Author Jay Sturner

" Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana " has been nominated for a 2023  Rhysling Award in the short poem category.

 Thank you to Bruce Swanson for the honor.

" Intimate Universes " has been nominated for a 2015 Rhysling Award in the short poem category.

Thank you to Nastia Lenkova, editor of the webzine Work to a Calm , for nominating my poem " Poet " for this year's Best of the Net . The poem appeared in the October 2013 issue of the webzine.

Jeani Rector of The Horror Zine  has chosen me as this month's Editor's Pick Writer. My short story "The Hunchback's Captive" is featured on the website and can be read by clicking here .

" Faerystruck Down " has been nominated for the annual Rhysling Award in the category of "Best Short Poem of 2013."

One of my old love poems, "The Existence of You," has been chosen as Poem of the Month at Long Story Short .

by Evelyn Williams. Photo Credit: Pembroke College Oxford JCR Art Collection This month I am the featured artist at A Place for Tulsi , an online initiative to "acknowledge and create an awareness of the cultural diversity in the community of poets." Poems include "A Lament for Sylvia," "Little Girl," "A Little of the Mystery Come," and "Before the Storm Wet the Earth."

" Out of the Ad Space" has been voted by readers as the best poem of the September 2012 issue of Aoife's Kiss . It will be reprinted in the "best of" anthology Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 11 in 2013.

"Penumbra" has been chosen by the staff at Bewildering Stories as Editors' Choice for flash fiction (issues 472-483).

The Editors at Chantarelle's Notebook have asked me to be Featured Poet for Issue #26.

The editors at Thick With Conviction have nominated my poem " The Props at My Funeral " for Best of the Net 2011 .  Thank you to Arielle Lancaster-LaBrea, Kayla Middlebrook, and Kristina Blanton for the nomination.