Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) President Deborah P. Kolodji writes to tell us of the results of the organization’s 2010 New Poets Contest (the first year they’ve run this contest):
“A panel of judges from the SFPA membership has selected the winners of this year’s first-ever SFPA New Poets Contest, held on our official forum. The contest was designed with art as its inspiration and offered cash prizes to the winners, with no fees to enter. New poets were invited to contribute, and non-members as well as members were eligible. Entrants were challenged to write a speculative poem of 20 lines or less inspired by one of the works of art on this page.”
The winners are:
First Place: “Do Unicorns Dream of Electric Virgins?” by Ishita Basu Mallik (of West Bengal, India)
Second Place: “Astronomy in the Seventeenth Century” by Martin Elster (West Hartford, Connecticut)
Third Place: “Collision reCourse” by Jessica Rainey (Barcelona, Spain)
The winning poems, along with the artworks that inspired them, have been published on this page.