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SFPA 2009 Dwarf Stars Winners

By Ian Randal Strock

February 8, 2010

Science Fiction Poetry Association President Deborah P. Kolodji has announced the winners of this year's Dwarf Stars Award, for the best short speculative poems of 10 lines or less published in 2008. The award is voted by the membership of the SFPA.

The 2009 Dwarf Stars Winners are:

First place: "Fireflies" by Geoffrey A. Landis (first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2008)

Second place: "The Leaf Whisperer" by Elizabeth Barrette (Doorways Magazine #5, 2008)

Third place: "Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff" by Jane Yolen (Asimov's, October/November 2008)

Copies of the 2009 Dwarf Stars anthology are still available from the SFPA on this page for $7.

We listed the nominees in this article.

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On February 9, 2010, irv said:

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The anthology had a lot of excellent pieces this year (I'm a member of SFPA and voted). One of the delights of Dwarf Stars is that everything in it is short (under 11 lines) yet still packs a punch.

There were even some interesting one liners this year. Very impressive.

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