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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 16h

#HorrorCommunity
👻 Back from the dead!🪦
🐦‍⬛ 🖤 ✒️ Sandy revived Black Poppy Review & posted my dark poetry!
@hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social @alpbeck.com
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My Mother's Ghost Started Dancing / Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

A dark poetry and flash fiction blog.

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 12h

🎃 23 days to Hallowe'en 🎃
🖤 🐈‍⬛ 📖 Time to stock up on SFF/ horror poetry books!
Add yours!

@swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @sffreview.bsky.social @behindthepages.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @thehorrorzine.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 1d

📕 ✒️ "Vampire Verses" - out soon from @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social - has also shape-shifted into my Hallowe'en card. 🧛 🎃

📬 🦇 Coming soon to your mailbox! 🦇

@sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @hwany.org @hdwp.com @dmcwriter.bsky.social @leannareneehieber.bsky.social @alpbeck.com

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Poets! I'm re-running for @sfpoetry.bsky.social Treasurer, and I'd love your vote!

Once again, I'm running unopposed (other than the Write-in option... or Wrong-in, amirite??), but I'd love your vote entrusting me with SFPA'S finances. We have exciting things on the horizon!

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LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social · 1d

✍️ 📖 There are more than 2 dozen ways to approach the all important "narrative arc." Many examples here: "Poets: Fast Forward Your Path to Book Publication"
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social
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» Poets: Fast Forward Your Path to Book Publication

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 3d

hey #PoetSky @sfpoetry.bsky.social

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 10d

ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)

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you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025). Ab...

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 5d

so sorry I missed you when tagging!! congratulations!!

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 5d

Two Latinx writers in the Rhysling Award!! 💖 Thank you so so much for including me!! :') And enormous congrats to all the finalists and especially @pedroiniguez.bsky.social for winning in multiple categories!! 😱🎉 Love to you friend, you deserve it! 🫂

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 5d

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to OTHERSIDE Poetry Editor @angelvleal.bsky.social!! "The Witch Recalls Her Craft" is such a beautiful piece, we remain in awe of Angel's work always 💜

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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Mahaila Smith (they/them) @mahailasmith.ca · 6d

So thrilled to share that Water-Kin has won second prize in the Elgin Chapbook award! Congrats to all the nominees and my fellow chapbook authors, Katherine Quevedo and @bugthewriter.bsky.social! You can read Water-Kin for free online here: metatron.press/digipub/wate...

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Richard Leis @richardleis.com · 6d

More favorite poems and poets! Congratulations to all the winners of @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2025 Rhysling Award!

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2025 Rhysling Anthology and Award – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6d

So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to all the winners!

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 6d

"Cockle & Foxfire
built a spaceship

from endangered morpho
wings & pull-tabs secreted
from Polar Seltzer cans.”

Check out my poem "fritillary frigate" in @radonjournal.bsky.social #11! 🎈🦋💫

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fritillary frigate | Issue 11

Radon Journal Issue 11 featuring writers of science fiction and social commentary.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 7d

Enhorabuena to @pedroiniguez.bsky.social for winning the Elgin Award from @sfpoetry.bsky.social for his collection MEXICANS ON THE MOON! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉

#poetry #poetrycommunity #scifi #latinx

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 6d

@sfpoetry.bsky.social just announced the Rhysling awards & Pat Masson's "The Last Valkyrie", published on Forgotten Ground Regained, got an honorable mention!

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A wonderful result for a poem that was (metaphorically speaking) buried with the author thirty years ago!

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Richard Leis @richardleis.com · 6d

Several of my personal favorite recent speculative poetry chapbooks and collections won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2025 Elgin Awards! Congratulations to everyone winning and nominated. It was a phenomenal batch of books this year.

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2025 Elgin Awards – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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felicia martínez @feliciafm.bsky.social · 6d

congratulations @angelvleal.bsky.social!! 💖

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 6d

YESSS @angelvleal.bsky.social !!!

SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

See the official SFPA Rhysling Award page here: sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

2025 Rhysling Anthology and Award – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Long Poem Honorable Mentions

The House of Mulberry Leaves • @ryu-ando.bsky.social • Crow & Cross Keys 2/7/2024

The Final Trick • @angelaliu.bsky.social • Strange Horizons 8/26/2024

Medicine For The Ailing Mortal, as Told in Seven Stories • Silvaticus Riddle • The Fairy Tale Magazine 5/1/2024

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Long Poem Winners

1st Place: The Blackthorn • @marysoonlee.bsky.social • Dreams & Nightmares 126

2nd Place: When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation • Kyle Tran Myrhe • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day 8/6/2024

3rd: The Museum of Etymology • F. J. Bergmann • Star*Line 47.3

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Honorable Mentions

Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean • @sandrakasturi.bsky.social • Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition October

Generation Ship • Akua Lezli Hope • Star*Line 47.3

The Last Valkyrie • Pat Masson • Forgotten Ground Regained 2

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Short Poem Winners

First Place: Lost Ark • F. J. Bergmann • Space & Time Magazine 146

Second Place: A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • @pedroiniguez.bsky.social • Star*Line 47.1

Third Place: The Witch Recalls Her Craft • @angelvleal.bsky.social • Uncanny 60

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners

The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨

Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem

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