2018 Dwarf Stars Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the 2018 Dwarf Stars Award winners.

  • First Place: “The Green”, Kath Abela Wilson (Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace)
  • Second Place: “If She Knew She Was a Ghost”, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Polu Texni 5/22/17)
  • Third Place (tie): “Lo Shu’s Magic Square”, Deborah L. Davitt (Snakeskin #237)
  • Third Place (tie): “Lace at the Throat”, Holly Lynn Walrath (2017 SFPA poetry contest)

The Dwarf Stars Award is given by the SFPA to recognize the best speculative poem of one to ten lines published in the previous year. Winners will have their work reprinted in the 2018 Dwarf Stars Anthology.

For more information, see the SFPA website.


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