All Award Winners

Editor and Juror Biographies

Editor

Jury for the Short Poem Category

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She’s a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick Award, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. She’s a multi-nominated Rhysling, Dwarf Stars and Elgin Award nominee for her prose poetry. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.

A life-long sci-fi fan, AC Edwards participates in the biannual Poem-a-Day Challenges (through Robert Lee Brewer's Poetic Asides blog). She has had poems and essays published in The Gunpowder Review, the online journal Wordgathering, WNC Woman, the BSFAN (Balticon46 Convention Souvenir Book), as well Mermaid Dreams, a limited edition chapbook from Blue Light Press. Her poems have won third place in the Baltion46 Poetry Contest and the 2011 Inglis House Disability Poetry Contest (written by a non-disabled person). Her poem “Dreams” was chosen as a subject for a disability-related lesson plan by Vicky Lotas, an ESL teacher, on her blog. AC Edwards was born in NC, grew up in the Alaskan Bush, is a former massage therapist and has earned a black belt in karate. She still has hopes for one in jiu-jitsu. When not writing, AC can be found on the couch, being held hostage by a book—usually a science fiction or fantasy novel—and two Siberian Huskies.

Jean-Paul L. Garnier is the owner of Space Cowboy Books bookstore and publishing house, producer of Simultaneous Times Podcast (2023 Laureate Award Winner, 2024 BSFA, Ignyte, and British Fantasy Award Finalist), and was the editor of the SFPA's Star*Line magazine from 2021-2025. He is also the poetry editor of Worlds of IF & Galaxy magazines. In 2024 he won the Laureate Award for Best Editor. He has written many books of poetry and science fiction. More at spacecowboybooks.com

John Philip Johnson is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet with work in or forthcoming from Image, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, Strange Horizons, Pedestal, Rust & Moth, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Mythic Delirium, Dreams & Nightmares, Daily Science Fiction, the newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry,” and many other places. He has two comic books of graphic poetry, Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town and The Book of Fly, the latter which won an Elgin Award. He would live on Mars if his wife, Sue, would go with him. www.johnphilipjohnson.com. 

Herb Kauderer is a tenured English professor at Hilbert College in Hamburg, NY. He lives in Blasdell near the northeast corner of Lake Erie in the midst of endless wind. He holds a PhD in popular literature and an MFA in screenwriting. Herb has been an active member of SFPA since 1989. He has written in many areas, and has had well over two thousand poems published, including 24 books and/or chapbooks with more in press. He has often been a juror for the Stoker Awards and has sat on many other award juries.

Ian Willey is a professor, editor, and writer from Akron, Ohio, now living in Japan. He introduced the term convenience editing to the field of second language acquisition. He began writing poems, prose poems, and flash fiction with a speculative element around 2019; his work can be seen in such online journals as Unbroken, Moon Park Review, Uppagus, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. He was nominated for Pushcart and/or Best of the Net Prizes in 2019–2023.

Jury for the Long Poem Category

Angela Acosta is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina Columbia. Her creative and academic work center on imagining possible worlds and preserving the cultural legacies of women writers. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Dwarf Stars, Elgin, and Rhysling awards. Her poems have appeared in Heartlines Spec, Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. She is author of Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023).

Ennis Rook Bashe is a two-time Elgin Award finalist, Rhysling Award finalist, TAP New York Writers’ Institute Poetry Prize winner, and Lesfic Bard Award-winning poet/novelist/game designer/dog aficionado. Their work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Cricket, and Liminality Magazine, and their chapbook Beautiful Malady (Interstellar Flight Press) includes work nominated for the Pushcart Prize. They are also a judge for the Scholastic Art and Writing awards in the Poetry and Flash Fiction categories. Find more writing and information at https://linktr.ee/ennisrookbashe.

Fran Eisemann is a writer, editor, and artist. She is Editor-in-Chief of Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, the online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tale, and eldritch stories, poems, art, articles, reviews, interviews, and podcasts.

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.

Shane Morin is an urban poet living in Dover, New Hampshire. After a loss of parental time due to divorce, he began writing as a grief process. Since then, he has honed his craft to blend post-modernity with speculative concepts and topics of contemporary horror. Shane identifies as a feminist and LGBTQIA++ ally. He is currently completing his Master’s in Literature at UNH, and hopes to earn a PhD in Poetry at Old Dominion. In his spare time, Shane binges Farscape and anything Star Trek.

Finalist Poems

The 50 short poems and 25 long poems below were selected by jurors from the list of all nominated poems.

Short Poems

• After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel • P. H. Low • Haven Spec 14
• aftermath, in the city: a diary • Peter Roberts • Chrome Baby 133
• Battle of the Sexless • Colleen Anderson • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing, October)
• A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • Pedro Iniguez • Star*Line 47.1
• Bobblehead • Carol Gyzander • Discontinue if Death Ensues (Flame Tree Collections, October)
• Born Against Teeth • Tiffany Morris • Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications, September)
• Brandy Old Fashioned • Amelia Gorman • Eye to the Telescope 53
• Chronoverse • Jeffery Allen Tobin • Star*Line 47.3
• Colony Xaxbara 4 • Kimberly Kuchar • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 2
• Dodging the Bullet • Lisa M. Bradley • Small Wonders 13
• Fractal • Jack Cooper • Poetry News Spring 2024
• Generation Ship • Akua Lezli Hope • Star*Line 47.3
• Gingerbread • Stephanie M. Wytovich • The Orange & Bee 2
• Gravitation is Only a Theory • Alan Katerinsky • Wheeling, Yet Not Free (Written Image Press, July)
• The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 35
• In the Future, AI Will Make Ofrendas • Felicia Martínez • Asimov's Jan/Feb 2024
• The Last Valkyrie • Pat Masson • Forgotten Ground Regained 2
• The Last Woman • Anna Taborska • Discontinue if Death Ensues (Flame Tree Collections, October)
• Lesson’s End • Brian Hugenbruch • Samjoko Summer 2024
• Let's Pretend It's a Bird • Roger Dutcher • NewMyths 69
• Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146
• Make me a sandwich • Marisca Pichette • Star*Line 47.2
• New Homestead • Akua Lezli Hope • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 5
• Notes from a Centaur's Curator • Gwen Sayers • Ghost Sojourn (Southword Editions, April)
• The Oarfish Bride • Amelia Gorman • Baubles From Bones 2
• Odysseus’s Apology to Anticlea • Anastasios Mihalopoulos • Lit Magazine 37
• The Old Tradition • Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi • FIYAH 32
• One Bright Moment • Kate Boyes • SFPA Valentines Day Reading
• One Large Deep Fried Thistle Burr • Jonathan Olfert • Strange Horizons 8/19/2024
• Our Combusted Planet • Brian U. Garrison • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Pa(i)ncakes • Dex Drury • Slay and Slay Again! (Sliced Up Press, July)
• Right to Shelter • Mary Soon Lee • Radon Journal 7
• Rising Star • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Spectral Realms 21
• Robin's Rest • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 54
• Sea and Sky • Megan Branning • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Winter 2024
• Song Through Wires • Jacqueline West • Star*Line 47.4
• Sonnet for the Unbeliever • Paul Chuks • Strange Horizons 5/20/2024
• Space Psychiatry • Anna Cates • Star*Line 47.3
• Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean • Sandra Kasturi • Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition October
• the time travel body • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 8
• Transhumanist Classroom • Pedro Iniguez • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books, November)
• traveling through breaths • Eva Papasoulioti • Radon Journal 6
• Trinary • Amabilis O'Hara • Heartlines Spec 4
• Trip Through the Robot • Carolyn Clink & David Clink • Giant Robot Poems (Middle West Press, July)
• Visions of Manhattan • Ian Li • Eye to the Telescope 53
• A War of Words • Marie Brennan • Strange Horizons 9/16/2024
• We Carry Our Ghosts to the Stars • Richard Leis • Star*Line 47.3
• What Dragons Didn't Do • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 6
• The Witch Recalls Her Craft • Angel Leal • Uncanny 60
• You Are a Monster • Beth Cato • Worlds of Possibility August 2024 Issue

Long Poems

• 9ⁿ Lives • Mary A. Turzillo • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• The Blackthorn • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Body Revolt • Casey Aimer • Strange Horizons 7/29/2024
• Change Your Mind • Gwendolyn Maia Hicks • Small Wonders 16
• Divide By Zero • Michael Bailey • Written Backwards 12/22/24 Post
• Draco Hesperidum • Eric Brown • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice 2024
• Elemental Scales • Ruth Berman • Star*Line 47.1
• The Fabulous Underwater Panther • Marsheila Rockwell • Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes (Fallen Tree Press, July)
• The Final Trick • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons 8/26/2024
• Giant Robot and His Person • Akua Lezli Hope • FIYAH 31
• The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 58
• The House of Mulberry Leaves • Ryu Ando • Crow & Cross Keys 2/7/2024
• In Graves Wood • Siân Thomas • Long Poem Magazine 32
• The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program • Steve Wheat • Radon Journal 8
• Medicine For The Ailing Mortal, as Told in Seven Stories • Silvaticus Riddle • The Fairy Tale Magazine 5/1/2024
• The Museum of Etymology • F. J. Bergmann • Star*Line 47.3
• My Queen's Last Gift • Adele Gardner • Dark Dead Things 3
• Porphyria’s Lover • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 92
• The Price of Becoming a Villain is to Quell One's Kin in a Charade of Pact with The Gods • Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan • The Deadlands 36
• Shattered Souls at Heaven’s Gate • Ayòdéjì Israel • The Deadlands 36
• Star Stitcher • A. J. Van Belle • Haven Spec 13
• Watching • Vonnie Winslow Crist • Shivers, Scares, and Chills (Dark Owl Publishing, October)
• We Makes It • J.H. Siegal • Penumbric April 2024 Issue
• What Beautiful Heavens These • Kaya Skovdatter • Strange Horizons 12/23/2024
• When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation • Kyle Tran Myrhe • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day 8/6/2024

All Nominated Poems

99 members nominated 83 short poems and 61 long poems.

Short Poems

• Abstain from Spinning, beauty • Dyani Sabin • Small Wonders 14
• After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel • P. H. Low • Haven Spec 14
• aftermath, in the city. a diary • Peter Roberts • Chrome Baby 133
• Amateur Mycologists • Mariel Herbert • Baubles From Bones 2
• Battle of the Sexless • Colleen Anderson • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing, October)
• A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • Pedro Iniguez • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books, November)
• Bobblehead • Carol Gyzander • Discontinue if Death Ensues (Flame Tree Collections, October)
• Born Against Teeth • Tiffany Morris • Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications, September)
• Brandy Old Fashioned • Amelia Gorman • Eye to the Telescope 53
• Briar Tea Party • Gretchen Tessmer • A Frolic of Fairies (West Avenue Publishing, April)
• Bridge of Grass, Bridge of Suspension • Katherine Quevedo • The Inca Weaver's Tale (Sword & Kettle Press, January)
• Chronoverse • Jeffrey Allen Tobin • Star*Line 47.3
• Colony Xaxbara 4 • Kimberly Kuchar • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 2
• Dietary Advice • P. S. Cottier • BFS Horizons 17
• Dodging the Bullet • lisa M. Bradley • Small Wonders 13
• Dragon Flight • Vince Gotera • Dragons & Rayguns (Final Thursday Press, August)
• Dragonette • Wendy Van Camp • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• Dryad's Temple • Colleen Anderson • Journ-E Volume 3, Number 1
• Flyaway • Eva Papasoulioti • Utopia Science Fiction August
• Fractal • Jack Cooper • Poetry News Spring 2024
• from Venus, to Mars • Cailín Frankland • Eye to the Telescope 55
• The Future We Build Today • Jenny Thompson • The Pink Hydra Volume 1, Issue 2
• Generation Ship • Akua Lezli Hope • Star*Line 47.3
• Ghost Land of Giants • linda D. Addison • Folk Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree Press, August)
• Gingerbread • Stephanie M. Wytovich • The Orange & Bee 2
• A Golden Flame/The Beheading of a Ram • Nnadi Samuel • Abyss & Apex 89
• Gravitation is Only a Theory • Alan Katerinsky • Wheeling, Yet Not Free (Written Image Press, July)
• Grendelsong: A Merewif's Lament • Carina Bissett • Mother Knows Best (Black Spot Books, May)
• Here’s Flowers for You • Diana Webb • Contemporary Haibun Online 20.2
• The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 35
• In the Future, AI Will Make Ofrendas • Felicia Martinez • Asimov's Jan/Feb 2024
• #LANDBACK • Marsheila Rockwell • Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes (Fallen Tree Press, July)
• The Last Valkyrie • Pat Masson • Forgotten Ground Regained 2
• The Last Woman • Anna Taborska • Discontinue if Death Ensues (Flame Tree Collections, October)
• Lesson’s End • Brian Hugenbruch • Samjoko Summer 2024
• Let's Pretend It's A Bird • Roger Dutcher • NewMyths 69
• Liminal • ayana walker • Space & Time Magazine 147
• Lost Ark • F. J. Bergman • Space & Time Magazine 146
• Make me a sandwich • Marisca Pichette • Star*Line 47.2
• Menomin’s Dragon • Sandra lindow • Eye to the Telescope 52
• Mourning Person • Anuja Mitra • The Deadlands 33
• New Homestead • Akua Lezli Hope • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 5
• Notes from a Centaur's Curator • Gwen Sayers • Ghost Sojourn (Southword Editions, April)
• The Oarfish Bride • Amelia Gorman • Baubles From Bones 2
• Odysseus’s Apology to Anticlea • Anastasios Mihalopoulos • lit Magazine 37
• The Old Tradition • Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi • FIYAH 32
• One Bright Moment (International Research Station, Nili Fossae, Mars) • Kate Boyes • SFPA Valentines Day Reading
• One Large Deep Fried Thistle Burr • Jonathan Olfert • Strange Horizons 45523
• Our Combusted Planet • Brian Garrison • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Pa(i)ncakes • Dex Drury • Slay and Slay Again! (Sliced Up Press, July)
• Poor Unfortunate Souls • R. Thursday • The Sprawl Mag 2.1
• Questions Asked of the Scrying Sword During the Quest for the Princess • Elis Montgomery • Small Wonders 17
• Ravens • Vonnie Winslow Crist • Shivers, Scares, and Chills (Dark Owl Publishing, October)
• Right to Shelter • Mary Soon Lee • Radon Journal 7
• Rising Star • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Spectral Realms 21
• Robin's Rest • lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 54
• Sea and Sky • Megan Branning • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Winter 2024
• Song Through Wires • Jacqueline West • Star*Line 47.4
• Sonnet for the Unbeliever • Paul Chuks • Strange Horizons 45432
• SOS • Simon MacCulloch • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Space Psychiatry • Anna Cates • Star*Line 47.3
• Speak of the Wolf • Silvatiicus Riddle • SFPA Halloween Reading
• Stargazing • Stewart C. Baker • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• Storm-Stolen • Elena Sunyoung Kang • Carmina Magazine September 2024 Issue
• The Suns in Her Eyes • Deborah L. Davitt • Baubles From Bones 3
• The Tentacular Crown • Bernardo Villela • Psythur 2 (Ravens Quoth Press, December)
• there are no taxis for the dead • Angela liu • Uncanny 58
• Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean • Sandra Kasturi • Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition October
• Time Lord Thief • Vince Gotera • Altered Reality Journal June
• the time travel body • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 8
• Totality • Mary A. Turzillo • The New Verse News 45390
• Transhumanist Classroom • Pedro Iniguez • Star*Line 47.1
• traveling through breaths • Eva Papasoulioti • Radon Journal 6
• Trinary • Amabilis O’ Hara • Heartlines Spec 4
• Trip Through the Robot • Carolyn Clink & David Clink • Giant Robot Poems (Middle West Press, July)
• Visions of Manhattan • Ian li • Eye to the Telescope 53
• A War of Words • Marie Brennan • Strange Horizons 45551
• We Carry Our Ghosts to the Stars • Richard Leis • Star*Line 47.3
• What Dragons Didn't Do • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 6
• Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father • Angel Leal • Strange Horizons 45452
• The Witch Recalls Her Craft • Angel Leal • Uncanny 60
• The Woodcutter • Anna Cates • Disabled Tales 45477
• You Are a Monster • Beth Cato • Worlds of Possibility 45505
• You can't just sit there crafting hopefully-viral insta posts and expect a dragon to show up (tl; dnr: how to catch a dragon c. 2024) • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)

Long Poems

• 9n lives • Mary A. Turzillo • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• The Baker at the Beggar’s Wedding • Amelia Gorman • Spectral Realms 20
• Battle of the Bards • Frank Coffman • Forgotten Ground Regained 2
• Becoming a Veteran • Herb Kauderer • Distilled from Water (Written Image Press, July)
• The Blackthorn • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Body Revolt • Casey Aimer • Strange Horizons 45502
• A Bullock of Special Burden • Denise Dumars • Animal Gnosis (Alien Buddha Press, September)
• Change Your Mind • Gwendolyn Maia Hicks • Small Wonders 16
• Comet, Cow(nota)girl, & A Cry for Cold • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Eco Punk Literary 2
• Defiance by Cake • Beth Cato • Worlds of Possibility August
• Divide By Zero • Michael Bailey • Written Backwards 12/22/24 Post
• Draco Hesperidum • Eric Brown • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice 2024
• Elemental Scales • Ruth Berman • Star*Line 47.1
• Emily Austenson Brontëbot • Adele Gardner • Star*Line 47.4
• The Fabulous Underwater Panther • Marsheila Rockwell • Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes (Fallen Tree Press, July)
• fear of pipes and shallow water • William O. Balmer • Reckoning 8
• The Final Trick • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons 45530
• First Women • Colleen Anderson • Polar Borealis 29
• Five Nights in the Castle • Beth Cato • Penumbric December 2024 Issue
• Giant Robot and His Person • Akua Lezli Hope • FIYAH 31
• Gretel • Nico Martinez Nocito • Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications, September)
• The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 58
• Hot Enough to Collapse • Eugen Bacon • Galaxy Science Fiction 263
• The House of Mulberry Leaves • Ryu Ando • Crow & Cross Keys 45329
• I've Seen the Ruby Slippers • Alan Ira Gordon • Pittsburgh and Other Poems (Hiraeth Books, June)
• In Graves Wood • Siân Thomas • Long Poem Magazine 32
• The Keep • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• The Large Reckoning • Linda D. Addison • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing, October)
• The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program • Steve Wheat • Radon Journal 8
• Life’s Goal • Herb Kauderer • Distilled from Water (Written Image Press, July)
• Longfellow's Mars • John C. Mannone • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 2
• Max Returns to His Home World • Miguel O. Mitchell • Surrealia (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, August)
• Meat, Bone, and Soul • Beth Cato • Haven Spec 17
• Medicine For The Ailing Mortal, as Told in Seven Stories • Silvatiicus Riddle • The Fairy Tale Magazine 45413
• Melissa • Akua Lezli Hope • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• The Minotaur in His Maze (after a fragment of Helvius Cinna) • Eric Brown • Carmina Magazine March 2024 Issue
• The Museum of Etymology • F.J. Bergman • Star*Line 47.3
• My Queen's Last Gift • Adele Gardner • Dark Dead Things 3
• One Last Pie in the Face • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 58
• The Place Between • Herb Kauderer • Distilled from Water (Written Image Press, July)
• Porphyria’s Lover • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 92
• The Price of Becoming a Villain is to Quell One's Kin in a Charade of Pact with The Gods • Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan • The Deadlands 36
• The Reptile Men (Lovecraftiana) • Jose Ángel Conde • Psythur 2 (Ravens Quoth Press, December)
• Second Coming • Nicholas Montemarano • Rattle: Poets Respond 45298
• Second Life • Christina Sng • Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical Familiars (WordFire Press, July)
• Shattered Souls at Heaven’s Gate • Ayòdéjì Israel • The Deadlands 36
• Southern Graves • Allanah Benae • God's Cruel Joke 4
• Spawn Red Meat Arachnid • Chris Panatier • The Deadlands 35
• Star Stitcher • A. J. Van Belle • Haven Spec 13
• The Third Seal • Jamal Hodge • Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners (Bad Hand Books, December)
• Three Acts of Mercy • Megan Diedericks • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 3
• A Tour of the Blue Palace • Bree Wernicke • Strange Horizons 45452
• Veiling the Statues • Raven Jakubowski • Strange Horizons 45537
• Watching • Vonnie Winslow Crist • Shivers, Scares, and Chills (Dark Owl Publishing, October)
• We Makes It • J.H. Siegal • Penumbric April 2024 Issue
• Weight • ayana walker • Daddies, Demons, and the Dawn (Bookleaf Publishing, February)
• What Beautiful Heavens These • Kaya Skovdatter • Strange Horizons 45649
• What It Tastes Like • Gerri Leen • Eye to the Telescope 53
• When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation • Kyle Tran Myrhe • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day 45510
• XOXO • Hannu Afere • Sahtu Press 9/10/24 Post

Nominations per Publication

Publication	Nominations
Abyss & Apex	2
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day	1
Altered Reality Journal	1
Animal Gnosis	1
Asimov's	1
Baubles From Bones	3
Bestiary of Blood	3
BFS Horizons	1
Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes	2
Carmina Magazine	2
Chrome Baby	1
Contemporary Haibun Online	1
Crow & Cross Keys	1
Daddies, Demons, and the Dawn	1
Dark Dead Things	1
The Deadlands	5
Disabled Tales	1
Discontinue if Death Ensues	2
Distilled from Water	3
Dragons & Rayguns	1
Dreams & Nightmares	3
Eccentric Orbits 5	5
Eco Punk Literary	1
Eternal Haunted Summer	1
Eye to the Telescope	6
The Fairy Tale Magazine	1
Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical Familiars	1
FIYAH	2
Folk Horror Short Stories	1
Forgotten Ground Regained	2
A Frolic of Fairies	1
Galaxy Science Fiction	1
Ghost Sojourn	1
Giant Robot Poems	1
God's Cruel Joke	1
Grimm Retold	2
Haven Spec	3
Heartlines Spec	1
The Inca Weavers Tale	1
Journ-E	1
Lit Magazine	1
Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners	1
Long Poem Magazine	1
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction	1
Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future	1
Mother Knows Best	1
NewMyths	1
The New Verse News	1
The Orange & Bee	1
Penumbric	2
The Pink Hydra	1
Pittsburgh and Other Poems	1
Poetry News	1
Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition	1
Polar Borealis	1
Psythur 2	2
Radon Journal	4
Rattle: Poets Respond	1
Reckoning	1
Sahtu Press	1
Samjoko	1
SFPA Halloween Reading	1
SFPA Valentines Day Reading	1
Shivers, Scares, and Chills	2
Silver Blade	1
Slay and Slay Again!	1
Small Wonders	4
The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review	1
Space & Time Magazine	2
Spectral Realms	2
The Sprawl Mag	1
Star*Line	10
Strange Horizons	9
Sublimation	3
Surrealia	1
Uncanny	3
Uppagus	1
Utopia Science Fiction	1
Wheeling, Yet Not Free	1
Worlds of Possibility	2
Written Backwards	1