#PoetryCommunity 📕 Calling all NetGalley reviewers! ✍️ 💀 ⚰️ "Cancer Courts My Mother" is available. @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @divinationsmag.bsky.social @mgliterary.bsky.social @suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social @golgonoozamag.bsky.social www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

🎨 🖌️ 🧛‍♀️ 🖤 🩸 Praise for the "Vampire Verses" cover art by amazing Jennifer Horgan. @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com @horrorreads.bsky.social @trishcwilson.bsky.social @hdwp.com @csecooney.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @alpbeck.com @dmcwriter.bsky.social

#WritingCommunity Want to sell much MORE? 💰 📚 Your Book’s Best Friend Is a Funnel. Pre-launching used to be a different journey before technology caught up with it. @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social thechrysalisbrewproject.com/2025/02/14/y...

OR: if youre a poet, tell us what youre working on or what you have coming up...

let's talk poetry... tell us about your favorite collection (read or written) or if youve read my work & wanna ask me wtf i was on when i wrote something (or if just wanting insight to a particular piece or entire collection) or link to a fave poetry podcast or book review - whatever you want.

🖤 ⚰️ 💀 Wonderful to see positive reviews for my very personal book about death: "Cancer Courts My Mother." Reviewed by Peter Mladinic for Prolific Pulse Press Blog @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social prolificpulse.blog/2025/10/30/p...

✍️ 🖤 💀 ⚰️ #PoetryCommunity 👏❣️ 5-star GoodReads review of "Cancer Courts My Mother" by @rebecca-linam.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @barbaraleonhard.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social @alpbeck.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The new Rhysling Anthology from @sfpoetry.bsky.social includes Pat Masson's "The Last Valkyrie", a poem FGR published posthumously (she died young of cancer in 1994, and I found her poems in a funeral booklet her mother put together that a relative posted on Ancestry.) sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

#HorrorCommunity 🖤 🐦‍⬛ 🎃 #Halloween2025 🎃 5 spooky pieces rpt from "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" published by 🌟 @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social @alpbeck.com chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/5...

DAY TWO—10 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Until Halloween, I’m posting a creepy poem from my catalog, illustrated by quick & dirty “visualizer” videos. THE SACRIFICES appeared in SYCORAX JOURNAL #2, Feb. 2019 Collected in SLOW BURN: bit.ly/SlowBurnOrder #10daysofHalloween @sfpoetry.bsky.social

#HorrorCommunity Happy Halloween with a SONNET! 🖤🌜🌟🎃🌟🌛 "Body Swap with my Dead Sister on Oct. 31st" in Morsus Vitae @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @alpbeck.com

Happy Halloween! We're excited to officially release our 2025 Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association grant series. Three books: the first about an alien dinner party, the second about an adventurous Cajun werewolf, and the third, a fresh take on SFFH comix. 💙📚 🪐📚 @sfwa.org

Wanna get in the #Halloween mood? Listen to some #speculative #poetry at @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Halloween Reading Free and online! (Scroll down to hear my contribution "Nothing Ghost can Stay") sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...

📖 ✒️ New poetry book seeks reviewers! 💀 🖤 "Cancer Courts My Mother" ARC & Press Kit available @sfpoetry.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @alpbeck.com www.amazon.com/Cancer-Court...

At Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews IFP author Griffin Rockwell on their new book of poetry, LISTEN-a poetic creature, a book-length SFF cento inspired by the greats (and not-so-greats) of SFF history. medium.com/@richaund...

ICYMI: Thanks to #Destinies on @wusbradio.bsky.social for sharing my #poem "Friar's Lantern." (Poem at 17:14) Plus #startrekvoyagerager and #dearcthulhu. cc: @sfpoetry.bsky.social #specpo #radio Click below to listen. captphilonline.com/Destinies/De...

DAY SIX—10 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Every day till Halloween, I’m reposting a spooky video poem. Today’s takes inspiration from Lovecraft & Clark Ashton Smith. EDIFICE first appeared in @sfpoetry.bsky.social’s STAR*LINE,k 2021. Collected in SLOW BURN: bit.ly/SlowBurnOrder #10daysofHalloween

The @sfpoetry.bsky.social Halloween audio poems page is live! Check out my poem "The Price" and many other fine works sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...

I loved this essay for giving me some of the history of speculative poetry. Really useful resource!

new on the SFPA blog! A Time-traveller’s Guide to Speculative Poetry: Part One, Science Fiction sfpoetry.org/wp/2025/10/2...

belated @sfpoetry.bsky.social related announcement: my poem "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To" is in the free @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social BRAINROT anthology for all to enjoy and will be included in fwp 2025 coming soon in print! fifthwheelpress.com/brainrot

Each year for spooky season, SFPA invites its members to share audio files of themselves reading some of their Halloweeniest work, and the 2025 offerings are now LIVE! 🎃 Hear the spooky goodness here: sfpoetry.org/wp/2025/10/2...

hey @sfpoetry.bsky.social

Each year for spooky season, SFPA invites its members to share audio files of themselves reading some of their Halloweeniest work, and the 2025 offerings are now LIVE! 🎃 Hear the spooky goodness here: sfpoetry.org/wp/2025/10/2...

"Medusa’s gaze kills nothing now. Her lipless mouth forms no words. Her hair—uprooted, installed, synced with a city—hums a swan song." I've got a new poem out in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope #58, themed Cyberpunk: "Medusa Circuit" 🧬 eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

“Organic / flesh, the parts not upgraded from god’s design / to man’s, is covered in Lisa Frank tattoos, neon / bright and joyful.” My Y2K cyberpunk poem is available to read at Eye to the Telescope!

Proud of this ETTT issue. The poetry community embraced cyberpunk in wonderful and creative ways. There are even some fantasy-witch cyberpunk poems here. It was a great experience guest editing. Come see how that's possible by clicking the link below

Our Editor in Chief was the guest editor on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's latest Eye to the Telescope issue. The chosen them was "cyberpunk" and the poetry community responded in droves. If you enjoy Radon poetry, you'll absolutely enjoy these twenty poems

Check out the latest Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social! Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

New poem alert! My cyberpunk sonnet is out in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope. Check it out! eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

My new cyberpunk poem "Snitched" is out today in the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

Every day is Indigenous people’s day, and every day is a good day to uplift indigenous speculative poets ✨ Shout out your favorites! Might we suggest Bury My Heart Under the Martian Sky by Juan Manuel-Pérez or Full-metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead to start ✨✨✨

It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26! sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...

Thrilled to share that my poem In Praise of Afro-Cosmicism placed in this @sfpoetry.bsky.social competition. Read: sfpoetry.org/wp/annual-co...

It’s alive! SFPA’s 2025 Halloween Reading series is looking for poems that go bump in the night. Find submission details here, and submit by Oct. 26! sfpoetry.org/wp/halloween...

Announcing the WINNERS of the 2025 SFPA Poetry Contest! Judge @webbish6.bsky.social selected the winning pieces and honorable mentions from a pool of more than 331 anonymized entries. thread/

Announcing the WINNERS of the 2025 SFPA Poetry Contest! Judge @webbish6.bsky.social selected the winning pieces and honorable mentions from a pool of more than 331 anonymized entries. thread/

Always thrilled to work with @penumbricmag.bsky.social 👻 ✉️ 📬📦 Come read my eerie poem "On October 31st" - on how you get your mail delivered in the afterlife. Many SFPA poets are in this issue! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social

#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 blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-m...

🎃 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

📕 ✒️ "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

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!

✍️ 📖 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 authorspublish.com/poets-fast-f...

hey #PoetSky @sfpoetry.bsky.social

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! 🫂

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 💜

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...

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

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!