First Place (TIE)
“Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon” • Jennifer Crow • Star*Line 45.1

First Place (TIE)
“In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White” • Terese Mason Pierre Uncanny 46

Second Place
“Bitch Moon” • Sarah Grey • Nightmare Magazine 118

Third Place (TIE)
“First Contact” • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 44

Third Place (TIE)
“The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End” • Amelia Gorman • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)

Honorable Mentions
“Field Notes from the Anthropocene” • Priya Chand • Nightmare Magazine 116

“Near the end, your mother tells you she's been seeing someone” • Shannon Connor Winward • SFPA Poetry Contest

“Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga” • Stephanie M. Wytovich • Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, ed. Lindy Ryan (Black Spot Books)

First Place
“Machine (r)Evolution” • Colleen Anderson • Radon Journal 2

Second Place
“The Bone Tree” • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)

Third Place
“Igbo Landing II” • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)

Honorable Mentions
“Herbaceous Citadel” • Avra Margariti • The Fairy Tale Magazine January 4

“Living in Rubble” • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)

“The Thing About Stars” • Avra Magariti • The Saint of Witches (Weasel Press)

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Book Design: F. J. Bergmann
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Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association

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• Angels • Frances Skene • Polar Starlight 6
• Anima • Thomas Zimmerman • Pages Literary Journal, November 9
• Animal House Speech • Dave Chandler • Failed Haiku 83
• Anodized Titanium • Mary Soon Lee • Eye to the Telescope 44
• Aswang Shaman Communing with Diwata for the First Time • Vince Gotera • Eye to the Telescope 46
• Australopithecus • Jessica Lucci • How Can I Steal A Purse (self-published)
• bathroom chatter • Matteo L. Cerilli • Augur 5.2
• Beneath Everything The Future Still Exists • Maggie Chirdo • Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds, ed. Katrina Archer (Ganache Media)
• The Best Ambassadors • Adele Gardner • Felis Futura: An Anthology of Future Cats, ed. CB Droege (Manawaker Studio)
• Big Brother, Little Brother, and the Sea • Geneve Flynn • Space & Time Magazine 142
• Biophilia • Sarah Grey • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive
• Bitch Moon • Sarah Grey • Nightmare Magazine 118
• Blå Jungfrun • Deborah L. Davitt • Strange Horizons, September 26
• Black Pastoral: On Mars • Ariana Benson • Paranoid Tree 17
• Blond Dude in a Laundromat • Mary Turzillo • Best of 22 (Ohio Poetry Association)
• Bone November • Sandra Kasturi • The New Quarterly 164
• Cassandra as Climate Scientist • Jeannine Hall Gailey • California Quarterly 48:4
• The Closest Traitor • Richard Magahiz • Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 33:2
• A Creation Myth • John C. Mannone • Songs of Eretz, Spring
• Cursed • Lee Murray • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
• Dark Neighborhood • Cindy O’Quinn • Chiral Mad 5
• Dead in Orange Red • Jamal Hodge • Monthly Musings, May 9
• Derelict Dreams • Bruce Boston • Dreams and Nightmares 121
• Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga • Stephanie M. Wytovich • Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, ed. Lindy Ryan (Black Spot Books)
• Domestic Tranquility • Brian U. Garrison • Radon Journal 2
• Doppelganger • James Arthur Anderson • The Horror Zine, Fall
• Draft • Lavina Blossom • Riddled with Arrows 5.4
• The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End • Pedro Iniguez • Star*Line 45.3
• Equus Aloft • Sterling Warner • Otoliths, February
• Exulansis • Silvatiicus Riddle • Liquid Imagination 51
• Field Notes from the Anthropocene • Priya Chand • Nightmare Magazine 116
• First Contact • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 44
• Fracking-lution • Linda D. Addison • Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
• The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End • Amelia Gorman • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
• Gosh, It’s Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet • Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan • Strange Horizons, November 21
• Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon • Jennifer Crow • Star*Line 45.1
• Helianthus • Eva Papasoulioti • Solarpunk Magazine 5
• Hip Gnomes • PS Cottier • AntipodeanSF 291
• Hockey Night in Canis Major • Gretchen Tessmer • Kaleidotrope, January
• Home from the Wizard Wars • Lyri Ahnam • Silver Blade 54
• The Honorable Iris C. Thaumantos, Presiding • Marsheila Rockwell • Musings of the Muses, eds. Heather & S. D. Vassallo (Brigids Gate Press)
• How to Build an Altar • Angela Acosta • Halloween SFPA Reading
• If I Were Human • Marie Vibbert • Star*Line 45.2
• In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White • Terese Mason Pierre • Uncanny 46
• Intergalactic Baba Yaga • Sandra Lindow • Dreams and Nightmares 122
• It’s Not Utopian If There Are No Fat People • Jordan Hirsch • Utopia Science Fiction, December
• Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea • Mary Soon Lee • Uncanny Magazine 45
• A Lacing of Lavender • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase IX
• Laws of Exponents • John Reinhart • NewMyths.com 59
• Leda Goes To The Doctor • Pankaj Khemka • Carmina Magazine, September
• Letting Flowers Go • Alexander Etheridge • Liquid Imagination 52
• Lines to a Martian (Palabras a un habitante de Marte • Ocre [Editorial Babel: Buenos Aires, 1925]) • Alfonsina Storni, trans. Brittany Hause • Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December
• The Long Night • Ryfkah • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
• Medea leaves behind a letter • FJ Doucet • Star*Line 45.1
• Medusa • Akua Lezli Hope • The New Verse News, November 18
• Medusa Bringing Her Children Back Home • Salt • Patreon
• MetaGender Machine • Linda D. Addison • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
• Mind Compression • Madhur Anand • Parasitic Oscillations (Random House)
• Monitors • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • Star*Line 45.1
• Mother Wicked • Dyani Sabin • Strange Horizons, February 28
• Near the end, you mother tells you she’s been seeing someone • Shannon Connor Winward • SFPA Poetry Contest
• Necklace • Carolyn Clink • Frost Zone Zine 6
• New Planet • Kathy Bailey • Dreams and Nightmares 122
• Od’s Bodkin • Colleen Anderson • Space & Time Magazine 142
• Old Soldier, New Love • Vince Gotera • Eye To The Telescope 45
• On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland • Nicole J. LeBoeuf • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
• The Optics of Space Travel • Angela Acosta • Eye to the Telescope 43
• Petrichor • Eva Papasoulioti • Utopia Science Fiction, April/May
• Pittsburgh Temporal Transfer Station • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 45.2
• Please Hold • Anna Remennik • NewMyths.com 58
• Pluto is Not a Planet • Jamal Hodge • SavagePlanets 2:3
• Pumpkin Ash and Cypress Knees • Katherine Quevedo • Boudin: It Came from the Swamp
• Raft of the Medusa • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 53
• Reasons Why You Can’t Go Out to Play Alone • Victoria Nations • HWA Poetry Showcase IX
• Regarding the Memory of Earth • Angela Acosta • Radon Journal 1
• Sabbatical Somewhere Warm • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Star*Line 45.4
• Sector 431B • Jamal Hodge • SavagePlanets 2:3
• Shipwrecked • Gretchen Tessmer • The Deadlands 12
• Skies over Carson Sink • Joshua Gage • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 1
• A Spell for Winning Your Personal Injury Lawsuit • Marsheila Rockwell • Dreams and Nightmares 120
• Starfall • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Spectral Realms 16
• Status Transcript • Lee Murray • A Woman Unbecoming, eds. Rachel A. Brune & Carol Gyzander (Crone Girls Press)
• Strange Progeny • Bruce Boston • Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
• Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana • Jay Sturner • Not One of Us 69
• Tamales on Mars • Angela Acosta • The Sprawl Mag, October
• Tasted Like Pork • Pankaj Khemka • Ghostlight, Fall
• Terrible Truths • Linda D. Addison • Daughter of Sarpedon: A Tempered Tales Collection, eds. Heather & S. D. Vassallo (Brigids Gate Press)
• Time Skip • Alyza Taguilaso • The Deadlands 16
• Transformation Sequence • Stewart C. Baker • JOURN-E, September
• The Veil • Anna Cates • Otoliths, February
• Villagers • Tim Jones • a fine line, Autumn
• Virgin Mary Meteorology • Patricia Gomes • Muddy River Review, Fall/Winter
• Warming • Maria Zoccola • Nightmare Magazine 117
• The Watcher on the Wall • Rebecca Bratten-Weiss • Reckoning 6
• We Don’t Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End • Jordan Hirsch • The Future Fire 62
• Werewolves in Space • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 121
• What Electrons Read • Mary Soon Lee • Simultaneous Times 31
• What the Old Woman Knows • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Listen to Her UNF, March 23
• What Wolves Read • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 54
• While Traveling Through Deep Space Aboard a Generation Ship • Terrie Leigh Relf • The Drabbun Anthology, eds. Francis W. Alexander & t. santitoro (Hiraeth Publishing)

• Ariadne Threads the Labyrinth • Adele Gardner • Dreams and Nightmares 120
• Barn Cats • Adele Gardner • NewMyths.com 60
• Beautiful • L. Marie Wood • Under Her Skin, eds. Lindy Ryan & Toni Miller (Black Spot Books)
• The Birds Singing in the Rocks • Tristan Beiter • Strange Horizons, October 31
• The Bone Tree • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
• CONELRAD 1960 / COVID 2020 • T. D. Walker • Fireside Fiction, June
• Corvidae • Sarah Cannavo • Liquid Imagination 50
• Crossing Over • Frank Coffman • Liquid Imagination 52
• Crow Daughter • Gabriela Avelino • Kaleidotrope, Summer
• Dark Matter Resume • Lorraine Schein • A Coup of Owls 8
• Darkness • David E. Cowen • The Hand That Wounds (Weasel Press)
• The Dead Palestinian Father • Rasha Abdulhadi • Anathema: Spec from the Margins 15
• Debris • Deborah L. Davitt • The Avenue, May 18
• Drowning in This Sunken City • Deborah L. Davitt • Strange Horizons, July 3
• Eidolon Tetratych • Frank Coffman • Spectral Realms 16
• EMDR • Marsheila Rockwell • Unnerving Magazine 17
• ex-lovers & other ghosts • Herb Kauderer • Cold & Crisp, eds. Rachael Crawford, Shannon Kauderer, Andy Lee, & Lizette Strait (518 Publishing)
• field notes from an investigation into the self • Max Pasakorn • Strange Horizons, August 29
• The First 100 Days • John Reinhart • Star*Line 45.2
• A Fit Place to Live • David E. Cowen • The Hand That Wounds (Weasel Press)
• For You Were Strangers in Egypt • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Nightmare Magazine 122
• From the Ninth Brane • John Mannone • Altered Reality Magazine, February
• From “Poem without Beginning or End” • Vivek Narayanan • Poetry, May
• The Frosty Voyage • Adele Gardner • Eye to the Telescope 46
• Georgia Clay Blood • Beatrice Winifred Iker • Fantasy Magazine 80
• Ghosting Our Steps • Luke Kernan • Anthropology and Humanism 47:2
• Halloween Hearts (for Ray Bradbury) • Adele Gardner • Halloween Hearts (Jackanapes Press)
• Herbaceous Citadel • Avra Margariti • The Fairy Tale Magazine, January 4
• How to Skin Your Wolf • G. E. Woods • Strange Horizons, December 19
• I am the Dragon • Elizabeth Fletcher • Spaceports & Spidersilk, October
• If Houses Could Talk • Lori R. Lopez • The Sirens Call 59
• Igbo Landing II • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
• In the Mirror’s Grip • Jeff Young • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
• In water • Soonest Nathaniel • Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2022 Award Finalists
• Interdimensional Border Town • Lauren Scharhag • Unlikely Stories, August
• Like Thunder in My Head • Gerri Leen • The Fairy Tale Magazine, April
• Lines of Non-Extension • Janis Anne Rader • Consilience, Autumn
• Living in Rubble • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
• Locks • Colleen Anderson • Abyss & Apex 84
• Machine (r)Evolution • Colleen Anderson • Radon Journal 2
• The Machines Had Accepted Me For So Long • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 2
• Matches • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
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• Mouth of Mirrors • Maxwell I. Gold • Seize the Press, June 14
• My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors • Alicia Hilton • Ornithologiae, ed. Mark Beech (Egaeus Press)
• My Great-Grandmother’s House • Madalena Daleziou • The Deadlands 11
• On Meeting Kari Solmundarson of Burnt Njal on a Ghost Ship • Amelia Gorman • Nonbinary Review 27
• One Last Perfect Night • Jill Trade & Joshua St. Claire • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 1
• Persephone in January: A Chant Royal • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • Carmina Magazine, March
• Photographing Sirens • F. J. Bergmann • SFPA Poetry Contest
• The Possession • Anna Cates • Otoliths, June
• Queen of Cups • Crystal Sidell • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December
• Questing Done Right: The Goblin Market • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
• Resilience • Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado • Reckoning 6
• The River God Dreams of Death By Water • Ryu Ando • Abyss & Apex 84
• A Rounded Spell • Alessandro Manzetti • Kubrick Rhapsody (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Seasonal Meat • Jamal Hodge • Chiral Mad 5
• The Second Funeral • Kurt Newton • Synkroniciti 4:1
• Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke) • Gerri Leen • Dreams and Nightmares 121
• Team Enrollment • Herb Kauderer • Scifaikuest, November
• The Thing About Stars • Avra Margariti • The Saint of Witches (Weasel Press)
• Thirteen Ways to Know You Are a Witch • John C. Mannone • Star*Line 45.4
• A Tribute to the Ferryman • Ngo Binh Anh Khoa • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice
• tzedek: the wild hunt • Elisheva Fox • Strange Horizons, November 7
• Uncle Louie’s Farm • Skip Leeds • Pages Literary Journal, August 18
• Virginia Dare Brooks • Francis Wesley Alexander • The Martian Wave III:1
• The Whippoorwill • Lori R. Lopez • Spectral Realms 16
• Who Came from the Woods • Lev Mirov • Strange Horizons, January 3
• Wings • Jordan Hirsch • The Fairy Tale Magazine, February
• Zombie Pirate Ghost • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 54