{"id":8303,"date":"2015-12-18T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?p=8303"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:11:54","slug":"sfpa-news-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/2015\/12\/18\/sfpa-news-for-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SFPA News for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Star*Line Pushcart Prize Nominations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following poems published in&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;during 2015 have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.&nbsp;<em>\u2014F.J. Bergmann,&nbsp;<\/em>Star*Line<em>&nbsp;editor<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.com\/sl\/edchoice\/38.1-2.html\">\u201cThe Echo Devours the Echo\u201d by Marc Pietrzykowski<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;38:1<br><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.com\/sl\/edchoice\/38.2-5.html\">\u201cMothership\u201d by Bobbie Lovell<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;38:2<br>\u201cA Great Grave\u201d by E.H. Brogan \u2022&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;38:3<br><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.com\/sl\/edchoice\/38.3-3.html\">\u201cIt Came to Pass\u201d by Mark Mansfield<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;38:3<br><a href=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.com\/sl\/edchoice\/38.4-5.html\">\u201cThere Is No Why\u201d by Lynette Mejia<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;38:4<br>\u201cLately I&#8217;ve Been Thinking of Sacrifice\u201d by Israel Wasserstein \u2022&nbsp;<em>Star*Line<\/em>&nbsp;38:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">March 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra Kasturi&#8217;s poem, &#8220;Specializing in the Prehistory of Whales&#8221; has been longlisted for the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/poetrysociety.org.uk\/competitions\/national-poetry-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poetry Society (UK)&#8217;s National Poetry Competition<\/a>. Over 13,000 entries, and the longlist is 140 poems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">January 2015<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suzette Haden Elgin, the founder of SFPA, passed away on January 27th. Elizabeth Barrette&#8217;s elegy,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org\/10140809.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cSoulsounds.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Lovecraft E-zine Author of the Week<\/em><br>Ann K. Schwader:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lovecraftzine.com\/2015\/01\/21\/lovecraftian-weird-fiction-author-of-the-week-ann-k-schwader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lovecraftzine.com\/2015\/01\/21\/lovecraftian-weird-fiction-author-of-the-week-ann-k-schwader\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stoker Preliminary Ballot<\/em><br>The following SFPA members\u2019 book are on the Preliminary Ballot for HWA\u2019s Bram Stoker Award for&nbsp;<strong>Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Robert Payne Cabeen \u2013\u00a0<em>Fearwoms<\/em>\u00a0(Fanboy Comics)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>G.O. Clark \u2013\u00a0<em>Gravedigger\u2019s Dance<\/em>\u00a0(Dark Renaissance Books)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corrinne De Winter and Alessandro Manzetti \u2013\u00a0<em>Venus Intervention<\/em>\u00a0(Kipple Officina Libraria)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wade German \u2013\u00a0<em>Dreams from the Black Nebula<\/em>\u00a0(Hippocampus Press)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo \u2013\u00a0<em>Sweet Poison<\/em>\u00a0(Dark Renaissance Books)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Wytovich \u2013\u00a0<em>Mourning Jewelry<\/em>\u00a0(Raw Dog Screaming Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2015 Star*Line Pushcart Prize Nominations The following poems published in&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;during 2015 have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.&nbsp;\u2014F.J. Bergmann,&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;editor \u201cThe Echo Devours the Echo\u201d by Marc Pietrzykowski&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;38:1\u201cMothership\u201d by Bobbie Lovell&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;38:2\u201cA Great Grave\u201d by E.H. Brogan \u2022&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;38:3\u201cIt Came to Pass\u201d by Mark Mansfield&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;38:3\u201cThere Is No Why\u201d by Lynette Mejia&nbsp;\u2022&nbsp;Star*Line&nbsp;38:4\u201cLately I&#8217;ve Been Thinking of Sacrifice\u201d by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}