumbleweeds," The Horror Zine Magazine, Fall 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM8453H4

Sumiko Saulson, Emily Loretta Flummox, and The Mysterious Backup

     chapbook, Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus, Dooky Zines, October 2025, https://dookyzines.com/2025/10/28/doodooality-shots-from-uranus/

Mahaila Smith

     chapbook, After All This Hurt, Bywords, October 14, 2025, https://www.bywords.ca/wm/index.php?Store

     2 poems, "This supposed immortality," & "After All this Loss," Low Hanging Fruit Magazine Issue 3: Fall 2025, October 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FT8B8D61