Science Fiction Poetry Association President Deborah P. Kolodji has announced the nominees for this year’s Dwarf Stars Award, for the best short speculative poems of 10 lines or less published in 2008. The award is voted by the membership of the SFPA.
The nominees (listed alphabetically by author) are:
“Dark Flow” by Francis W. Alexander (first published in Scifaikuest, August 2008)
untitled (the poem begins:) “the will-o-the-wisp…” by Francis W. Alexander (Abyss & Apex, Issue 28)
“Return of the Zombie Teen Angst” by Mike Allen (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2008)
untitled – “time machine rust” by Megan Arkenberg (Scifaikuest, August 2008)
“The Ghoul” by Megan Arkenberg (Scifaikuest, November 2008)
“the leaf whisperer” by Elizabeth Barrette (Doorways Magazine #5)
untitled – “stars against the night…” by Bruce Boston (SARM)
“Three Things” by Lisa M. Bradley (Talebones, Winter 2008)
“Godmother” by Anna Marie Catoir (Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008)
untitled – “I felt your presence” by Margaret Chula (Ribbons, Winter 2008)
untitled – “falling stars” by Claudia Coutu (Radmore—Eucalypt, Issue 5, 2008)
“Special ears” by Toi Dericotte (Prairie Schooner, Fall 2008)
“Evolution” by Peg Duthie (SciFi Fan 2, April 2008)
untitled – “time lapse” by Margarita Engle (Scifaikuest, August 2008)
“Songs were washing up” by Francesca Forrest (Cabinet des Fees—Scheherzade’s Bequest, Issue 6, Sept 2008)
“Mistress (1)” by Todd Fredson (Blackbird 7.2, Fall 2008)
untitled – “shot of whiskey” by Joshua Gage (SpaceWesterns.com, 2008)
untitled – “stars invisible” by Joshua Gage (Mindflights, November 2008)
“The Tongue-Cut Sparrow’s Song for the Woodsman’s Wife” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Poemeleon, Summer 2008)
“The Lure of an Older Woman” by Toni J. Gardner (Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, 6.2, 2008)
untitled – “quantum mechanics” by James Gianforti (Star*Line, 31.4, July/August 2008)
untitled – “trying to imitate” by Sanford Goldstein (Simply Haiku, Winter 2008)
“Study/Violet” by Leonard Gonatarek (Prick of the Spindle, Vol 2.3, Sept 2008)
untitled – “full moon” by John Grey (Scifaikuest, November 2008)
untitled – “sailor’s ear” by M. Kei (The Sailor’s Ear, Bolts of Silk, 1, February 2008)
untitled – “the dead rise” by M. Kei (Slow Motion: The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, 2008)
untitled – “moonless world” by Patricia Kelly (SciFi Fan 2, April 2008)
untitled – “just as I” by Mariko Kitakubo, translated by Amelia Fielden, (Cicada Forest, Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008)
untitled – “lest we stray” by Mariko Kitakubo, translated by Amelia Fielden (Cicada Forest, Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008)
untitled – “in spite of your absence…” by Deborah P Kolodji (SARM, 2008)
“Fireflies” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2008)
untitled – “thin alpine air” by paul m (Acorn, Fall 2008)
untitled – “winter plum branches” by paul m (Mariposa #19, Autumn/Winter 2008)
“Werepenguin” by Joanne Merriam (Strange Horizons, 10-March-2008)
“There, where the universe begins” by Terrie Leigh Relf (Astropoetica 6.2, Spring 2008)
untitled – “one foot on Mars” by Karen A. Romanko (Scifaikuest, February 2008)
untitled – “on the footpath” by Linda Papanicolaou (Ribbons, Autumn 2008)
untitled – “in the mouth” by Ann K. Schwader (Scifaikuest, November 2008)
“Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah” by J.E. Stanley (Scifaikuest, November 2008)
untitled – “dark moon” by Maria Steyn (Simply Haiku, Spring 2008)
untitled – “from outer space” by George Swede (Ribbons, Winter 2008)
untitled – “strange voices” by Dietmar Tauchner (Frogpond XXI, Number 1, 2008)
“Refugee” by Paul Kareem Tayyer (Pearl #39, Fall/Winter 2008)
untitled – “closer to the moongate” by Linda Jeannette Ward (Hummingbird, September 2008)
untitled – “wet sand” by Michael Dylan Welch (Scifaikuest, August 2008)
“In the Beginning or the End” by N.C. Whitehead (Scifaikuest, May 2008)
“2062” by Stephen M. Wilson (Star*Line, March/April 2008)
“The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight” by Charles Wright (Fiddlehead, Summer 2008)
“Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff” by Jane Yolen (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2008)
untitled – “we all met…” by Lee Clarke Zumpe (Scifaikuest, May 2008)