Dwarf Stars Award
Presented by: Science Fiction Poetry Association
For: The best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of ten lines or fewer published in English in the prior calendar year
| Winner | Perish and Live Forever | Pedro Iniguez |
| Runner-up | "old junkyard" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Finalist | "warp drive folds spacetime" | Jean-Paul L. Garnier |
| Nominee | "seedtime" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | "spring morning" | Pravat Kumar Padhy |
| Nominee | "Spotting aliens in a crowd" | Yuliia Vereta |
| Nominee | Spectral Rune | Max Bindi |
| Nominee | Space being | Pravat Kumar Padhy |
| Nominee | "sole survivor" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The smog bowl | Yuliia Vereta |
| Nominee | Small Reveals | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | "singing a song..." | Kimberly Kuchar |
| Nominee | Sibling Rivalry | Jenny Thompson |
| Nominee | "shapeshifter Halloween party" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "selling horrible alien bugs" | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "sun through a prism—" | Julie Schwerin |
| Nominee | "scrapyard..." | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "rolling fog" | Kimberly Kuchar |
| Nominee | "refugees everywhere ..." | Lesley Anne Swanson |
| Nominee | "refugee moon" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Red Tide | Shane D. Keene |
| Nominee | "red Sol" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | recyling | Crystal Sidell |
| Nominee | "rebuilding the reef" | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | "vampire rest home" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "flying back to earth" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "your planet's not gone—" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "The world's first time traveler" | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | Who | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Whirlpool | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | When the Devil Enters Through the Door | Faruk Buzhala |
| Nominee | "When riding" | Sarah Mahina Calvello |
| Nominee | What Evil Lurks | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | We Will Become Mars | A. J. Dalton |
| Nominee | "VR sim—" | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | "practicing safe sex" | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | untitled | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | The Universe singing | Yuliia Vereta |
| Nominee | "train station" | Gordana Vlašić |
| Nominee | To Love Too Much | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | To Hail a Late-Night Taxi | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | "threefold symmetry" | Mark Gilbert |
| Nominee | Terricolousia | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | "tardigrade" | Jerome Berglund |
| Nominee | "swimming free" | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | "a sunbeam slowly hardens into thought" | Vijay Prasad |
| Nominee | Hush | Angela Acosta |
| Nominee | The Primal Cry | Yuliia Vereta |
| Nominee | Lunar Beast | LindaAnn LoSchiavo |
| Nominee | A line of prayers | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "Light glances off the..." | Mahaila Smith |
| Nominee | Lianus Astros | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | It Wasn't as If... | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Intangible viscera | Yuliia Vereta |
| Nominee | "in the cold night park" | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | In Hungry Times | H. V. Patterson |
| Nominee | "in flying cars" | Jill Trade |
| Nominee | "a man of mere bones..." | Brian Rosenberger |
| Nominee | The Hive Relocating to Planet Earth | Crystal Sidell |
| Nominee | "halloween time warp still green" | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | "Halloween terror" | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | "generation ship" | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | The Future Is Here | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | "a fawn steps" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | "a fawn steps" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | The Eye | Kayla-Jane Barrie |
| Nominee | Erasure | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "endless" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | Night Song | Johanna Haas |
| Nominee | "the egg moon" | Tejendra Sherchan |
| Nominee | "Pluto crosses Neptune." | Brian U. Garrison |
| Nominee | Pity They're Now So Rare | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "the path away" | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "a parallel universe..." | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | Origins | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "one for the road" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | On the Way Here | Corinne Hughes |
| Nominee | "nudist colony..." | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | Manhattan 2081: The Physiognomy of Fear | Alicia Hilton |
| Nominee | "Neptune" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "my first spacewalk" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Musings of an Artificial Intelligence | Jenny Thompson |
| Nominee | Multiversal | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | "moonlight fishing" | Brian Rosenberger |
| Nominee | "monthly expenses" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "mind readers marry..." | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | "migrating dragons" | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "Medusa's mansion raided" | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | The Mechanical Bride | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | "Andromedan spring" | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Graver Gravities | Brian U. Garrison |
| Nominee | "another Adam..." | Tracy Davidson |
| Nominee | "autopsy report" | Ngô Bình Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "big bang the expanse of our silence" | Eavonka Ettinger |
| Nominee | binary system | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | "blind date" | Ngô Bình Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "body swap" | Tracy Davidson |
| Nominee | The Boy Who Knew No Fear | H. V. Patterson |
| Nominee | "burial pod" | DL Mattila |
| Nominee | "by jack-o-lantern light" | Brian Rosenberger |
| Nominee | "Cerberus in Wonderland" | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | "cicadas were their bridesmaids starlings their ushers" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "cold dreams" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "a conscious mind ̶̶ " | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | "crescent moon" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | death is a less terrible thing | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | "Defenestration" | Jason P. Burnham |
| Nominee | Depth | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "devil's hour—" | Valentina Ranaldi-Adams |
| Nominee | Draco Urbis | Marie Brennan |
| Nominee | The Dying Girl | Jamal Hodge |
| Nominee | "Earth day" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Astrosommelier | R. Mac Jones |
| Nominee | Golden Shovel: Lon Chaney, Jr. As "The Wolf Man" | LindaAnn LoSchiavo |
| Nominee | What Villains Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Winner | "the infinite possibilities of trees" | Xiao Xi |
| Runner-up | All-Kinds-of-Fears | Amelia Gorman |
| Finalist | Nikola Tesla | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "All Saints Day" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "alone in deepest space" | Gabriel Smithwilson |
| Nominee | "among the fallen maple leaves" | Thomas Zimmerman |
| Nominee | "and the sun goes round" | Scott Metz |
| Nominee | Annual Report | Michael H. Payne |
| Nominee | "ants up and down" | Maurizio Brancaleoni |
| Nominee | "apocalypse diet" | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "autumn equinox..." | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | Awakening | Jay Sturner |
| Nominee | "bedtime story" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | Bela Lugosi | Jean Jones |
| Nominee | "black ice" | Roberta Beary |
| Nominee | "Black Moon" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | "blue moonlight" | Hifsa Ashraf |
| Nominee | "[boiling over" | Barrie Levine |
| Nominee | By Its Cover | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "by the fridge" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | caress | ayaz daryl nielsen |
| Nominee | "chalk flowers bloom" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | the chosen one | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "cities blinking out" | Ed Brickell |
| Nominee | "corn maze" | Ron Scully |
| Nominee | Cornucopia | Ian Willey |
| Nominee | "crawlspace his soul wriggles free" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | "crows filing for custody of the last apocalypse" | Cherie Hunter Day |
| Nominee | "death watch" | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | "deep autumn..." | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "deep in ghostweather the bone light of chyrons" | John Pappas |
| Nominee | Disrespectfully | Beatrice Winifred Iker |
| Nominee | Doppelgänger | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Downlift | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | "bomb shelter" | Jay Friedenberg |
| Nominee | "a barge" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "draped" | Thomas Tilton |
| Nominee | "earthlight" | Tyler McIntosh |
| Nominee | "egoless at last the moon's face dims" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | Einstein joins the magic circle | Diana Webb |
| Nominee | Enchanted | C. L. Sidell |
| Nominee | Fading Echoes | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "finding" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | "first blizzard" | Petro C. K. |
| Nominee | "Gondoliers strum strings" | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | "grief" | Thomas Tilton |
| Nominee | Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972) | Jessy Randall |
| Nominee | "galactic wind ..." | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | "a handful of stars" | Lesley Anne Swanson |
| Nominee | "hard rain tonight" | Thomas Zimmerman |
| Nominee | "harvest moon—" | Hla Yin Mon |
| Nominee | Healing by Good Intention | Egbiameje Omole |
| Nominee | "home alone" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "I swallow" | H. V. Patterson |
| Nominee | Ice and Fire | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | "in a dark bazaar" | Barun Saha |
| Nominee | In Dreams of Fossils | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | Joan of Arc | Jean Jones |
| Nominee | "last page" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Lesser Realities | Brian U. Garrison |
| Nominee | Maxikins Surfs Space | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | microcosm | Russell Nichols |
| Nominee | "moons rising" | Shelli Jankowski-Smith |
| Nominee | Haikuniverse - 2023 | Rick Lupert |
| Nominee | "long forgotten dream" | Hifsa Ashraf |
| Nominee | The Observer | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Persephone Takes Up the Garnets | Ursula Whitcher |
| Nominee | "petrichor" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | The Philadelphia Experiment | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Positronic Effigy | Marie Vibbert |
| Nominee | Prayer for the Old Voyagers of Earth | Angela Acosta |
| Nominee | Pulsar | James Arthur Anderson |
| Nominee | "quantum fluctuations" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | "red leaves the wood chipper raining blood" | Rich Schilling |
| Nominee | "red sun rising ..." | Chad Lee Robinson |
| Nominee | Returning to Dark Skies | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Secret Keeper | Mark J. Mitchell |
| Nominee | "sitting in the dark" | Jill Trade |
| Nominee | The Sky Was Falling | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | Sleeping Beauty's Lament | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Nominee | "snake eyes" | Gloundan Smorpian |
| Nominee | "solar flare aftermath" | Stephen C. Curro |
| Nominee | "peat fire" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | "redshift" | Julie Schwerin |
| Nominee | Requiem | Shelly Jones |
| Nominee | Sijo | Mariel Herbert |
| Nominee | "space debris ..." | Pravat Kumar Padhy |
| Nominee | Space Problem | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "spangled stars" | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | "spiderwebs" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | Standardized Education | Mahaila Smith |
| Nominee | Starbarque | Harris Coverley |
| Nominee | Stargames | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Stasis | Jessica Lucci |
| Nominee | Storm God | Carma Lynn Park |
| Nominee | "sweeping up" | Eavonka Ettinger |
| Nominee | Tapping on the Void | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | "tick" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | Travelogue | Jean-Marie Romana |
| Nominee | two glottal stops | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Nominee | UAP | Wendy Van Camp |
| Nominee | "under" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "unsure of how to hold myself" | Royal Baysinger |
| Nominee | Up in the Air | Ian Willey |
| Nominee | Valley of Ashes | Diem Okoye |
| Nominee | "w ing" | Victor Ortiz |
| Nominee | "waking yet not waking ..." | Chen-ou Liu |
| Nominee | We Both Loved You | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | What We've Left | Holly Day |
| Nominee | What Ghosts Didn't Do | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | "winter chill" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "winter night —" | Debarati Sen |
| Nominee | Wish | Emily Jiang |
| Nominee | "witching hour" | Rich Schilling |
| Nominee | "We've seen him now ..." | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Beyondness | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | "for the always was and always will be press 1" | Patrick Sweene |
| Nominee | Souvenir from the Center of the Universe | Peter Payack |
| Winner | Believe the Graves | Rasha Abdulhadi |
| Winner | In Perpetuity | Bruce Boston |
| Runner-up | Excerpt from a Proposal for the New City | Alyssa Lo |
| Finalist | As Slow As Starlight | Kim Whysall-Hammond |
| Finalist | Surviving | Sumiko Saulson |
| Finalist | Trichotillomania | Warsan Shire |
| Nominee | "abducted by aliens now I feel needed" | Ken Slaughter |
| Nominee | AI can't believe it's not human | Ken Slaughter |
| Nominee | "parallel worlds" | Ken Slaughter |
| Nominee | "ancient archives" | Helen Ogden |
| Nominee | interstellar flight | Eva Joan |
| Nominee | "the sudden chill" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "two hearts" | Valentina Ranaldi-Adams |
| Nominee | sky memorial | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | "absentmindedly" | Nick Hoffman |
| Nominee | "deep-space mission" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "morning newspaper" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | her leafy blush | Tyler McIntosh |
| Nominee | my robot boyfriend | Jenny Thompson |
| Nominee | Tea Dragon | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "chill Halloween evening" | (xeno-unit) |
| Nominee | Another Day, Another Year | Ann Christine Tabaka |
| Nominee | Aurum | Mariel Herbert |
| Nominee | "bedtime story..." | Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta |
| Nominee | "months after his death" | Joseph P. Wechselberger |
| Nominee | "discarded pie" | Keith Evetts |
| Nominee | Shelter | Koji A. Dae |
| Nominee | A Bird in Hand | Shelly Jones |
| Nominee | Bureaucratic | Mahaila Smith |
| Nominee | Bury Me Under Fallen Stars | Victoria Nations |
| Nominee | Butterfly Effect | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | Cancer Surgery on Half a Shell | Mariel Herbert |
| Nominee | Night at Ithaca | Federica Santini |
| Nominee | The Changing Face of Fear | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | charged particles | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "K-9 expansion pack" | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | "cocktail hour" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | "a corpse" | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Dreamcaster | Angel Leal |
| Nominee | The Cosmologist Dreams of Venus | Aaron Sandberg |
| Nominee | The Dwelling | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | The Cover-Up | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | The Curse of the Clock | Joe Haldeman |
| Nominee | Dark Secret Garden | Max Bindi |
| Nominee | Date Night | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | "a derecho" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | Kyoka | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | Earthlings Among Us | Michael McCormick |
| Nominee | Eldritch Mother | Melodie Bolt |
| Nominee | The Explorers Return | Goran Lowie |
| Nominee | Fifth Tongue | Eva Papasoulioti |
| Nominee | "finally able" | Matthew Wilson |
| Nominee | Finest Particles' Dance | Yuliia Vereta |
| Nominee | For Khione | Shelly Jones |
| Nominee | "Four-faced doll" | PS Cottier |
| Nominee | "long story short" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "sawdust protected our torsos" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "Frankenstein" | Eavonka Ettinger |
| Nominee | "sometimes a wish" | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "spaceship window..."" | Mark Gilbert |
| Nominee | The Garden of Night | Andrew White |
| Nominee | "Glastonbury" | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | long after... | Roberta Beary |
| Nominee | Globular Cluster | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | golem | Marisca Pichette |
| Nominee | Holocene Park: AIs | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | "Leafy alien" | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "locking eyes" | Barun Saha |
| Nominee | Masquerade | Rachel Tyle |
| Nominee | Maxime | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | mea culpa | Eugen Bacon |
| Nominee | "meteor sizzling" | Anna Cates+Sharon H. Frost |
| Nominee | "midnight the sun moonlighting" | Tim Cremin |
| Nominee | Most highly honored | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "multiverse" | A. J. Wentz |
| Nominee | "mushroom cloud" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | My Daughter, in Her Silver Sky | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | Never Was a Princess Girl | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | "No price is too high" | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | Nor Am I Out of It | Noah Berlatsky |
| Nominee | Ode to Harriet | Alicia Hilton |
| Nominee | "planetarium" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | Questions for the Fallen | Omodero David Oghenekaro |
| Nominee | "skeleton eyes" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "rereading" | Peggy Hale Bilbro |
| Nominee | "rain shadow" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | Shore Leave | James Arthur Anderson |
| Nominee | "show me, I said" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "snakeskin tote glistens" | Gary W. Davis |
| Nominee | "a stack of turtles" | Mahaila Smith |
| Nominee | "star gazing" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | Sunlight Loves a Crystaline Structure | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Tasty | Greg Fewer |
| Nominee | "termination shock" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Thanks for Nothing | Randall Andrews |
| Nominee | "thinning hurt" | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Time and Again | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | Time Travel II | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | "the universe" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Vampire Therapist | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | What Fairy Godmothers Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | "wolf moon" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | "wishing this" | C. K. Petro |
| Nominee | "mourning" | Colleen M. Farrelly |
| Nominee | "diameter pi the lake solves for moon" | Kat Lehman |
| Nominee | A Vision of the Future | J. Y. T. Kennedy |
| Winner | Poem with Lines from my Son | Jen Stewart Fueston |
| Winner | What Trees Read | Mary Soon Lee |
| Runner-up | Colony | Jamal Hodge |
| Finalist | Future Portrait of Dark Matter | Gene Twaronite |
| Nominee | "across eons" | Barun Saha |
| Nominee | After All This Time | Robin Mayhall |
| Nominee | "all" | Michael J. Galko |
| Nominee | "all this rain" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | --And They All Lived Together-- | Andrew J. Wilson |
| Nominee | "between her breasts" | Tyler McIntosh |
| Nominee | Black Beak (a Nonet) | B. Sharise Moore |
| Nominee | Blow | Holly Day |
| Nominee | The Burning River | Hal Y. Zhang |
| Nominee | Callisto Dreaming | Mariel Herbert |
| Nominee | Closer | Matthew Daley |
| Nominee | Damsel in Distress Redux | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | "Down in the river" | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | "Earth fills the window" | Stephen C. Curro |
| Nominee | Epitaph for the Old Ones | Maxwell I. Gold |
| Nominee | exoplanet fossil | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Exsanguination | Lena Donnarumma |
| Nominee | Fatherless | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | Fetch | Gerri Leen |
| Nominee | "fingers stroking spines" | Joshua St. Claire |
| Nominee | Funeral for a Star | Yuna Kang |
| Nominee | Fury | Lee Murray |
| Nominee | "Globules of light" | Katerina Bruno |
| Nominee | A Haiku Howdunit Murder Mystery | John H. Dromey |
| Nominee | Hard Return | Michele Mekel |
| Nominee | "a hissing leak in the airlock" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Hitting the Red Line | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "I'm trying to sleep" | Marcus Vance |
| Nominee | In Memoriam: Spring | Dan Bornstein |
| Nominee | "landing at the" | Brian Garrison |
| Nominee | "left my late father's" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Love on Halloween | D. J. Tyrer |
| Nominee | Mexico City, 2101 AD | Juan Manuel Perez |
| Nominee | Mother | Merie Kirby |
| Nominee | Night Spell | Deborah W. Sage |
| Nominee | Older Red Riding Hood in the Woods Behind Her House | Carol Berg |
| Nominee | "One touch The softest kind" | Doug Gant |
| Nominee | Orbital Mechanics | Ian Goh |
| Nominee | Past Equinox | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Perils of Using Traditional Practices in Modern Cults | Marcie Lynn Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Riding Down a Dream | Melissa Ridley Elmes |
| Nominee | Sasquatch Burial Ground | Raven Jakubowski |
| Nominee | "seeking" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Slam | Jean Gallagher |
| Nominee | Strings | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | "sturgeon moon" | Nick Hoffman |
| Nominee | Sunita Soars | Tony Daly |
| Nominee | "Take Your Child to Work Day" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | "tattoo inked on your arm" | Matthew Wilson |
| Nominee | There Goes the Security Deposit | Sarah Cannavo |
| Nominee | Tracks | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "two belief zones..." | Barbara Candiotti |
| Nominee | Two Mountains | Brian Rosenberger |
| Nominee | Typographical Error | John Kaprielian |
| Nominee | Vampire Selfies | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | Watchmaker | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | "we flip through" | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | "what they left behind" | Richard Magahiz |
| Nominee | "white balloons" | PS Cottier |
| Nominee | "adding ellipses" | Hifsa Ashraf |
| Nominee | "after a downpour" | Anatoly Kudryavitsky |
| Nominee | "as galaxies form" | Wendy Van Camp |
| Nominee | "bewitching hour" | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Black Swan | Sharmon Gazaway |
| Nominee | "brother beamed" | Guy Belleranti |
| Nominee | The Closet | Jennifer Loring |
| Nominee | "cold soup" | Roland Packer |
| Nominee | "cricket song" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "dark sky country" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Expect Them to Arrive with Song | Jordan Hirsch |
| Nominee | Feline Reinforcements | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | The Final Fairy | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "freeze-dried" | Sakyu |
| Nominee | "ghost writer" | Hemapriya Chellappan |
| Nominee | "half-heard whispers' | Tracy Davidson |
| Nominee | The Heart of the House | M. J. Holmes |
| Nominee | "horror movie" | Mark Gilbert |
| Nominee | "in a deserted garden" | Padmini Krishnan |
| Nominee | "a kind of afterlife" | Roberta Beary |
| Nominee | "kohl stick" | Vandana Parashar |
| Nominee | "left behind on Earth" | Semi |
| Nominee | "long-dead stars" | Lev Hart |
| Nominee | "longest" | Julie Schwerin |
| Nominee | "magic mirror" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "The modified plants" | Debby Feo |
| Nominee | "moon walk" | Valentina Ranaldi-Adams |
| Nominee | "moonscape" | Kat Lehman |
| Nominee | Narcissus Now | Diane Jackman |
| Nominee | Niche | Jason P. Burnham |
| Nominee | NĂĽ Wa and Earth | Ellen Huang |
| Nominee | "the octopus dreams" | Pippa Phillips |
| Nominee | "the offworlders didn't" | Roxanne Barbour |
| Nominee | "pad 39" | Topher Dykes |
| Nominee | "peaceful Halloween" | Ayaz Daryl Nielsen |
| Nominee | Penny Dreadful | Stephanie Staab |
| Nominee | "pouring rain" | Cherie Hunter Day |
| Nominee | Prince Charming Sleeps with the Fishes | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Reflections on the Rescue of a Fawn | Shelly Jones |
| Nominee | "riding lightning" | Akua Lezli Hope |
| Nominee | Riverside | Avra Margariti |
| Nominee | "scratched" | Kelli Lage |
| Nominee | Small Blue Poem | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | "Something remains" | Rebecca Lilly |
| Nominee | Straw Maidens | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | Sunburn Affairs | Imogen L. Smiley |
| Nominee | "superstring" | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | Ten Squared | R. K. Rugg |
| Nominee | "theremin" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | "under the earth" | Tia Haynes |
| Nominee | "the Universe" | Alan Summers |
| Nominee | "unzipping" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | "water lily ..." | Francine Banwarth |
| Nominee | White Flag | Tim Gardiner |
| Nominee | "widdershins" | Kirsten Cliff Elliot |
| Nominee | "Zen garden" | Adjei Agyei-Baah |
| Nominee | "Jonbar hinge" | Thomas Tilton |
| Winner | Yes, Antimatter is Real | Holly Lyn Walrath |
| Runner-up | The Softness of Impossible Fossils | Robert Borski |
| Finalist | Frozen Hurricanes | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "6 months" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "alien hovercraft" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "bacon and coffee" | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | "black rabbits" | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | Blue Mood | Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | "bovine witnesses" | William Shaw |
| Nominee | "downwind" | Nick Hoffman |
| Nominee | "driving home" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "every lover" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "the FTL squad" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "how bright you shine" | Monica Louzon |
| Nominee | I Think the Article Said Something about First Contact | R. Mac Jones |
| Nominee | Lesser Eternity | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Light Voyager | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | "lonely robot" | Noel Sloboda |
| Nominee | "right at home" | Leroy Gorman |
| Nominee | Sailing the Seas of Lune | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Saint George's Lament | Jacob Bergstresser |
| Nominee | seasonal greeting | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "shapeshifter" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | Sheets | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | "Sotheby's Lot 9" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Surreal Agenda | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "t)here" | Leroy Gorman |
| Nominee | "thrown away in recycling" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "Zombie Night" | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | "alternate history" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Brain Software Warning | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | Cracked Mirror | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | Fairy Ring | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Document Search | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | "fireflies" | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Garden | Kim Goldberg |
| Nominee | "head in one hand" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | More Than a Feeling | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "on a pirate ship" | Lana M'Rochel |
| Nominee | "winter jasmine" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | Phoenix | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | "adrift in space" | Semi |
| Nominee | "springtime on Pluto" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "probably mist" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | Runaway Greenhouse Effect | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "happy hour" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "photons in knit and purl" | Kimberly Nugent |
| Nominee | "wet market" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | "the winged demons come" | Greg Fewer |
| Nominee | How to Tidy the Asteroids | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | "evil comes always" | Juan Manuel Perez |
| Winner | Standing Up | John C. Mannone |
| Runner-up | "There are fossils" | Mark A. Fisher |
| Finalist | 2015 Zinfandella | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | Aeolus | Brian Gene Olson |
| Nominee | "baby born healthy" | Ngo Binh Anh Khoa |
| Nominee | Balancing Act | Deborah L. Davitt+D. A. Xiaolin Spires+Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | "beyond its two eyes" | Juan Manuel Perez |
| Nominee | "bioluminescence" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | "clear winter night" | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | "black widow spider..." | Valentina Ranaldi-Adams |
| Nominee | Cold Weather Accessories for Imaginary Creatures | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | "dancing with the stars" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Death Spiral, Korolev Crater | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | "dystopic future" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Epitaph for John Carter | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Erwin Schrodinger | Jean-Paul L. Garnier |
| Nominee | "Feast of St. George--" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | "For her who laid and hatched my egg," | Ronald A. Busse |
| Nominee | "gentlest quiver" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "gestating through space--" | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | "a glimpse" | Hazel Hall |
| Nominee | "glow-in-the-dark fruit" | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "H3N2" | Leroy Gorman |
| Nominee | "harvest moon" | Barbara Tate |
| Nominee | The Haunting | Lucy Whitehead |
| Nominee | "her gentle kisses" | Ayaz Daryl Nielsen |
| Nominee | "hoping for the best" | Johannes S. H. Bjerg |
| Nominee | How to Notice a Dark Nebula | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | How to Time Travel | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | "human flesh transformed" | Brian Gene Olson |
| Nominee | "I read the future" | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Infection | Roger Dutcher |
| Nominee | "iron in the dunes" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "The knife blade flutters" | Colleen Anderson |
| Nominee | "leaving Saturn" | Leroy Gorman |
| Nominee | loose change | Allan Rozinski |
| Nominee | "mass into photons" | Kimberly Nugent |
| Nominee | "memorial day visit" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | "moonlight" | Duro Jaiye |
| Nominee | the music of Luna's pull | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Mystery Multiplied | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "New Earth's many moons" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "night sieved city of light" | Joseph Salvatore Aversano |
| Nominee | Notes for the Next Letter Home | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The Old Ones: A Ghazal | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "ordinary flashlight" | Tom Sacramona |
| Nominee | "peeling night" | Alegria Imperial |
| Nominee | "placoderms sizzling" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | ragtime gal | Brittany Hause |
| Nominee | Recent Federal Postings | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | red shirts | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "reeking of time" | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "ritual at dawn" | Carmen Duvalma |
| Nominee | "seeing stars" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | A Simpler Time | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "space station yoga" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | "stale morning smog" | Nick Hoffman |
| Nominee | "still can't decide" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "stream of consciousness" | William Shaw |
| Nominee | "through the portal" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | Tikbalang | Vince Gotera |
| Nominee | Tree in Drought | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | The Trophy Room | Andrew J. Wilson |
| Nominee | "Voyager outbound" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | what she knows for sure | Cathy Tenzo |
| Nominee | When Death Comes Back | Cindy O'Quinn |
| Nominee | "within sight" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "zen garden" | Helga Anton-Beitz |
| Nominee | "the ghost wife" | Gloundan Smorpian |
| Nominee | she had broken | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "stargazing on Olympus Mons" | Greer Woodward |
| Winner | Embalmed | SofĂa Rhei |
| Runner-up | where to hide an alien in plain sight | LeRoy Gorman |
| Finalist | Negative Space | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | anniversary | Brittany Hause |
| Nominee | Annie Jump Cannon Cataloged Stars | Jessy Randall |
| Nominee | "another atom" | Michelle Muenzler |
| Nominee | Archaeopteryx | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "at the farm gate" | Joy McCall |
| Nominee | The Bar-Fly Dilemma | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | "cannibalizing parts" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Changeling | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Cold Spot | Kimberly Nugent |
| Nominee | "death flowers" | Roxanne Barbour |
| Nominee | Cybernetic Harvest | Deborah L. Davitt+D. A. Xiaolin Spires+Gretchen Tessmer |
| Nominee | Everything started with the Big Bang, they say | Juanjo Bazán |
| Nominee | The Evolutionary Race | Peter Payack |
| Nominee | "first frost" | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Failing Masterpiece | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "first spacewalk" | Nick Hoffman |
| Nominee | "full autumn moon--" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "a full moon rising" | Gloundan Smorpian |
| Nominee | Ghazal | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "Her hair" | Annie Sheng |
| Nominee | How to Betray Sagittarius A* | Mary Soon Lee |
| Nominee | "I move toward ..." | Mel Goldberg |
| Nominee | "infinity--" | Stewart C. Baker |
| Nominee | iSpell | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | "the little girl" | Jennifer Hambrick |
| Nominee | "my every night ..." | Marilyn Humbert |
| Nominee | Never Trust a Vampiress | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | News Update | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "on the ship from Earth ..." | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | the philologist | Brittany Hause |
| Nominee | Rapunzel | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Reaching | D. A. Xiaolin Spires |
| Nominee | "return trip to earth" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | "spaceship window--" | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | structural damage | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Surreal Lust | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "their drone ship came to Earth" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "There was an A.I. from Key West" | Robert Dawson |
| Nominee | "vampire job fair" | William Landis |
| Nominee | The Alchemy of Grief | Bob Lucky |
| Nominee | "all that flickers" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | "canoe..." | kjmunro |
| Nominee | Datasphere | Susan Gray |
| Nominee | The Everlasting Self | Tracy K. Smith |
| Nominee | The Fabulist of Familiars | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | I'll Go Under | Robin Wyatt Dunn |
| Nominee | In the Secret Garden | Susan Beth Furst |
| Nominee | "pi day" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "it is late" | ai li |
| Nominee | Life on the Moon v1.0 | Trent Walters |
| Nominee | Men on Mars and Witches from Venus | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | "OR gate" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Pillars of Creation | Jason Gray |
| Nominee | Psalm | Peter Adam Salomon |
| Nominee | Six Meter Surge | Mark C. Childs |
| Nominee | Solar Eclipse | Joy Reed McVane |
| Nominee | Stargazing | Tiffany Shaw-Diaz |
| Nominee | Tau Lyrae | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | To Io | Mindy Watson |
| Nominee | The Weed-Filled Path | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | Year 2028 | Valentina Ranaldi-Adams |
| Nominee | "a newborn's cry" | kjmunro |
| Nominee | "moebius strip" | Lucy Whitehead |
| Nominee | "all my nightmares" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | At Last | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | "autumn leaves" | Dave Read |
| Nominee | blink | Jim Kacian |
| Nominee | [Cameo] | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "crash of waves" | Paul Geiger |
| Nominee | "crow moon" | Caroline Skanne |
| Nominee | "crystals of nitrogen" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "emerging" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "empty house" | Maryalicia Post |
| Nominee | "fire)" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | The Gravity of Loss | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | H+ | Anna Cates |
| Nominee | "his hands" | RĂ©ka Nyitrai |
| Nominee | "in-laws at the door" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | "lava sizzles..." | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "night shore" | John Hawkhead |
| Nominee | Nothing Left | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | "ocean swim" | Peter Jastermsky |
| Nominee | "the old fisherman" | Ron C. Moss |
| Nominee | "pumpkin stem" | Srinivasa Rao Sambangi |
| Nominee | "red dawn..." | Dietmar Tauchner |
| Nominee | Root Bound | M. C. Childs |
| Nominee | "sea in winter..." | Lucia Cardillo |
| Nominee | "space station chapel" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | "view from the spaceship" | Serhiy Shpychenko |
| Nominee | "waitless" | David J. Kelly (poet) |
| Nominee | "water poured" | Caroline Skanne |
| Winner | The Green | Kath Abela Wilson |
| Runner-up | If She Knew She Was a Ghost | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Finalist | Lo Shu's Magic Square | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Finalist | Lace at the Throat | Holly Walrath |
| Nominee | "abandoned colony roof" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "absolute zero" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "after last year" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | "alien restructuring-" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Alien Dowry | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Beauty, Sleeping | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | Betsy Ross | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "bloody spindle" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Carbon Footprint | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Chiasmus | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | The Colors of Time | Deborah L. Davitt |
| Nominee | "depleted plutonium" | Alan Summers |
| Nominee | "doomsday clock" | DL Mattila |
| Nominee | "down to earth" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | "everything" | Joan Prefontaine |
| Nominee | "first time away from snow" | Billy Antonio |
| Nominee | "footprint in red dust" | Frank Coffman |
| Nominee | For in that Sleep, What Nightmares... | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "fresh back from weeks in space" | Lisa Timpf |
| Nominee | Full Moon Forecast | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "ger-" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | Ghoul Cloud | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | "graveyard" | Tiffany Shaw-Diaz |
| Nominee | "ICU" | Billy Antonio |
| Nominee | If it will help you think of me as Sappho | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | If Only a Werewolf | Minadora Macheret |
| Nominee | "instead of a halo" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | keeping company | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | The Little Laser Girl | Lorraine Schein |
| Nominee | "loose ends" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "lunar graveyard" | William Shaw |
| Nominee | Marbles | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | "Monday morning" | Gregory Longenecker |
| Nominee | "multiverse theory" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "maybe there are" | M. X. Kelly |
| Nominee | "nightcap her smile widens" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "old red barn--" | Mark E. Brager |
| Nominee | "the odds" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "only hours out" | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "orbiting Neptune" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "painting fences" | Alan Summers |
| Nominee | "red planet--" | Sam Bateman |
| Nominee | Rock, Paper, Scissors (Human vs. Robot Finals) | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "ruby sky" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "Saturn's rings" | Marietta McGregor |
| Nominee | "scent of blackened" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "seconds before" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Separation Anxiety | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | "silent jump" | Tom Sacramona |
| Nominee | Space Efficient | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "time snake" | N. E. Taylor |
| Nominee | "time travel dining" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Time Travel No 7 | Soren James |
| Nominee | "to save space" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Vampire Fortuneteller | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "what if the ferryman" | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | "year end" | paul m. |
| Nominee | "zombie chic" | Helen Buckingham |
| Winner | "aster than" | Leroy Gorman |
| Runner-up | Lover | Holly Day |
| Finalist | Loss | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | "abandoned farm" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | "across the universe" | Alan Ira Gordon |
| Nominee | "alighting" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | another moon | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "attempting to align" | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Brave New World | Scott Mason |
| Nominee | Cenotaph Moon | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Craving | Shannon Connor Winward |
| Nominee | "Cypress trees on fire" | Denise Dumars |
| Nominee | "dead jackrabbit glares" | David Lee Summers |
| Nominee | Demon Lovers | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | Dia de Los Muertos | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | "don't go looking for" | Michael Ch'ong |
| Nominee | "drooping tulips" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Epitaph for an Ogre | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | "the face looked up" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "fetching the bones" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "the first calligraphy—" | Ruth Holzer |
| Nominee | First to Draw | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "Garden statues for sale" | Matthew Wilson |
| Nominee | "grasping" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | "growing child inside her belly" | William Landis |
| Nominee | "his totem animal" | David McKee |
| Nominee | "howling at the rise" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "icy roads" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "immortality" | James D. Fuson |
| Nominee | Intersections | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | "knitting for nieces" | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Mercury | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | Needs Repairs | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | New Planet Landscape 15 | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | "next to the infant's grave" | Manos Kounougakis |
| Nominee | No Reception | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | "no shore" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | "our bodies" | Debbie Strange |
| Nominee | "pandemonium" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "planet of flowers" | Ayaz Daryl Nielsen |
| Nominee | Pluto | Shelly Bryant |
| Nominee | "printing our children" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Pterosaur | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | R'lyeh | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "ready shuttle droid" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | "red apples" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | The Red Barn | David Clink |
| Nominee | The Red Spacesuit | Brian Garrison |
| Nominee | "root cellar" | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "the serrated song" | Carlos ColĂłn (II) |
| Nominee | "speed of light—..." | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "the speed of light ..." | Joy Reed MacVane |
| Nominee | "spring migration" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | The Surreal Monster | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Talking to the Dead | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "teeth of ferns" | David Boyer |
| Nominee | "thin moon" | David Boyer |
| Nominee | "tomorrow will return" | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | "under a bright moon" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "visiting day" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | The Werewolf Returns | William John Watkins |
| Nominee | What'll It Be? | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | The Woods Look Up | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Year of the Cottonmouth | Crystal Boson |
| Nominee | "yellow eyes aglow" | Rich Magahiz |
| Nominee | "zombie party" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Winner | We Begin This Way | Stacey Balkun |
| Runner-up | "at the barre" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Runner-up | The Doorman | F. J. Bergmann |
| Runner-up | Weathering | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Finalist | Alice was chasing white rabbits out of a black hole | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | Accident-Prone | Susan Rooke |
| Nominee | "back on earth" | Robert Piotrowski |
| Nominee | Anomaly | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "awake after surgery" | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | Bees Fell Asleep | Grzegorz WrĂłblewski |
| Nominee | Black Hull, Greenheart | Susan Grimm |
| Nominee | Boston to Providence | Carrie Etter |
| Nominee | Classified II | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "crumbling castle" | Greer Woodward |
| Nominee | "Comicon" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | Creation Myth (1981) | Iliana Rocha |
| Nominee | Driving 80 MPH at Night | William Cullen, Jr. |
| Nominee | "daybreak" | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | "hell-bent" | Susan Burch |
| Nominee | "the economy of a solar system..." | Ralf Bröker |
| Nominee | A Field | Amelia Martens |
| Nominee | Gretel | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | How We Sing | Katharine Coles |
| Nominee | jellyfish | Beth Langford |
| Nominee | "late winter" | Kristen Deming |
| Nominee | Notes for Next Week's Sermon | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | The Man with Red Eyes | Christina Sng |
| Nominee | "methane rain" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "night sky" | Susan Antolin |
| Nominee | "shapeshifter" | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | "November rain" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Placebo Effect | Roberta Beary |
| Nominee | Scissors Series | Arielle Greenberg |
| Nominee | "she said" | DL Mattila |
| Nominee | "they claimed our star" | C. R. Harper |
| Nominee | "steam rises" | David McKee |
| Nominee | tail in Winnipeg | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Thor and Saturn's Tête-á-tête | Maceo J. Whitaker |
| Nominee | "time portal wedding" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "upturned faces" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "warm the blur..." | Michelle Tennison |
| Nominee | What Dolls Eat | Karen Bovenmyer |
| Nominee | "when hell freezes over" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "the window cleaner's ladder" | Mark Holloway |
| Nominee | Wish | Rebecca Buchanan |
| Winner | "abandoned nursing home" | Greg Schwartz |
| Runner-up | Princess: A Life | Jane Yolen |
| Finalist | The Square Root of Doppelgängers | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Their Nature | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Nonfiction | Jonel Abellanosa |
| Nominee | Witch's Primer, Lesson 4 | Erik Amundsen |
| Nominee | "jupiter a pixel..." | Joseph Salvatore Aversano |
| Nominee | the explorer | Ross Balcom |
| Nominee | Pink Unicorns | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Surreal Shopping List | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Not Only Thoats | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "her perfume" | David Boyer |
| Nominee | "thunderhead losing" | Mark E. Brager |
| Nominee | Song for Otter | Alicia Cole |
| Nominee | Shellac | P. S. Cottier |
| Nominee | The Fate of Worlds | William Cullen, Jr. |
| Nominee | "it's recycling day" | William Cullen, Jr. |
| Nominee | "through icicles" | Septimiu M. Cristian |
| Nominee | "moment of peak oil" | William Cullen, Jr. |
| Nominee | "Valentine's Day" | Rebecca Drouilhet |
| Nominee | The Lonely Future of Philip K. Dick | Adele Gardner |
| Nominee | "fangs in a glass" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "building my first clone" | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | "a long look" | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | "new galaxy" | Lorin Ford |
| Nominee | "a new bridge" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "garbage in--garbage out" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Pro-Life | K. L. Hasell |
| Nominee | "martian greenhouse" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Dragon Girl | C. E. Hyun |
| Nominee | Roadkill | Michael Kriesel |
| Nominee | Private Source | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | Restoration | Herb Kauderer |
| Nominee | First Encounter | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | "cyborg surgery" | Sandra J. Lindow |
| Nominee | "Fermat's last theorem" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "drones..." | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Holly King | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | Cosmic Choice | Alan Meyrowitz |
| Nominee | Zatanna's Haiku | P. Andrew Miller |
| Nominee | Bone Song | Mari Ness |
| Nominee | Queen of Cups | A. J. Odasso |
| Nominee | "before the great upload" | Eric Otto |
| Nominee | "beside the forlorn robot" | Eric Otto |
| Nominee | "her fingerprints" | Eric Otto |
| Nominee | scent of a corpuscle | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | dream | John Reinhart |
| Nominee | Trinket Earth | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Everyone was stealing... | Claudia Serea |
| Nominee | In Conclusion | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | Downstairs Up | Neal Wilgus |
| Nominee | "by chance" | James Won |
| Nominee | "Cthulhu partners" | Greer Woodward |
| Winner | And Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound | Mat Joiner |
| Runner-up | The Loss | Mari Ness |
| Finalist | Hourglass | David Clink |
| Nominee | "about 600 light years" | Dietmar Tauchner |
| Nominee | Ambassador to the Abyss | Michael Kriesel |
| Nominee | Ambient Noise | Howie Good |
| Nominee | April | Nita Sembrowich |
| Nominee | "beagle brain" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | Because You Are an Expert in Such Matters | Ron Czerwien |
| Nominee | Beneath | Rhonda Parrish |
| Nominee | "beyond graves field" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "bleached bones" | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | This Bus Stop Was a Coral Reef, Once | Megan Arkenberg |
| Nominee | "cardamom seeds" | Pat Tompkins |
| Nominee | A Conversation Between a Time Traveler and His Apprentice | David Livingstone Clink |
| Nominee | "Damage! The space-" | Manos Kounougakis |
| Nominee | "easier to see" | Tony Burfield |
| Nominee | An Elegy for Evelyn Cream | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | "Death hides in corners" | Gary C. Busha |
| Nominee | Effigy | Kim L. Neidigh |
| Nominee | Even an Empty Life Can Hold Water | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | "evolution" | Dietmar Tauchner |
| Nominee | "A gate in rubble" | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Gorgon Hair Care | Laura Garrison |
| Nominee | Grief | Jennifer Jerome |
| Nominee | "gripping a portal" | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Haiku for H.P. Lovecraft and E. Schrödinger | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Haiku for H.P. Lovecraft and J.A. Wheeler | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | How to Write Poems #2573 | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "hypnotic regression" | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | I am learning to forget | Dominik Parisien |
| Nominee | "i blow out the candles" | Dietmar Tauchner |
| Nominee | If Sappho Studied Egyptology | Alicia Cole |
| Nominee | Impermanent Frost | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | Internal Architecture | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Invasion | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | The Journeymaker, Climbing | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | Larva | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | "last dance" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "lights still on" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "Look, the On symbol" | Manos Kounougakis |
| Nominee | Making Rice Dance | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | mechanical cat | Livia Finucci |
| Nominee | Marie Antoinette, 2125 | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Moral | Alicia Cole |
| Nominee | "mostly air" | Joyce Clement |
| Nominee | "Native noises, nonstop" | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | Newest Amsterdam | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | "no groundhog" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | One Planet, Under Gravy | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Prometheus | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "quantum drive failure" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | A Questionable Immortality | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "the robot ponders" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | "The robot seagull" | Manos Kounougakis |
| Nominee | "satellites crashing" | Patricia Tompkins |
| Nominee | Schrodinger's Box | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | Seeds of Love | Sandi Leibowitz |
| Nominee | Shifts in Production | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Stirring Time | Lauren McBride |
| Nominee | The Sun in Stereo | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | "their language sounds like knives" | Patrick Armstrong |
| Nominee | "the thunder lizards" | Steven Wittenberg Gordon |
| Nominee | Unicorn Tea | J. Mirio |
| Nominee | The Werewolf Explains | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | "a werewolf's nightmare" | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | What We Carry | Beth Cato |
| Nominee | Where the Rabbits Run, Near the Shore | Alicia Cole |
| Nominee | Why the Scientist Owns a Persian Carpet | N. E. Taylor |
| Nominee | Why We Get Viruses | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | "the winged serpent, draco" | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | "a worm flaps on razor wings" | Patrick Armstrong |
| Winner | Basho after Cinderella (III) | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Runner-up | The Hidden | Mary Turzillo |
| Finalist | Sarcophagus | N. E. Taylor |
| Nominee | Again Boredom | Lida Broadhurst |
| Nominee | "alien princess" | Ross Balcom |
| Nominee | "all that remains" | Lauren Mayhew |
| Nominee | "black market barter" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | Bone Song | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Book Wyrm | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | A Cautionary Note from the Time Thief | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Charred | Jeffrey Park |
| Nominee | Cognizance: A Triptych | Kurt MacPhearson |
| Nominee | "dark figure" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Desert Protocol | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Electric Touch | Angel Favazza |
| Nominee | "endless weeks of zero-g" | Melissa Frederick |
| Nominee | "evening sun" | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | Fairy Beekeeper | Adrienne J. Odasso |
| Nominee | "falling star" | Rafał Zabratynski |
| Nominee | Ghosts | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | "the girl stood sideways" | Rich Magahiz |
| Nominee | The Green Man Answers the Classifieds | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | "the half-light of your eyes" | Semi |
| Nominee | "Human Beings from Earth" | David Glen Larson |
| Nominee | A Huntsman's Dilemma | A. B. S. Dudevaunt |
| Nominee | Let Me Tell You About Dawn | M. Frost |
| Nominee | The Mermaid's Winter Song | Brittany Warman |
| Nominee | "murderer's diary" | Joanne Morcom |
| Nominee | "our ship" | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Nominee | Ovid on Climate Change | Eliza Griswold |
| Nominee | Parade | Brian Rosenberger |
| Nominee | "particles dancing" | Albert W. Grohmann |
| Nominee | "petals falling in riotous profusion" | Yunsheng Jiang |
| Nominee | Pregnant with Rapunzel | Laura King |
| Nominee | The Price You Have to Pay | John M. Edwards |
| Nominee | "reflected moon" | Albert W. Grohmann |
| Nominee | Regretful Orbits | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | Replacement | Dennis M. Lane |
| Nominee | The Robot As Engineering Assistant | Ken Poyner |
| Nominee | "a running train" | Yunsheng Jiang |
| Nominee | "silence now" | Albert W. Grohmann |
| Nominee | "singularity" | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Sneezing in Zero-G | Melissa Frederick |
| Nominee | Tell Me About Passion | John C. Mannone |
| Nominee | "tendrils caress" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "that card" | assu |
| Nominee | They Wanted Smaller Government | Mark Danowsky |
| Nominee | Three Alien Koans | Greg Beatty |
| Nominee | "the undead" | David Clink |
| Nominee | "Wanted: octopoid" | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | While They Sleep | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | "will my full hair" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Wishing It Were Otherwise | Alan Meyrowitz |
| Nominee | "The world quivers" | José Luis Zárate |
| Nominee | "wormhole opening" | Simon Kewin |
| Nominee | Yule Night | Chris Friend |
| Nominee | The Zombie Orchestra | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Winner | Blue Rose Buddha | Marge Simon |
| Runner-up | Closure | Greer Woodward |
| Finalist | Snowflake Galaxies | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | "Adrift in the spacecraft" | Michael Arnzen |
| Nominee | "The albedo of angels" | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | Alien Life | Pat Tompkins |
| Nominee | All folk have legends of her | David Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | "amidst the black churning..." | Jim Kacian |
| Nominee | "anorexic girl" | John W. Sexton |
| Nominee | Before Science Stepped In | Rod Usher |
| Nominee | California Vamp | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | "coal-dark tombstone" | George Swede |
| Nominee | Containers | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Elemental | Cheryl Stiles |
| Nominee | "Endlessly bitching when birds" | Aurelio Rico Lopez, III |
| Nominee | Eulogy | Alexandra Seidel |
| Nominee | "first kiss" | Albert Schlaht |
| Nominee | Graffiti | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | "Graveside spell spoken" | Marsheila Rockwell |
| Nominee | "Hallow's Eve" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | Grey-Eyed | Emily Jiang |
| Nominee | Harvest | S. Brackett Robertson |
| Nominee | The Lives of the Stars | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | "lunar base 5" | Semi |
| Nominee | Macrocosmic Propagation | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | The Magic Walnut | SofĂa Rhei |
| Nominee | Matinee Motel—Hollywood: Two Humans | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Nominee | "the more space" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Necropsy | John R. Platt |
| Nominee | "nearly Mars" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "new colony" | Randy Brooks |
| Nominee | "night sky" | Dietmar Tauchner |
| Nominee | "particles decaying..." | Melissa Allen |
| Nominee | "the perfect evening" | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Nominee | Protocol | F. J. Bergmann |
| Nominee | Robespierre Had the Greenest Eyes | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Nominee | The Robot Scientist's Daughter [Polonium-210] | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | Rules for Playing Hide and Seek in a Cornfield | Jamie Wasserman |
| Nominee | S E T I | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Song of the Machines | Suzanne Sykora |
| Nominee | Star Ghazal | Holly Jensen |
| Nominee | Surreal Wish List | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Taking the Auspices | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | 10 things to know about staplers | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | Time to Go | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Nominee | "The unborn gods stir..." | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | Unland, Unlife | Anita Allen+Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Vanity | Juan M. Perez |
| Nominee | Voyages of the H.M.S. Whitechapel | Robert Borski |
| Nominee | "wedding night" | Victor Piñeiro |
| Nominee | What Ray Taught Me | Jenny Rossi |
| Nominee | The World's Scriptures | Gene Doty |
| Winner | Comet | Julie Bloss Kelsey |
| Runner-up | Tapping the Vine | Sonya Taaffe |
| Finalist | "Returning" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Bluebeard's Grandmother | Sandra Kasturi |
| Nominee | "Solo missions, I do all I can" | Camille Alexander |
| Nominee | "stargazing" | Aurora Antonovic |
| Nominee | "in the mouth" | Roberta Beary |
| Nominee | Ceres | Karen Berry |
| Nominee | "I pause a moment" | Dawn Bruce |
| Nominee | Ghost / Machine | Shelly Bryant |
| Nominee | "snakes and ladders..." | Helen Buckingham |
| Nominee | "butterfly" | Beate Conrad |
| Nominee | The Wailing Well | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | "in zero gravity" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "deforested planet" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | Sleeping Beauty's Court | K. S. Hardy |
| Nominee | "red wheat" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | "gingerbread house" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | Trickster Weather | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "spatters of blood" | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Nominee | Walrus | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | On Stopping for Directions | Wendy Rathbone |
| Nominee | In the Hydroponic Garden Aboard Survey Station E319... | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Haute Couture | Matt S |
| Nominee | They Held My Heart | Jenny Schwartz |
| Nominee | "the house software" | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Nominee | "eleven minutes" | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | "your view" | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | Howard d'oeuvres | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | "October" | Peter Yovu |
| Winner | Bumbershoot | Howard V. Hendrix |
| Runner-up | The Selkie's Children | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Finalist | The Men All Pause | Stephen Wilson |
| Nominee | "valentine's day" | Megan Arkenberg |
| Nominee | "is anyone else..." | John Barlow |
| Nominee | Endings | Elizabeth W. Bennefeld |
| Nominee | "cats worship" | Carolyn Clink |
| Nominee | "sitting" | Linda Galloway |
| Nominee | "way out there" | LeRoy Gorman |
| Nominee | "abandoned planet" | John Grey |
| Nominee | "the winking" | Michele L. Harvey |
| Nominee | "parental pride" | Carolyn M. Hinderliter |
| Nominee | "alien atmosphere" | C. William Hinderliter |
| Nominee | "by my side" | Elizabeth Howard |
| Nominee | Headstones | Major Jackson |
| Nominee | "this house" | Joyce Sandeen Johnson |
| Nominee | Losing Weight | Tim Jones |
| Nominee | "needing to sleep" | M. Kei |
| Nominee | "blue sunset" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | The Surface of Venus | Geoff Landis |
| Nominee | Burns at Both Ends | Rose Lemberg |
| Nominee | "with a cheap beach towel" | paul m. |
| Nominee | "her hand in mine" | paul m. |
| Nominee | "Jedi mind trick—" | Tanya McDonald |
| Nominee | "telling fortunes..." | Vasile Moldovan |
| Nominee | "meteor shower" | Joanne Morcom |
| Nominee | "falling on your face" | Scott Nicolay |
| Nominee | Alien Invasion | Peter Payack |
| Nominee | Top Five Reasons Not to Rebel Against Your Alien Overlord | Jennifer Schwabach |
| Nominee | "snow light–" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | "afternoon drive—" | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | "blue sky" | Semi |
| Nominee | Night Phenomenon | Marge Simon |
| Nominee | "the network" | Dan Smith (poet) |
| Nominee | The Blue of Neptune | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | Intraocular Implant | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | "Stockholm Syndrome—" | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | Article of Faith | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | On Its Own | Anna Sykora |
| Nominee | Apotropaism | Sonya Taaffe |
| Nominee | "sun spots:" | Pat Tompkins |
| Nominee | Undertaker: An Acrostic | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | threading dreams | Kimberly Zajac |
| Nominee | "tattered flesh" | Noel Sloboda |
| Winner | Fireflies | Geoffrey A. Landis |
| Runner-up | the leaf whisperer | Elizabeth Barrette |
| Finalist | Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff | Jane Yolen |
| Nominee | Dark Flow | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | "the will-o-the-wisp" | Francis W. Alexander |
| Nominee | Return of Zombie Teen Angst | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | "time machine rust" | Megan Arkenberg |
| Nominee | The Ghoul | Megan Arkenberg |
| Nominee | "stars against the night..." | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | Three Things | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | Godmother | Anna Marie Catoir |
| Nominee | "I felt your presence" | Margaret Chula |
| Nominee | Special ears | Toi Dericotte |
| Nominee | Evolution | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | "time lapse" | Margarita Engle |
| Nominee | Songs Were Washing Up | Francesca Forrest |
| Nominee | Mistress (1) | Todd Fredson |
| Nominee | "shot of whiskey" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "stars invisible" | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | The Tongue-Cut Sparrow's Song for the Woodsman's Wife | Jeannine Hall Gailey |
| Nominee | The Lure of an Older Woman | Toni J. Gardner |
| Nominee | "quantum mechanics" | James A. Gianforti |
| Nominee | "trying to imitate" | Sanford Goldstein |
| Nominee | Study/Violet | Leonard Gonatarek |
| Nominee | "full moon" | John Grey |
| Nominee | "sailor's ear" | M. Kei |
| Nominee | "the dead rise" | M. Kei |
| Nominee | "moonless world" | Patricia Kelly |
| Nominee | "just as I" | Mariko Kitakubo |
| Nominee | "lest we stray" | Mariko Kitakubo |
| Nominee | "in spite of your absence..." | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | "thin alpine air" | paul m. |
| Nominee | "winter plum branches" | paul m. |
| Nominee | Werepenguin | Joanne Merriam |
| Nominee | "on the footpath" | Linda Papanicolaou |
| Nominee | "falling stars" | Claudia Coutu Radmore |
| Nominee | There, where the universe begins | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | "one foot on Mars" | Karen A. Romanko |
| Nominee | "in the mouth" | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | "dark moon" | Maria Steyn |
| Nominee | "from outer space" | George Swede |
| Nominee | "strange voices" | Dietmar Tauchner |
| Nominee | Refugee | Paul Kareem Tayyer |
| Nominee | "closer to the moongate" | Linda Jeannette Ward |
| Nominee | "wet sand" | Michael Dylan Welch |
| Nominee | In the Beginning or the End | N.C. Whitehead |
| Nominee | 2062 | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight | Charles Wright |
| Nominee | "we all met..." | Lee Clarke Zumpe |
| Winner | Place Mat by Moebius | Greg Beatty |
| Runner-up | Muse | Sonya Taaffe |
| Finalist | Dancing to Van Gogh | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Duel | Cathy Ackerson+Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Whale Riding | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | Sackful of Satellites | Mike Allen |
| Nominee | Nikki's Comet | Donald R. Anderson |
| Nominee | "my friend" | Dave Bacharach |
| Nominee | Curse of the Strangler's Wife | Bruce Boston |
| Nominee | "the red maple buds" | Lisa M. Bradley |
| Nominee | Auld Lang Syne | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | "museum of alien religions" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | Redshift; or, the Theory of General Relativity | M. Frost |
| Nominee | Kerouac | Joshua Gage |
| Nominee | "New galaxy" | Tom Galusha |
| Nominee | In the Light Room | John Garrison |
| Nominee | Test-Tube Universe | Sarah Glass |
| Nominee | "abduction scene" | ushi |
| Nominee | "grief becomes" | Marilyn Hazelton |
| Nominee | Clone | Berrien C. Henderson |
| Nominee | "Once upon a time" | Charlee Jacob |
| Nominee | "an October day" | M. Kei |
| Nominee | "the wind sings" | M. Kei |
| Nominee | A Mind Full of Stars | Bridget Kelley-Lossada |
| Nominee | Rhea's Lament | S. A. Kelly |
| Nominee | "as if" | Mariko Kitakubo |
| Nominee | "witch branding" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Necessary Evil | David W. Landrum |
| Nominee | Springheel Jack | Roddy Lumsden |
| Nominee | "crescent moon" | Jeannie Martin |
| Nominee | "since eyes are the soul's windows" | Drew Morse |
| Nominee | Once | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | version 9: breakfast | Kristine Ong Muslim |
| Nominee | Bleach | Karen L. Newman |
| Nominee | Sulphur | Stuart Nunn |
| Nominee | "waiting for the comet" | Iulian Olaru |
| Nominee | extraterrestrial body | Kiwanda Paul |
| Nominee | "tired of incessant chatter" | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | Atlantis | Karen A. Romanko |
| Nominee | "starlit sky" | Teri Santitoro |
| Nominee | "zero-g face lifts" | Teri Santitoro |
| Nominee | Still Falling | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | The Reaper | Greg Schwartz |
| Nominee | "modest impact craters" | J. E. Stanley |
| Nominee | "identity theft" | Arlene Teck |
| Nominee | "where it's not" | Cor van den Heuvel |
| Nominee | If She Had Wings | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| Nominee | "snipped, clipped and cut" | Stephen M. Wilson |
| Nominee | "through the medium" | Jeffrey Woodward |
| Winner | Last Unicorn | Jane Yolen |
| Runner-up | Troll Under Bridge | Jane Yolen |
| Finalist | Dwarves | Sandra Lindow |
| Nominee | Shell | Cathy Ackerson |
| Nominee | "green storm" | Fay Aoyagi |
| Nominee | "her gown" | Kriti Bajaj |
| Nominee | "The problem robot" | G. O. Clark |
| Nominee | Morning, Europa | Malcolm Deeley |
| Nominee | "unfaithful husband" | Kevin Doran |
| Nominee | Cold Haven | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | "Holocaust Museum" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | "computer malfunction" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | "a crumpled ribbon" | Peg Duthie |
| Nominee | "allergy season" | Margarita Engle |
| Nominee | In the Wake of the Quiet One | Kendall Evans |
| Nominee | Siren Women of Tremulan III | Bryn Fortey |
| Nominee | Moonlit Fields | C. A. Gardner |
| Nominee | Hunter and Harvest | Berrien C. Henderson |
| Nominee | "back home from the future" | Tim Jamieson |
| Nominee | Astro Nautical | Dr. Steven B. Katz |
| Nominee | Thoughts on a Rosenquist Painting | W. B. Keckler |
| Nominee | "nuclear spring" | Patricia Kelly |
| Nominee | Pandora's Dilemma | Patricia Kelly |
| Nominee | "beyond Pluto" | Mariko Kitakubo |
| Nominee | "being human" | Deborah P. Kolodji |
| Nominee | Breathe | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
| Nominee | chickzilla | assu |
| Nominee | Where the Heart Isn't | John Edward Lawson |
| Nominee | Three Spider Sisters | John Edward Lawson |
| Nominee | "music of the spheres" | Darrell Lindsey |
| Nominee | "Time stumbles sideways" | Robin Mayhall |
| Nominee | Milky Way | Dan Mitrut |
| Nominee | Europan Spring | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | "just before dawn" | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | On the Road with Apollo | Karen A. Romanko |
| Nominee | The Mice | Meg Smith |
| Nominee | The Mafioso They Call Lucky | Steve Sneyd |
| Nominee | Time for Goodbye, I Find Myself Bent over Lens | Lynn Strongin |
| Nominee | Testimony Given on the Firing of the Weapon | Marcie Tentchoff |
| Nominee | The Space Between | Marcie Tentchoff |
| Winner | Knowledge Of | Ruth Berman |
| Runner-up | The Stepsister | Peg Duthie |
| Finalist | Prayer Causes Stars | Greg Beatty |
| Nominee | Constellations | Duane Ackerson |
| Nominee | Nightshift | Linda D. Addison |
| Nominee | "afraid of the dark" | Guy Belleranti |
| Nominee | The Shadow Maker | Ruth Berman |
| Nominee | Cold Moon | Jennifer Crow |
| Nominee | Jazz Girl | James S. Dorr |
| Nominee | "SFP 6,000,000" | John J. Dunphy |
| Nominee | Loki | Amal El-Mohtar |
| Nominee | Inside the Bubble Chamber | Robert Frazier |
| Nominee | Phoenix | Jo Gerrard |
| Nominee | "Perseus and Capricornus—" | Andrei Dorian Gheorghe |
| Nominee | Slow Spider Sunset | Todd Hanks |
| Nominee | Two Tanka for a Post-Apocalyptic Librarian | Samantha Henderson |
| Nominee | "my friend's ashes" | Tim Jamieson |
| Nominee | "weather taxes" | Tim Jamieson |
| Nominee | "in space" | Joanne Morcom |
| Nominee | "wedding ceremony" | Karen L. Newman |
| Nominee | Another Goddess in the Sky | Terrie Leigh Relf |
| Nominee | "night time stillness" | Oino Sakai |
| Nominee | "slowly making the bed" | Oino Sakai |
| Nominee | Muertos Moon | Ann K. Schwader |
| Nominee | Astrophysical Graffitti | Daniel C. Smith |
| Nominee | What I Learned Playing Marathon Solitare on My PC | W. Gregory Stewart |
| Nominee | "back to work" | John Stevenson (poet) |
| Nominee | The Necromancer Considers the Site for Her Next Boneyard | Marcie Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Water Sprite's Lament | Marcie Tentchoff |
| Nominee | Listen to the Wind | Stephen M. Wilson |