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The Dwarf Stars Award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association is awarded every year for the best speculative poem under 11 lines in length, or the equivalent for prose poetry, first published in the previous year. This award was established at the urging of Deborah P Kolodji because extremely short poems were at a competitive disadvantage with longer works for the existing speculative poetry awards.

This is how it works. Any members of The SFPA can submit proposed nominees to the editor of the Dwarf Stars Anthology. From this list, and from poems the editor finds her- or himself, the editor selects those that will be published in the anthology. I've never won the award, but I keep hoping! This year, I will have several poems nominated. Regardless of the outcome, the book is always a good read. The SFPA is at sfpoetry.com.