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2008 Dwarf Stars Award Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the 2008 Dwarf Stars Award winners.

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the recipient of the 2008 Dwarf Stars Award, which is given to the best short speculative poem of 10 lines or less published in the previous year, as voted upon by its membership.

The 2008 Dwarf Stars winner is "Place Mat by Moebius" by Greg Beatty, originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction.

Greg Beatty lives with his wife in Bellingham, Washington, where he tries, unsuccessfully to stay dry. He writes everything from children's books to essays about his cooking debacles. Greg recently published his first poetry chapbook Phrases of the Moon. It is available from Spec House: spechouseofpoetry.blogspot.com/

Second place went to Sonya Taaffe for her poem, "Muse," originally published in Strange Horizons.

Taaffe has a confirmed addiction to myth, folklore, and dead languages. Her short fiction and poetry can be found collected in Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books). She holds master’s degrees in Classics from Brandeis and Yale. Her livejournal is Myth Happens: sovay.livejournal.com
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Westminister, Colorado poet Ann K. Schwader won third price for her haibun, "Dancing with Van Gogh," which first appeared in Mythic Delirium.

A haibun is a poetry form which combines short prose with haiku. Schwader's poetry has received several Honorable Mentions in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and she is an active member of SFWA, HWA, and SFPA. Her author's Web site is www.geocities.com/HPL4ever/, and her LJ blog Yaddith Times may be found at ankh_hpl.livejournal.com/

Copies of the 2008 Dwarf Stars anthology are still available from the SFPA for $5.00 plus shipping. See the website for details: www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html

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