Delighted to share my tanka [on deep-space freighter] is in the Spring 2026 issue of Star*Line, the flagship journal of the SFPA. Honored to be part of this vibrant speculative poetry community
sfpoetry.org
#poetrycommunity #sfpoetry #amwriting #publicationnews
Longhand Wolves, a poem by Marc Ruvolo from his horror/sff chapbook Creep & Crow (2023)
It's World Poetry Day, so here's one of my mine from my Creep & Crow chapbook, published in 2023. #worldpoetryday #sff #sfpoetry #poetry
Sonder Books Presents: The Open Page
March 14th @ noon SLT (PST)
Sonder Books in Second Life:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/C...
Featured Guest: Indigo Starling (Wendy Van Camp)
All guests receive a 50% off coupon toward Indigo's latest release
#secondlife #poetryreading #booklaunch #sfpoetry
I just published a writing tip #Essay for authors and poets called: Myth as a Gateway to the Future medium.com/p/myth-as-a-...
#poetry #sfpoetry #myth #medium
My tanka, Synthetics First Tear, has been selected for the SFPA Valentine’s Day Reading.
You can hear it (and other amazing poems!) for free here: sfpoetry.org/wp/publicati...
The #SFPA celebrates poetry inspired by science fiction & fantasy.
#tanka #sfpoetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Organizing Creativity: How a Bullet Journal Supports Writers
an essay by Wendy Van Camp
medium.com/p/c8097eabe3b3
#PoetryCommunity #writingcommunity #WritersLife #PoetryLovers #sfpoetry #bulletjournal #planning #organizing #writing #notebooks
SFWA Presents
SPECULATIVE POETRY
BOOK CLUB
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Hosted by Mary Soon Lee
Book: "The Inca Weaver's Tales" by Katherine Quevedo
Winner of the 2025 Elgin Award
Members of SFWA sign up via events page on #SFWA website
#bookclub #sfpoetry #marysoonlee #sciencefiction
#SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open Mic
Host: Gwynne Garfinkle
Featured Poet: Linda D. Addison
Saturday, January 24th at 11:00am Pacific Time
Zoom event free for members of SFWA or Nebula attendees with an interest in poetry.
#sfpoetry #poetry #openmic #speculativepoetry #hwa #horrorpoetry
Rhysling Award Nomination in 2026
for Wendy Van Camp's poem
"Rockets Over Anaheim"
Published in "Anaheim Poetry Review 3"
in November 2025
#poetry #sfwa #sfpoetry #sfpa #rockets #rhysling
For the full series, see:
www.islandofwakwak.com/coffee-table...
#poetry #sfpoetry #sfpa #IslandofWakWak #CoffeeTableChapbooks #chapbook #poetsofbluesky #scifi #fantasy #specpoetry
Join us at #Quasar
Online conference for SFF Writers
Sponsored by #SFWA
11/16/25 @ Noon PST
events.sfwa.org
"Poetry, Flash, & the Power of Hybrid Storytelling"
Mary Soon Lee, Brian U. Garrison, Gwynne Garfinkle, and Jennifer Hudak, Wendy Van Camp
#sfpoetry #writing #poetrycommunity #poetry
"Buff Patrol".
from the "Science Fiction" section of "Contact Light" (Alien Buddha Press) - available from Amazon
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sfpoetry #sfpoem #contactlight #alienbuddhapress
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
Quasar
an online conference
for science fiction/fantasy writers
"Poetry, Flash, & the Power of Hybrid Storytelling"
11/16/25 at 10:30am
With Mary Soon Lee, Brian U. Garrison, Gwynne Garfinkle, and Jennifer Hudak, moderated by Wendy Van Camp.
#SFWA #sfpoetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
"Stockholder".
from the "Science Fiction" section of "Contact Light" (Alien Buddha Press) - available from Amazon
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sfpoetry #contactlight #alienbuddhapress
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social cial
"Temporal Crimes".
from the "Science Fiction" section of "Contact Light" (Alien Buddha Press) - available from Amazon
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sfpoetry #contactlight #alienbuddhapress #thejanuaryreview
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
Thank you to #Eaglecon and Cal State Los Angeles for hosting a performance of speculative poetry troupe "Starlit Scribes" for a second year.
Our poets:
Wendy Van Camp
Pedro Iniguez
Jean-Paul L. Gariner
Bree Wernicke
#sfpoetry #CSULA #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #SFPA #SFWA #HWA
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standing on the bridge
surprised
perhaps
this is a sliding door
moment
#vss365 #perhaps #poem #poetry #senryu ❗️ #smallpoemsunday #specpo #sfpoetry #enterprise
if you could warp away faster than light further than night you might look back with an almighty lens to see the day when Abel met with Cain or simply stay with us to rifle with uncaring hands through history's finest dust pretending truth will outlive all those loving stars and rust
Fe2O3
#promptCombo #history & @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
#poem #poetry #specpo #sfpoetry
"Village in Flight".
(from "Contact Light", out tomorrow from Alien Buddha Press)
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sfpoetry #sfpoem #contactlight #alienbuddhapress #jamesblish
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
This is your fault, witch.
It had a voice like rusty chains.
And cracking joints.
#SFpoetry
futurefire.net/2025.74/fict...
A wonderfully evocative poem "The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight" by @nsborwein.bsky.social (keep scrolling for the perfectly moody art by @floopy-b.bsky.social). #SFpoetry #ScifiArt
The #SFWA Poetry Committee has their first featured poet up on our new YouTube Playlist on the SFWA YouTube channel. This Open Mic episode is hosted by our own Gwyn Garfinkle and the featured poet is Marissa Lingen. #sfpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pmK...
My new collection of S.F. & F. poetry is out in three days' time on the 15th September from Alien Buddha Press - watch this space.
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #sfpoetry #fantasy #myth #horror #sciencefiction
The Write Atmosphere: a #podcast for #writers
#17 The Ins and Outs of Speculative Poetry
Featuring: Poet Laureate Emerita Wendy Van Camp
Hosted by: Hayla Alawi
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1Fym...
YouTube: youtu.be/4vUqTutGQ0k
#sfpoetry #SFWA #newepisode #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
EagleCon 2025
Cal State LA
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA
eagleconla.com/schedule
September 23rd: 10:55AM – 12:00PM
Tiny Poems, Infinite Worlds: The Dwarf Star Awards
#sfpoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity
EAGLECON 2025
Sept 23rd
Location:
Cal State LA
Student Union
3rd Floor
EVENT IS FREE TO PUBLIC
www.eagleconla.com/schedule
12:20PM–1:30PM
Starlit Scribes: Speculative Voices, Timeless Themes
Room (308)
reading & panel discussion with speculative poets from #SFWA, #SFPA, and #HWA #sfpoetry
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= that urban fear =
a malignant drone
or alien
dressed as streetlight
hovering in the night
uncounted
stars
alone
witnessing
your disappearance
(in another million years)
but do not hear your scream
#vss365 #malignant #poem #poetry #vsshorror #specpo #sfpoetry
i see you in electric glass a painted face with pretty pink crafted lippy for an averaged starlet's smile one pout for brief applause hear your polished throat retuning each soft and breathy vowel an utterance that nobody or everyone has not quite said i read your broken lines as stolen william morris centos papering over seeping cracks of borrowed inspiration i smeel the reek of overheated cooling fans in air conditioned corridors where merely human dreams line up to die i see you darling, pimping for Al
i see you in electric glass
#vss365 #reek #poem #poetry #specpo #sfpoetry #ai
#WildWalkPrompt
they walk amongst us
#vss365 #spider #WildWalkPrompt #larvae
#Specpo #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry #vsshorror
