The winning poems for the 2025 Dwarf Stars award have now been announced. The Dwarf Stars award is given by the Science Fiction Poetry Association each year to recognize the best speculative poem of 1–10 lines published in the previous year. SFPA members selected the following poems out of dozens of nominated works from 2024. 1st… Read more: 2025 Dwarf Stars Winners Announced

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has a brand new look on a brand new website—and if you're reading this, you're already there! We've moved the site to WordPress to make it easier to maintain in the long run, and also moved from a .com to a .org domain to better reflect our status… Read more: Welcome to the new SFPA website!

The latest issue of Star*Line is now available. You can find the table of contents, including a message from the editor and the editor's choice poems, online at the Star*Line Issue 48.3 page.

The candidates for SFPA's annual Elgin award have been announced, and can be viewed on the 2025 Elgin Award page. Voting for the award runs through September 15th.

The finalists for SFPA's annual Rhysling award have been announced, and can be viewed on the 2025 Rhysling Award page. This year, the finalists were selected by Rhysling jurors from the long-list of poems voted on by SFPA members. Voting for the award runs through September 15th.

The finalists for SFPA's annual Dwarf Star award have been announced, and can be viewed on the 2025 Dwarf Stars Award and Anthology page. Voting for the award runs through August 31st.

SFPA's annual poetry contest is open to submissions! The SFPA speculative poetry contest is open to all poets, including non-SFPA-members. Prizes will be awarded for best unpublished poem in 3 categories: Line count does not include title or stanza breaks. All sub-genres of speculative poetry allowed in any form. Entries must be anonymized to ensure… Read more: 2025 Poetry Contest Now Open!

Star*Line 48.2 (Spring 2025) has been published and is now available via the Star*Line Archives page.

Star*Line 48.1 (Winter 2025) has now been published and can be found on the Star*Line Archives page.

October, 2023 SFPA member PS Cottier's poem “Hip gnomes” won the Shadows Award, given by the Australasian Horror Writers Association for the best poem of 2022. For more information, see https://www.facebook.com/AustHorror/posts/738555188306885

November 2022 Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations September 2022 Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net nominations February 2022 HWA Stoker Award Poetry Collection shortlist

December 2021 Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Prize nominations September 2021 Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net nominations February 2021 HWA Stoker Award Poetry Collection shortlist January 2021 HWA Stoker Award Poetry Collection preliminary ballot

December 2020 Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Prize nominations September 2020 Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net nominations

November 2019 Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Prize nominations Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations February 2019 Bram Stoker Award Nominees: Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection January 2019 Stoker Preliminary BallotThe following SFPA members’ book are on the Preliminary Ballot for HWA’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:

November 2018 Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Prize nominations October 2018 Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations July 2018 Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net nominations February 2018 Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot: Superior Achievement in a Poetry CollectionAll are SFPA members! January 2018 Stoker Preliminary BallotThe following SFPA members’ book are on the Preliminary… Read more: SFPA News for 2018

October 2017 Star*Line Pushcart Prize nominations Eye to the Telescope Pushcart prize nominations July 2017 Eye to the Telescope Best of the Net nominations May 2017 Lifetime SFPA member Herb Kauderer's poem “After” won the 2016 Asimov's Readers' Award. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/05/12477/ Herb Kauderer was the subject of an interview on the mainstream site Broadway World, but the interview, of course, spun off into speculative… Read more: SFPA News for 2017

November 2016 Pushcart Prize NominationsThe following poems published in 2016 have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize: From Star*Line: From Eye to the Telescope: September 2016 Best of the Net NominationsThe following poems published in the preceding year have been nominated for Best of the Net: July 2016 Rhysling AwardsRuth Berman received her Rhysling Award for the Short… Read more: SFPA News for 2016

December 2015 Star*Line Pushcart Prize Nominations The following poems published in Star*Line during 2015 have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. —F.J. Bergmann, Star*Line editor “The Echo Devours the Echo” by Marc Pietrzykowski • Star*Line 38:1“Mothership” by Bobbie Lovell • Star*Line 38:2“A Great Grave” by E.H. Brogan • Star*Line 38:3“It Came to Pass” by Mark Mansfield • Star*Line 38:3“There Is No Why” by Lynette Mejia • Star*Line 38:4“Lately I've Been Thinking of Sacrifice” by… Read more: SFPA News for 2015

December 2014 Star*Line Pushcart Prize Nominations We have nominated the following poems published in Star*Line during 2014 for the Pushcart Prize. —F.J. Bergmann, Star*Line editor “High Road,” David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Star*Line 37.1“Pauli Neutrino Telescope, Antarctica, July 14, 2033,” David Barber, Star*Line 37.2“The Last Etymologist,” Jocko Benoit, Star*Line 37.2“Ferment,” Jane Røken, Star*Line 37.2“Let Everything Be Taken as Given,” Daniel Priest, Star*Line 37.3“Tiny Studies (Particle 14),” Kathleen Balma,… Read more: SFPA News for 2014

December 2013 Star*Line Pushcart Prize Nominations We have nominated the following poems published in Star*Line during 2013 for the Pushcart Prize. —F.J. Bergmann, Star*Line editor “The Captain Speaks” • Leslie J. Anderson, Star*Line 36.1“Don’t Think There’s Nothing to Fear,” Kurt McPhearson, Star*Line 36.2“Interpose: A Love Poem” • Scott T. Hutchison, Star*Line 36.2“After Oz” • C. W. Johnson, Star*Line 36.2“Intergalactic UPS” • Jeffrey Johannes, Star*Line 36.3“Beowulf at Breakfast,” Christine Howey, Star*Line 36.4 (mp3 2.6MB audio) October… Read more: SFPA News for 2013

December 2012 Star*Line Pushcart Prize Nominations The following poems published in Star*Line during 2012 were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. —F.J. Bergmann, Star*Line editor Star*Line 35.2“LOL_ALIENS” by Elizabeth Barrette Star*Line 35.3“Crackling Octopus” by Jessy Randall“Regrets Only” by Jeanie Tomasko“Casting the Future” by Serena Fusek Star*Line 35.4“Cognizance: A Triptych” by Kurt MacPhearson“In this House of Sinners” by Isaac Black November 2012 Eye to the Telescope Pushcart Nominations The… Read more: SFPA News for 2012

October 2011 How to Record a Halloween PoemDeborah Kolodji, with Rick Wilson on Native American desert flute. Poetry Panel at NecronomiconElissa Malcohn attended Necronomicon 30 October 21–23. Two of her five panels dealt with poetry.Fellow panelists Jeffrey Breslauer, John S. Tumlin, Rick Wilber, and Johanna M. Bolton. Elissa Malcohn photo. Spec Po Master's Thesis Receives… Read more: SFPA News for 2011

November 2010 CZP/Rannu Fund for Writers of Speculative Literaturerannu.webs.com/entryrules.htmThe Fund, brought to you in collaboration with ChiZine Publications, offers two awards per year of $500 CDN each, one for fiction, one for poetry, granted to two writers of speculative literature (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, surrealism, etc.), of any nationality/place of residence, at… Read more: SFPA News for 2010

December 2009 SFPA Introduces New Official Moderated Member Forum(NB: the forum was underutilized and has since been removed)A team working under the direction and with the advice of SFPA Vice-President Karen A. Romanko has developed, installed and launched a new official forum for SFPA member discussions. Although several online communities and groups exist for discussions of speculative… Read more: SFPA News for 2009

November 2007 Sporty Spec LaunchSpeculative poetry was very much a part of the West Coast Launch of Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, the new anthology edited by SFPA member Karen A. Romanko on Thursday, November 29, 2007, at Bookfellows/Mystery and Imagination bookstore in Glendale, California. Samantha Henderson and Deborah P Kolodji read their poems from the anthology and Jude-Marie Green read her flash fiction… Read more: SFPA News for 2007

December 2006 SFPA's Dwarf Stars Award Winner AnnouncedThe Dwarf Stars Award is given annually to the best short-short SF poem of the year. To be eligible, a poem must be 10 lines or less and first published in the previous calendar year. The winner of the 2006 Dwarf Star Award is "Knowledge Of," by Ruth Berman. In second place was "The Stepsister,"… Read more: SFPA News for 2006