Anthology Information
Editors and Rhysling Chairs:
David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Brian U. Garrison
Book Design: F.J. Bergmann
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Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association

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All Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: “No One Now Remembers” • Geoffrey A. Landis • Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December
Second Place: “Language as a Form of Breath” • Angel Leal • Apparition Lit 10/18
Third Place: “The Day We All Died, A Little” • Lisa Timpf • Raond Journal 5
Honorable Mention: “Let Us Dream” • Myna Chang • Small Wonders 3
Honorable Mention: “As Does the Crow” • Beth Cato • Uncanny 53
Honorable Mention: “Mass-Market Affair” • Casey Aimer • Star*Line 46.4
Long Poem Category
First Place: “Little Brown Changeling” • Lauren Scharhag • Aphelion 283
Second Place: “The Witch Makes Her To-Do List” • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 50
Third Place: “An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis” • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons, 11/6
Honorable Mention: “Pilot” • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Joy Unbound, eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
Honorable Mention: “Cradling Fish” • Laura Ma • Strange Horizons, 5/29
Honorable Mention: “Archivist of a Lost World” • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4
Editor and Juror Biographies
Editors

David C. Kopaska-Merkel won the 2006 Rhysling award (long poem, written with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986). His poems have been published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and more than 200 other venues. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark poetry, was published in 2022. @DavidKMresists on CS. Blog:
https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/

Brian U. Garrison has been a member of the SFPA since 2012. His poetry has waited at a bus stop in Montpelier, Vermont, popped out of a vending machine in Boston, Massachusetts, traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (among other cities) aboard Asimov's Science Fiction, and orbited Mars aboard NASA's MAVEN mission. Fifty of his poems are squeezed into his chapbook New Yesterdays, New Tomorrows. Look for him in Portland, Oregon where you might catch him eating vegan donuts
Short Poem Category Jurors
M.C. Childs’ poetry has appeared in many magazines. “Tin-Head Soliloquy” (2018) and “Ophir, Coloardo” (2019) each were awarded second place in the SFPA poetry competition. Prof. Childs’ award-winning urban design books include Foresight and Design, The Zeon Files: Art and Design of Historic Route 66 Signs, Urban Composition, and Squares: A Public Space Design Guide.
Shy and nocturnal, Jennifer Crow has never been photographed in the wild, but it’s rumored that she lives near a waterfall in western New York. Her work has appeared in a number of print and electronic venues, including Uncanny Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Wondrous Real and Analog Science Fiction. Curious readers can catch up with her on Bluesky @writerjencrow.bsky.social.
Rebecca Olson worked in the space program for over a quarter century and later moved to the Pacific Northwest on a whim. She has been reading and writing speculative poetry and fiction since before her first publication in her junior high school literary magazine. More recently her poetry has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Star*Line, and other short form publications.
An Active Member of the HWA, E.F. Schraeder holds an advanced degree in library science, and ph.d. in philosophy. The author of The Price of a Small Hot Fire (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2023), the novella What Happened Was Impossible (Ghoulish Books, 2023), the Imadjinn Award finalist Liar: Memoir of a Haunting (Omnium Gatherum, 2021), and other works, Schraeder’s writing has also appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.
Long Category Jurors
Eliza Claudia FILIMON is a Ph.D. Associate Professor at the English Department of the West University in Timişoara, Romania where she teaches Film Studies, Audiovisual Translation and Literary Translation. Her academic training informs and supports her activities as a film juror, a screenplay assessor in international film festivals, a creative writing juror, as well as a literary and audiovisual translator. She is a member of the European Film Academy, a Board member of the PETRA-E European Association, a translation editor of international literary magazines, and the organizer of Shades of Meaning translation contest. She has translated award-winning prose and poetry from English, Dutch and Spanish into Romanian, and she supervises international translation projects in the field of audiovisual and literary translation.
Robert Frazier lives on Nantucket Island working as Artistic Director for Artists Association of Nantucket, with a 45-year career as an oil painter. He is a founding member of the SFPA and served as Editor for Star*Line issues 4.1 through 14.1 as well as some of the early Rhysling Anthologies. He edited the 1984 speculative anthology Burning With a Vision 1984 and the 2020 art history book Born From A Hurricane. He has nine poetry collections, won three Rhysling Awards (2 short, 1 long), and was nominated for the Nebula for his short fiction. In 2005 Robert was named SFPA Grand Master. His interests include science poetry, fine art printmaking, beachcombing, art history, birding, geology, and en plein air painting.
Maxwell I. Gold is a Jewish-American cosmic horror poet and editor, with an extensive body of work comprising over 300 poems since 2017. His writings have earned a place alongside many literary luminaries in the speculative fiction genre. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Maxwell’s work has been recognized with multiple nominations including the Rhysling Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Bram Stoker Awards. Maxwell also served as the editor for 2023 Rhysling Anthology. Find him and his work at www.thewellsoftheweird.com.
Jordan Hirsch writes speculative fiction and poetry while occupying the ancestral and current homelands of the Dakota people, Mni Sota Makoce. Her debut chapbook, Both Worlds, is out with Bottlecap Press, and more of her work is available with Strange Horizons, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, and other venues. Having chaired the Elgin Awards twice, she is currently serving as SFPA treasurer. Find more on her website: jordanrhirsch.wordpress.com.
Diane Severson Mori is a professional classical singer and voice/singing teacher. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, she has lived in several European countries and is now in the UK. She became involved with SpecPo since 2011 when she started podcasting poetry for the Podcast Fiction Magazine, StarShipSofa. She volunteers for the SFPA wearing many different hats, but most importantly as Membership Chair. She has edited, reviewed, and recorded speculative poetry in several venues including Eye to the Telescope, Amazing Stories, and Star*Line. She has even published a poem or two and dares you to find them.
Winner Biographies

Geoffrey A. Landis is a physicist, science fiction writer, and poet. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Heinlein award for fiction, and the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars awards for poetry. When he is not writing, he is a scientist at the NASA John Glenn Research Center, developing new technologies for spaceflight

Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her latest releases include Screaming Intensifies (Whiskey City Press), the In the King’s Power series (self-published), and Ain’t These Sorrows Sweet (Roadside Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO. https://linktr.ee/laurenscharhag

Angel Leal (no bio or photo provided)

Theodora Goss

Lisa Timpf is a retired HR and communications professional who lives in Simcoe, Ontario. Her speculative poetry has appeared in New Myths, Star*Line, Triangulation: Seven-Day Weekend, Polar Borealis, and other venues. Her collection of speculative haibun poetry, In Days to Come, is available from Hiraeth Publishing. You can find out more about Lisa’s writing projects at http://lisatimpf.blogspot.com/

Angela Liu is a Nebula-, Ignyte-, and Rhysling-nominated writer/poet from NYC who writes about intergenerational trauma and weird things. She formerly researched mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan. Her stories and poetry are published in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Uncanny, The Dark, Interzone Digital, Small Wonders, Lightspeed, khōréō, and Logic(s), among others. Check out more of her work at liu-angela.com or find her on Twitter/Instagram @liu_angela and on Bluesky @angelaliu.bsky.social
Finalist Poems
104 members voted on the 50 short poems and 25 long poems below, which were selected by jurors from the list of all nominated poems.
Short Poems
- Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity! • Emily Ruth Verona • Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II
- The Beauty of Monsters • Angela Liu • Small Wonders 1
- The Blight of Kezia • Patricia Gomes • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- The Day We All Died, A Little • Lisa Timpf • Radon 5
- Deadweight • Jack Cooper • Propel 7
- Dear Mars • Susan L. Lin • The Sprawl Mag 1.2
- Dispatches from the Dragon's Den • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 46.2
- Dr. Jekyll • West Ambrose • Thin Veil Press December
- First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare • Emily Jiang • Uncanny 53
- Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 31
- Gods of the Garden • Steven Withrow • Spectral Realms 19
- The Goth Girls' Gun Gang • Marisca Pichette • The Dread Machine 3.2
- Guiding Star • Tim Jones • Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)
- Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke • Morgan L. Ventura • Banshee 15
- hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice • Ennis Rook Bashe • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice
- Hi! I am your Cortical Update! • Mahaila Smith • Star*Line 46.3
- How to Make the Animal Perfect? • Linda D. Addison • Weird Tales 100
- I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon • Jennessa Hester • HAD October
- Invasive • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Polar Starlight 9
- kan-da-ka • Nadaa Hussein • Apparition Lit 23
- Language as a Form of Breath • Angel Leal • Apparition Lit October
- The Lantern of September • Scott Couturier • Spectral Realms 19
- Let Us Dream • Myna Chang • Small Wonders 3
- The Magician's Foundling • Angel Leal • Heartlines Spec 2
- The Man with the Stone Flute • Joshua St. Claire • Abyss & Apex 87
- Mass-Market Affair • Casey Aimer • Star*Line 46.4
- Mom's Surprise • Francis W. Alexander • Tales from the Moonlit Path June
- A Murder of Crows • Alicia Hilton • Ice Queen 11
- No One Now Remembers • Geoffrey Landis • Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.
- orion conquers the sky • Maria Zoccula • On Spec 33.2
- Pines in the Wind • Karen Greenbaum-Maya • The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)
- The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon • T.D. Walker • Radon Journal 5
- A Prayer for the Surviving • Marisca Pichette • Haven Speculative 9
- Pre-Nuptial • F. J. Bergmann • The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)
- The Problem of Pain • Anna Cates • Eye on the Telescope 49
- The Return of the Sauceress • F. J. Bergmann • The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
- Sea Change • David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader • Scifaikuest May
- Seed of Power • Linda D. Addison • The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)
- Sleeping Beauties • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- Solar Punks • J. D. Harlock • The Dread Machine 3.1
- Song of the Last Hour • Samuel A. Betiku • The Deadlands 22
- Sphinx • Mary Soon Lee • Asimov's September/October
- Storm Watchers (a drabbun) • Terrie Leigh Relf • Space & Time
- Sunflower Astronaut • Charlie Espinosa • Strange Horizons July
- Three Hearts as One • G. O. Clark • Asimov's May/June
- Troy • Carolyn Clink • Polar Starlight 12
- Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary • John Grey • Medusa's Kitchen September
- Under World • Jacqueline West • Carmina Magazine September
- Walking in the Starry World • John Philip Johnson • Orion's Belt May
- Whispers in Ink • Angela Yuriko Smith • Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Long Poems
- Archivist of a Lost World • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4
- As the witch burns • Marisca Pichette • Fantasy 87
- Brigid the Poet • Adele Gardner • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
- Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure) • Armoni “Monihymn” Boone • Fiyah 26
- Cradling Fish • Laura Ma • Strange Horizons May
- Dream Visions • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Eccentric Orbits 4
- Eight Dwarfs on Planet X • Avra Margariti • Radon Journal 3
- The Giants of Kandahar • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 88
- How to Haunt a Northern Lake • Lora Gray • Uncanny 55
- Imposter Syndrome • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 124
- The Incessant Rain • Rhiannon Owens • Evermore 3
- Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons November
- Little Brown Changeling • Lauren Scharhag • Aphelion 283
- A Mere Million Miles from Earth • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality April
- Pilot • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
- Protocol • Jamie Simpher • Small Wonders 5
- St. Sebastian Goes To Confession • West Ambrose • Mouthfeel 1
- Sleep Dragon • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Slow Dreaming • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Value Measure • Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish • Dreams and Nightmares 125
- A Weather of My Own Making • Nnadi Samuel • Silver Blade 56
- Welcoming the New Girl • Beth Cato • Penumbric October
- What You Find at the Center • Elizabeth R McClellan • Haven Spec Magazine 12
- The Witch Makes Her To-Do List • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 50
- The Year It Changed • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 46.4
All Nominated Poems
98 short poems and 62 long poems were nominated by 101 members.
Nominated Short Poems
- Alternating Current • F. J. Bergmann • North American Review Vol 308 No 1
- Apposite and Opposite • Michael Bailey • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- As Does the Crow • Beth Cato • Uncanny 53
- As the Night Sky Burns • Eugen Bacon • Texture of Silence (Independent Legions Publishing))
- Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity! • Emily Ruth Verona • Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II
- Bathsheba’s Corsage • Elena Sichrovsky • The Deadlands 30
- The Beauty of Monsters • Angela Liu • Small Wonders 1
- Beloved Death • Rebecca Marjesdatter • The Owl Kingdom and Other Poems
- Binary Star System • Lae Astra • Strange Horizons November
- The Blight of Kezia • Patricia Gomes • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- The Broken Blade • Denise Dumars • JOURN-E, The Journal of Imaginative Literature 2.1
- Chemical Rebalance For Young Cyborg Housewives • Mahaila Smith • Radon Journal 4
- The chittering moon • P S Cottier • Body of Work, ed. C.Z. Tacks (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild)
- Conspiracy Theories • Vince Gotera • The Ekphrastic Review May
- The Day We All Died, A Little • Lisa Timpf • Radon 5
- The Dead Man • Robert Wooten • Dreams and Nightmares 125
- Deadweight • Jack Cooper • Propel 7
- Dear Mars • Susan L. Lin • The Sprawl Mag 1.2
- Dispatches from the Dragon's Den • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 46.2
- Dr. Jekyll • West Ambrose • Thin Veil Press December
- Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • Quail Bell Magazine October
- Dragon Sighting • Patricia Hemminger • Carmina Magazine September
- Einstein's Eyes • G. O. Clark • Dreams and Nightmares 123
- First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare • Emily Jiang • Uncanny 53
- Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 31
- For the attention of my future self • Brian Hugenbruch • Haven Speculative 12
- Gods of the Garden • Steven Withrow • Spectral Realms 19
- A Good Soul, Really, When You Know Them • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Worlds of Possibility October
- The Goth Girls' Gun Gang • Marisca Pichette • The Dread Machine 3.2
- Guiding Star • Tim Jones • Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)
- Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke • Morgan L. Ventura • Banshee 15
- The Hatter Shakes • Christina M. Rau • Neologism Poetry Journal April
- heart sings to changeling heart • Rasha Abdulhadi • The Sprawl Mag 1.2
- Hell Rising • Michael Pendragon • Evermore 2
- hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice • Ennis Rook Bashe • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice
- Hi! I am your Cortical Update! • Mahaila Smith • Star*Line 46.3
- Hora Somni • Tiffany Morris • Uncanny Magazine 54
- How Noah Saved the Dinosaurs--a Litany • David Clink • The Black Ship
- How to Help Hubble • Mary Soon Lee • How to Navigate Our Universe
- How to Make the Animal Perfect? • Linda D. Addison • Weird Tales 100
- How to Plant an Olive Tree on the Moon When All Is Lost • Elena S. Kotsile • The Future Fire June
- I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon • Jennessa Hester • HAD October
- In Your Dreams • Silvatiicus Riddle • Spectral Realms 18
- Invasive • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Polar Starlight 9
- Janeway Was Absolutely Right to Kill Tuvix • Jordan Hirsch • Strange Horizons July
- kan-da-ka • Nadaa Hussein • Apparition Lit 23
- Language as a Form of Breath • Angel Leal • Apparition Lit October
- The Lantern of September • Scott Couturier • Spectral Realms 19
- Let Us Dream • Myna Chang • Small Wonders 3
- Look into the Christmas Box • Amabilis O'Hara • Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Made of Glass • Anna Madden • Haven Speculative 12
- The Magician's Foundling • Angel Leal • Heartlines Spec 2
- The Man with the Stone Flute • Joshua St. Claire • Abyss & Apex 87
- Mass-Market Affair • Casey Aimer • Star*Line 46.4
- Masters of the Future • Bruce Boston • Asimov's July/August
- Me • Jamal Hodge • Qualia Nous 2
- Metal Lullaby • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep
- Mom's Surprise • Francis W. Alexander • Tales from the Moonlit Path June
- Mother Hubble Tames the Unicorn Black Hole • Sandra Lindow • Dreams & Nightmares 125
- Much After the Fact • Zebulon Huset • Phantom Kangaroo 29
- A Murder of Crows • Alicia Hilton • Ice Queen 11
- My Grotesque Treasure • Abi Marie Palmer • Star*Line 46.4
- My Mother Dreams of Endlessness • Angel Leal • Strange Horizons December
- No One Now Remembers • Geoffrey Landis • Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.
- orion conquers the sky • Maria Zoccula • On Spec 33.2
- Patchwork Girl • Deborah L. Davitt • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- Pines in the Wind • Karen Greenbaum-Maya • The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)
- The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon • T.D. Walker • Radon Journal 5
- Poul Anderson's Lay • Frida Westford • Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: a Critical Anthology
- A Prayer for the Surviving • Marisca Pichette • Haven Speculative 9
- Pre-Nuptial • F. J. Bergmann • The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)
- The Problem of Pain • Anna Cates • Eye on the Telescope 49
- The Return of the Sauceress • F. J. Bergmann • The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
- Rubik's Cube • Colleen Anderson • The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams (Yuriko Publishing)
- Sea Change • David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader • Scifaikuest May
- Seed of Power • Linda D. Addison • The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)
- Self-Internalized • Maxwell I. Gold • Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums June
- Shipwrecker's Ball • Alannah Guevara • The Crow's Nest December
- The Singing Girl • Kim Salinas Silva • Abyss & Apex 87
- Sleeping Beauties • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- Solar Punks • J. D. Harlock • The Dread Machine 3.1
- Song of the Last Hour • Samuel A. Betiku • The Deadlands 22
- Sphinx • Mary Soon Lee • Asimov's September/October
- Storm Watchers (a drabbun) • Terrie Leigh Relf • Space & Time
- A Stranger There • Eugen Bacon • Texture of Silence (Independent Legions Publishing)
- Sunflower Astronaut • Charlie Espinosa • Strange Horizons July
- Tea Leaf Reading • Juleigh Howard-Hobson • Myth and Lore 7
- Three Hearts as One • G. O. Clark • Asimov's May/June
- To the Emperor’s Nightingale • Adele Gardner • Collected Winning Poems from the Poetry Society of Virginia
- Troy • Carolyn Clink • Polar Starlight 12
- Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary • John Grey • Medusa's Kitchen September
- Uncensored Footage of the Cyborg at the U.S. Embassy • Abu Bakr Sadiq • Boston Review June
- Under World • Jacqueline West • Carmina Magazine September
- Walking in the Starry World • John Philip Johnson • Orion's Belt May
- We Are Orphans • Avra Margariti • Heartlines Spec Fall/Winter
- When We Could Finally See Our Ribcages • Angela Nicole Duggins • Chrome Baby 120
- Whispers in Ink • Angela Yuriko Smith • Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Whole World • Colleen Anderson • Polar Starlight 12
Nominated Long Poems
- Archivist of a Lost World • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4
- As the witch burns • Marisca Pichette • Fantasy 87
- Below the Bible Belt • Lauren Scharhag • Thanatos 2
- Between Scylla and Charybdis • Carina Bissett • The Future Fire June
- Brigid the Poet • Adele Gardner • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
- Chantress • Akua Lezli Hope • Unioverse
- Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure) • Armoni “Monihymn” Boone • Fiyah 26
- Consent For Facial Reconstruction With the Shelley Concepts Inc Custom Patient-Fitted Reconstruction Prosthesis • Katie R. Yen • Apparition Lit 21
- Cradling Fish • Laura Ma • Strange Horizons May
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon is Your Father • Brandon O'Brien • Strange Horizons October
- Cupid Visits the Archery Club • Lisa Timpf • Illumen Summer
- Don't Make me Come Back • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4
- Dragons Got Wings • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 124
- Dream Visions • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Eccentric Orbits 4
- Eight Dwarfs on Planet X • Avra Margariti • Radon Journal 3
- The Empress Chides the Hermit • Ali Trotta • Small Wonders 0
- The Giants of Kandahar • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 88
- Glitterman • Richard Stevenson • The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
- The Grey Witch's Haibun: Japan 1870 - 1871 • Calie Voorhis • Strange Horizons August
- Had She Lived • Lori R. Lopez • Dreams and Nightmares 124
- Hades Baedeker • Ken Chen • Granta 27
- Hamelin in the Distance • Maria Schrater • Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 58
- How A Xenomorph Knows • Annika Barranti Klein • Kaleidotrope winter
- How to Haunt a Northern Lake • Lora Gray • Uncanny 55
- How to Make Love to a Saguaro Cactus • Spencer Nitkey • Cream Scene Carnival August
- hyphae hot pot • D.A. Xiaolin Spires • Eye to the Telescope 48
- I Was on My Way to Tell You There Is a Vast Machine Intelligence Plotting Our Downfall, Or, the Time Machine • David Clink • The Black Ship
- Imposter Syndrome • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 124
- The Incessant Rain • Rhiannon Owens • Evermore 3
- Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons November
- Knight of Wands, Six of Swords • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 54
- The Lay of Géac Ettinfell • Adam Bolivar • Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology December
- Little Brown Changeling • Lauren Scharhag • Aphelion 283
- Lost Lines from Ariel's Song • Gretchen Tessmer • Fantasy and Science Fiction 768
- Lying Flat • Lynne Sargent • Strange Horizons October
- A Mere Million Miles from Earth • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality April
- The mirror-backed cabinet in oak • Richard Magahiz • Otoliths 69
- Never an Oasis • Brian Hugenbruch • Star*Line 46.1
- The Nomad • Marge Simon • Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar./Apr.
- Pilot • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
- Protocol • Jamie Simpher • Small Wonders 5
- Robin Hood’s Larder’s Torn Roots • Kim Malinowski • Fairy Tale Magazine Spring
- St. Sebastian Goes To Confession • West Ambrose • Mouthfeel 1
- She Seeks a Home • Beth Cato • Small Wonders 0
- Skinner • Frank Coffman • What the Night Brings August
- Sleep Dragon • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Slow Dreaming • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- The Thing That Leaps • Elis Montgomery • Apparition Lit 23
- To the Far-Shooting God of Poetry, Healing, and Sunlight • Calliope Mertig • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
- Tomorrow I’ll Be Five • Jamal Hodge • Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Troop No. 80085 • Marisca Pichette • The Deadlands 32
- The Truth Is As Intimate As The Teeth That Bit Your Legs Off First • Elizabeth McClellan • Sand, Salt, Blood: An Anthology of Sea Horror
- The Two of Coins • Lauren Scharhag • Decomp Journal 6
- Value Measure • Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish • Dreams and Nightmares 125
- A Weather of My Own Making • Nnadi Samuel • Silver Blade 56
- Welcoming the New Girl • Beth Cato • Penumbric October
- What You Find at the Center • Elizabeth R McClellan • Haven Spec Magazine 12
- When the Honeymoon is Over • Lauren Scharhag • Aphelion 282.27
- The Witch Makes Her To-Do List • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 50
- Would You, Empress • Tara Campbell • Voices of the Winter Solstice December
- The Year It Changed • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 46.4
Nominations per Publication
| Publication | Nominations |
|---|---|
| Abyss & Apex | 3 |
| Altered Reality | 1 |
| Aphelion | 2 |
| Apparition Lit | 4 |
| Asimov's | 3 |
| Banshee | 1 |
| The Beautiful Leaves | 1 |
| Black Joy Unbound | 1 |
| The Black Ship | 2 |
| Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums | 1 |
| Body of Work | 1 |
| The Book of Sleep | 3 |
| The Book of Withces | 1 |
| Boston Review | 1 |
| Carmina Magazine | 2 |
| Chrome Baby | 1 |
| Collected Winning Poems from the Poetry Society of Virginia | 1 |
| Cream Scene Carnival | 1 |
| The Crow's Nest | 1 |
| The Deadlands | 4 |
| The Dread Machine | 2 |
| Decomp Journal | 1 |
| Dreams and Nightmares | 6 |
| Eccentric Orbits | 3 |
| The Ekphrastic Review | 1 |
| Eternal Haunted Summer | 3 |
| Evermore | 2 |
| Eye to the Telescope | 2 |
| Fairy Tale Magazine | 1 |
| Fantasy | 1 |
| Fantasy & Science Fiction | 3 |
| Fiyah Magazine | 1 |
| The Flying Saucer Poetry Review | 2 |
| The Future Fire | 2 |
| Granta | 1 |
| HAD | 1 |
| Haven Speculative | 4 |
| Heartlines Spec | 2 |
| Heroic Fantasy Quarterly | 1 |
| How to Navigate Our Universe | 1 |
| HWA Poetry Showcase | 4 |
| Ice Queen | 1 |
| Illumen | 1 |
| JOURN-E | 1 |
| The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams | 1 |
| Kaleidotrope | 1 |
| Medusa's Kitchen | 1 |
| Mouthfeel | 1 |
| Myth and Lore | 1 |
| Neologism Poetry Annual | 1 |
| North American Review | 1 |
| On Spec | 1 |
| Orion's Belt | 1 |
| Otoliths | 1 |
| The Owl Kingdom and Other Poems | 1 |
| Penumbric | 1 |
| Phantom Kangaroo | 1 |
| Polar Starlight | 3 |
| Propel | 1 |
| Quail Bell Magazine | 1 |
| Qualia Nous | 1 |
| Radon Journal | 4 |
| Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa | 1 |
| Sand, Salt, Blood: An Anthology of Sea Horror | 1 |
| Scifaikuest | 1 |
| Silver Blade | 1 |
| Small Wonders | 5 |
| Space & Time | 1 |
| Spectral Realms | 3 |
| Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology | 2 |
| The Sprawl Mag | 2 |
| Star*Line | 6 |
| Strange Horizons | 9 |
| Tales from the Moonlit Path | 1 |
| Texture of Silence | 2 |
| Thanatos | 1 |
| Thin Veil Press | 1 |
| Uncanny | 7 |
| Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection | 1 |
| Unioverse | 1 |
| The Vampyricon | 1 |
| Voices of the Winter Solstice | 1 |
| Weird Tales | 1 |
| What the Night Brings | 1 |
| Whispers from Beyond | 3 |
| Worlds of Possibility | 1 |