Science Fiction Poetry Association President Deborah P. Kolodji announces the winners of the 2008 Dwarf Stars Award, for the best short speculative poems of 10 lines or less. The award is voted by the membership of the SFPA.
The first place winner is “Place Mat by Moebius” by Greg Beatty, which was originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction. Beatty “lives with his wife in Bellingham, Washington, where he tries—unsuccessfully—to stay dry. He writes everything from children’s books to essays about his cooking debacles. Greg recently published his first poetry chapbook, Phrases of the Moon.”
Second place went to Sonya Taaffe for her poem, “Muse,” originally published in Strange Horizons. Taaffe has “a confirmed addiction to myth, folklore, and dead languages. Her short fiction and poetry can be found collected in Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books). She holds master’s degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale.”
Ann K. Schwader won third price for her haibun, “Dancing with Van Gogh,” which first appeared in Mythic Delirium. A haibun is a poetry form which combines short prose with haiku.
Copies of the 2008 Dwarf Stars anthology are still available from the SFPA on this page.