I’m taking advance orders now via PayPal to joannemerriam@gmail.com (or mail a cheque or money order to Joanne Merriam, P.O. Box 41232, Nashville TN 37204 USA). Be sure to include your mailing address in your comments. The chapbook will be selling for US$5.00/Cdn$6.00 (using the SMOASP currency exchange rate) and for advance orders I’m not charging for shipping. (You can request a specific cover or specific number in the series and as long as it’s not already sold out I’ll send that.)

Edgewise will include “The Aviary” (Chiaroscuro, January-March 2008), “The Butterfly Factory” (42 Magazine, Summer 2009), “Deaths on Other Planets” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2008 and Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, 1 February 2009), “Evolution” (Mise En Poem, 22 March 2009), “Last Will and Testament” (Chiaroscuro, January-March 2007), “Ribbons. Lightning.” (On Spec, Spring 2004 and Brain Harvest, 12 September 2009), “Spring in Rutherford County” (Dreams and Nightmares, No. 77), “Stolen Lighters” (PicFic, 17 August 2009), “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds” (Strange Horizons, 12 October 2009), “The Undead in Hospital” (Alba, January 2007), “Venusian Girls are Better” (Coyote Wild, January 2008), “Werepenguin” (Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008), “Work Requirements” (PicFic, 18 August 2009), and six untitled scifaiku (three from Scifaikuest‘s February 2010 print, February 2009 online and February 2009 print editions respectively, and three from Things Japanese in Tennessee, Duthie Learning. September 2008).

2009 Dwarf Stars Anthology

Got my contributor’s copy a few days ago and finally got around to scanning the cover for you all to see. Purty ain’t it? There’s some really excellent stuff in there, including my homegirl Peg Duthie’s “Evolution,” Charles Wright’s “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight” and Jane Yolen’s “Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff.” A complete list of contents is here. The ones I could find online are:

• “Dark Flow” by Francis W. Alexander (Abyss & Apex, Issue 28, 2008)
• “Godmother” by Anna Marie Catoir (Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008)
• “Songs were washing up” by Francesca Forrest (Cabinet des Fees – Scheherzade’s Bequest, Issue 6, Sept 2008)
• “Mistress (1)” by Todd Fredson (Blackbird 7.2, Fall 2008)
• untitled – “shot of whiskey” by Joshua Gage (www.spacewesterns.com, 2008
• untitled – “stars invisible” by Joshua Gage (Mindflights, November 2008)
• “The Tongue-Cut Sparrow’s Song for the Woodsman’s Wife” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Poemeleon, Summer 2008)
• “The Lure of an Older Woman” by Toni J. Gardner (Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, 6.2, 2008)
• untitled – “trying to imitate” by Sanford Goldstein (Simply Haiku, Winter 2008)
• “Study/Violet” by Leonard Gonatarek (Prick of the Spindle, Vol 2.3, Sept 2008)
• untitled – “sailor’s ear” by M. Kei (“The Sailor’s Ear,” Bolts of Silk, 1- February 2008)
• untitled – “just as I” and untitled – “lest we stray” by Mariko Kitakubo (tr Amelia Fielden) from Cicada Forest (Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008)
• untitled – “winter plum branches” by paul m (Mariposa #19, Autumn/Winter 2008)
• “Werepenguin” by Joanne Merriam (Strange Horizons, 10-March-2008)
• “There, where the universe begins” by Terrie Leigh Relf (Astropoetica 6.2, Spring 2008)
• untitled – “dark moon” by Maria Steyn (Simply Haiku, Spring 2008)
• untitled – “strange voices” (pdf) by Dietmar Tauchner (Frogpond XXI, Number 1, 2008)

• “Werepenguin.” Strange Horizons, 10 March 2008.
• “Venusian Girls Are Better.” Coyote Wild. January 2008 Vol 2 Issue 1.
• “The Aviary.” Chizine, Issue #35 (January – March 2008).

I’m fond of these poems, and I hope people will check them out who missed them the first time, but honestly I don’t think any of them are award-worthy. I would suggest people instead consider these two poems which both really struck me this year:

• “Hill and Pail.” Mary Alexandra Agner. Strange Horizons.
• “Phrenology.” Elizabeth Bradfield. Ploughshares.

Asimov’s published “Deaths on Other Planets” in their April/May 2008 issue.

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