SF & F Poetry Assn
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The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association is for writers and lovers of science fiction, fantasy, horror and other spec poetry. Skeets by SFPA Team. sfpoetry.org
🎦 VIDEO — 🎃🧛Dracula Plans His Annual Hallowe'en Soiree: Stoker skipped the 1 night a vampire count gets stressed From the "Vampire Verses" poet! @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @hdwp.com greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/video-drac...
🎃 VIDEO — Dracula Plans His Annual Hallowe'en Soiree:
Stoker skipped the one night a vampire count gets stressed to the max
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Coming soon: "Past Tense: Portraits and Poems of Suicides" 📖 ✒️ 🖤 @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social
Join me and @hwaoregon.bsky.social, @sfpoetry.bsky.social and more organizations at the @wilwrite.bsky.social Writer's Fair tomorrow night at 5–7 p.m. And check out this year's auction items on the way into the fair. Books can be expected, but there's so much more in these 50 packages.
(There are many more. Feel free to reply with your favorite magazine that publishes both fiction and poetry.) There are even magazines that ONLY publish speculative poetry. Three of my favorites are Dreams & Nightmares, Eye to the Telescope, and Star*Line. See @sfpoetry.bsky.social for 2 of those
Haven Spec Magazine@havenspec.bsky.social · 4d agoOur general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/
Explore the literary communities of Portland. Come say hello on Friday night! Thanks for hosting @wilwrite.bsky.social
SF & F Poetry Assn@sfpoetry.bsky.social · last wk.Portland based poets! It's time for the 2026 Writer's Fair! Catch our very own @bugthewriter.bsky.social, Katherine Quevedo, and @richardleis.com The event is free, and a great chance to connect with community groups. 5 – 7PM Friday Belmont Ballroom ⬇️ willamettewriters.org/2026/02/25/5...
A must-read, beautiful (& haunting) poem by @mimulus.bsky.social in this years Rhysling anthology from the @sfpoetry.bsky.social
Rick Hollon@mimulus.bsky.social · 7d agoMy copy of the 2026 Rhysling Anthology, containing my long-form finalist poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings,” arrived today!
Portland based poets! It's time for the 2026 Writer's Fair! Catch our very own @bugthewriter.bsky.social, Katherine Quevedo, and @richardleis.com The event is free, and a great chance to connect with community groups. 5 – 7PM Friday Belmont Ballroom ⬇️ willamettewriters.org/2026/02/25/5...
TODAY, beloveds! our first poem of issue 43 🖤 "Maybe you’re beautiful and like all of us, had fears Maybe you picked the wrong mask, so we never saw your face." Maybe by @phodiso-modirwa.bsky.social read the full poem here 💀 psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Maybe - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
We will not negate. We’ll avoid but entirely / when we speak
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Pat Masson also (posthumously) got an honorable mention in the 2025 Rhysling award competition by @sfpoetry.bsky.social for her poem "The Last Valkyrie" written in the extremely difficult Norse form, drottkvaett, used by Viking poets to praise kings & impress poets alliteration.net/poetry/the-l...
The Last Valkyrie: A Poem in Alliterative Verse by Patricia Masson
Woman, by her weird lured, / waiting stands, for the land’s / king, so called, and his long / craft, wading deep laden.
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ICYMI: Thanks to Destinies on @wusbradio.bsky.social for sharing my #poem “We Used To Be Astronauts.” (This poem will appear in the forthcoming collection Women In Space!) Poem at 8:10 captphilonline.com/Destinies/De... cc: @sfpoetry.bsky.social #specpo #poetrycommunity #scifi #womeninspace
Rain Corbyn (They/Them)@raincorbyn.bsky.social · last wk.Haruspex will be open to audiobook queries in two weeks, for two weeks, with a further week only for BIPOC applicants. Queer, weird, horror, smut, messy genrefucked experimental insanity, send it my way! DEETS: haruspex-audio.com/pages/work-w...
I am overjoyed that the Poetry Hugo Award has once again PASSED. It will need to be re-ratified in 2029 to be officially officially permanent. Complicated rules aside, thank you to everyone who voted or supported this goal. Us poets truly love y'all! To read more about this see poetryhugo.com
Speculative Poetry Initiative
What Works Are Available for Nomination in the 2026 Awards?
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#HorrorCommunity 🧛🩸🦇 #Vampires #Video — “Carmilla Queer Mother of Gothic Horror” by the “Vampire Verses” poet @hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @dmcwriter.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @alpbeck.com youtu.be/kgFZKJCnAx8
Carmilla Queer Mother of Gothic Horror
YouTube video by LindaAnn Literary
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Currently, there are poetry awards at most of the major genre awards and organizations, including the Nebula Award (hosted by SFWA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, starting in 2025), the Rhysling, Elgin, and Dwarf Star Awards (Hosted by the SFPA @sfpoetry.bsky.social
🧙♀️ 🖤 Darkly delighted to be included in “Witches Save the World: Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right” - edited by Rebecca Buchanan. Many SFPA poets are in this anthology! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @lyradora.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social
Educators: our newest project is open for submissions! We're putting together a full-length collection on the topic of poetry in education, edited by Dr. Jones Irwin, our poetry critique columnist. Please feel free to share the link! redogrereview.submittable.com/submit 📚💙
This market list from @sfpoetry.bsky.social shows how various markets pay for poetry. My preference as a poet is a flat rate. sfpoetry.org/wp/resources...
Market List – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
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My Uncle Larry hosted poker games in a violently haunted house. 👻 "Poltergeists on President Street" The AUDIO from my reading with @swsworlds.bsky.social is posted below! @bibliophile99.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/poltergeis...
Poltergeists on President Street by LindaAnn Lo Schiavo
The memory knocks insistently, rattles its chain.
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Review of "Cancer Courts My Mother" by Nigel Kent and posted on July 18, 2026 @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/r...
Review of ‘Cancer Courts My Mother’ by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
At a time when approximately one out of three people is likely to experience cancer at some point in their lives, it is perhaps unsurprising that the illness’s effects on individuals, families and …
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#HorrorCommunity 🧛 🦇 "Vampire Verses" gets a 5-star review from Jennifer Vasquez! @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @bibliophile99.bsky.social @southerngirlraven7.bsky.social jennvasquez.com/2026/07/18/v...
‘Vampire Verses’ by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Delivers Poetry to Sink Your Fangs Into
‘Vampire Verses’ by LindaAnn LoSchiavo reimagines vampires in an amusing way. Check out my review and interview with the author!
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Out newest SFPA Round-Up is live! Click through to see what your fellow SFPA members were up to in June: sfpoetry.org/wp/2026/07/1...
SFPA June 2026 Round-Up – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
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SFPA’s Annual Poetry Contest is open to subs until Aug 31st! Past winners include Colleen Anderson, F. J. Bergmann, Deborah L. Davitt, Angela Yuriko Smith, Akua Lezli Hope, Bruce Boston, and more! Further details: sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co... @sfpoetry.bsky.social @mrpoemguy.bsky.social
🧛 ✒️ Keeping The Undead Alive: On Writing “Vampire Verses” — from Carmilla to Dracula and Beyond 🩸 Come read my Guest Post & my spec-po "Carmilla"! @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social twisteddreamspress.com/keeping-the-...
Keeping The Undead Alive: On Writing “Vampire Verses” — from Carmilla to Dracula and Beyond (Guest Post) - Twisted Dreams Press
by LindaAnn LoSchiavo I. The Contradiction Writers are not vampires. And yet we are the ones responsible for keeping them alive. J. Sheridan Le Fanu was, by every measure, an unlikely candidate for th...
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#WritingCommunity Most book launch marketing is announcement marketing. EX: “The book is out. Here is the link.” Announcement marketing does not sell books. Reader-focused conversion content does @sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social youtu.be/gaFJpp-6CnE?...
What to Do When Your Book Launch Didn't Go the Way You Planned
YouTube video by Jenn Hanson-dePaula
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