It is our honor to announce the 2024 Elgin Award winners! The Elgin Award is presented each year by the SFPA for the best book of speculative poetry in the categories of Book and Chapbook published in the preceding two years. Thread/

This feels like a joke Terry Pratchett really, really wanted to use somewhere in a Tiffany book, but he just couldn’t *quite* make it work

Words can't express how excited I am that my poem is out at Small Wonders! I read @smallwondersmag.com when I was first trying to figure out what speculative poetry is, and it got me hooked. I had only read literary poetry prior to that, and had no idea poetry could be like this.

SWsmallwondersmag.comOct 9, 2024 4:10pm

Today's poem, "Traveling at Lightspeed is Easy, Returning to Earth is Hard" by @ianli.bsky.social, looks at the impossibility of returning to a home you once knew well. smallwondersmag.com/...

Traveling at Lightspeed is Easy, Returning to Earth is Hard - Small Wonders

Come home to discover the moon’s face is unfamiliar, / mottled with mega-mines and starship ports.

And now, the 2024 Rhysling Award winners! ✨✨✨✨ thread

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Heard a lot of crinkling while I was trying to write, this is what Artemis was up to

Hi! I've created an SFFH BIPOC starter pack! Please share around! Also please reply if you'd like to be added (I'm making this an opt-in list)! #sciencefiction#fantasy#sff#horror#writinggo.bsky.app/6WxXXBY

This post has several things I like: sci-fi, Radon Journal, and statistics (and rejectomancy perhaps?).

RJradonjournal.bsky.socialSep 13, 2024 10:28pm

Click to view our Issue 8 infograph in all its statistical glory. Our second-most submissions recorded. Dystopia and anarchist stories reached records for Issue saturation. Transhuman remains the lowest as previous issues, and only two stories not being expressly science fiction in some manner.

A bit about me: Chinese-Canadian economist/writer/dev/data analyst/poet/brainteaser enthusiast - really vibing with spec poetry lately Used to be math geek. Then I discovered writing last year. Now a word geek Short attention span - share your favourite flash fiction/short poems with me!

Need some more speculative poetry in your life? Of course you do! go.bsky.app/LTrkqEV