Awards / Nominations
a work that first appeared in 2024 for your 2025 award consideration:
Trip Through the Robot
PUSHCART PRIZE nomination
“My Response to Your Mayday Call,” a collaborative poem with Herb Kauderer, is nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
2017 November “My Response to Your Mayday Call” by David Clink & Herb Kauderer was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poem in a small press publication.
(from https://www.herbkauderer.com/accolades.html)
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Award /
Nomination History
2007 Asimov’s Readers’ Awards –
Poetry Category
Second Place:
Copyright Notice 2525 – DOC | PDF
2008 Aurora Award –
Best Short Form Work in English
Finalist:
Falling – DOC | PDF
2013 Aurora Award –
Best Poem/Song
First Place:
A Sea Monster Tells His Story – DOC | PDF
2014 Aurora Award –
Best Poem/Song
Second Place:
A City of Buried Rivers – DOC | PDF
2014 Dwarf Stars Competition –
Best Short Poem
Third Place:
A Conversation Between a Time Traveler and His Apprentice – DOC | PDF
2015 Aurora Award –
Best Poem/Song
Tied for Second Place:
The Perfect Library – DOC | PDF
2015 Aurora Award –
Best Poem/Song
Finalist:
The Machine – DOC – PDF
Chapbook Category
Third Place:
If the World Were to Stop Spinning
Long Poem
Third Place:
The Perfect Library – DOC – PDF
2016 Aurora Award –
Best Poem/Song
Finalist:
Elegy for WLC – DOC – PDF
2016 Aurora Award –
Best Poem/Song
Finalist:
Portrait – DOC – PDF
2016 Rhysling Award –
Short Poem
Finalist:
Elegy for WLC – DOC – PDF
2016 Rhysling Award –
Short Poem
Finalist:
Portrait – DOC – PDF
An Editor’s Choice
Issue 39.4; Fall 2016:
Witching – HTML
Star*Line –
An Editor’s Choice
Issue 39.1; Winter 2016:
The Advent of Machines – HTML
UPDATE
There was a year where I did not make the final ballot for the Aurora Award.
There was a year where they did not have the poetry category for the Aurora Award (2016?)
There was a year where I made the ballot with three poems, and I removed two voluntarily.
Steampunk Christmas – finalist, 2020 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English [finished 5th]
After Midnight – finalist, 2018 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English
[finished T-6th]Birdhouse – shortlisted, 2018 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – I requested that only one of my works be on the final ballot.
The Valet of the Shadow of Death – shortlisted, 2018 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – I requested that only one of my works be on the final ballot.
Elegy for WLC – finalist, 2016 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English [finished 5th]
Portrait – finalist, 2016 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English
[finished 4th]The Perfect Library – finalist, 2015 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English
[finished T-2?____]The Machine – finalist, 2015 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English
[finished ?____]The Perfect Library – finalist, 2015 Rhysling Award – Long Poem [finished 3rd]
A City of Buried Rivers – finalist, 2014 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English [finished 2nd]
A City of Buried Rivers – finalist, 2014 Rhysling Award – Short Poem
A sea monster tells his story – winner, 2013 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English
A sea monster tells his story – finalist, 2013 Rhysling Award – Short Poem
Nothing but sky overhead – finalist, 2012 Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song – English [finished ?____]
The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out The Last Candle – finalist, 2010 Rhysling Award – Short Poem
Falling – finalist, 2008 Aurora Award – Best Short Form Work in English
Falling – finalist, 2008 Rhysling Award – Short Poem
Shipwreck – finalist, 2002 Rhysling Award – Short Poem
First Contact – finalist, 2001 Rhysling Award – Short Poem
UPDATE
LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS BIO online:
About Me
David Livingstone Clink (also published as David Clink) is a poet, poker player, and punster. He was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, on June 20th, 1962. He has lived in Alberta, West Hartford (Connecticut), Toronto (Ontario), and he currently resides in Thornhill (Ontario). He has a degree in English from York University. He is the author of three books of poetry, and five poetry chapbooks. He has edited one anthology, and seven poetry chapbooks. He has been involved in running reading series in Toronto from 2002 – 2012, including the Art Bar Poetry Series and the Rowers Pub Reading Series. He is the webmaster of poetrymachine.com, a resource for poets. David and Myna Wallin are the co-publishers of believe your own press, which published 20 poetry chapbooks in 5 years (2002-2007), including WCDR Chapbook contest winner Resident Alien by Teresa Dunat Banks. David co-runs (along with Sandra Kasturi) a day long poetry workshop called “A Fistful of Poems.” David is the creator, host and organizer of the annual Dead Poets Society Night readings at the Art Bar Poetry Series, its tenth anniversary was held in December 2012.
David’s poetry has appeared in over fifty journals, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact (4 times), Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (twice), Cicada, Existere (4 times), Grain Magazine, On Spec (twice), The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review (4 times), The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada (5 times), The Nashwaak Review (twice), The Prairie Journal, and in over fifteen anthologies.
To find out more about David, go to his Web site, www.poetrymachine.com.
Awards
Finalist – Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song, 2014. “A City of Buried Rivers”
Finalist – Rhysling Award – Short Poem Category, 2014. “A City of Buried Rivers”
Winner – Aurora Award – Best Poem/Song, 2013. “A sea monster tells his story”
Finalist – Rhysling Award – Short Poem Category, 2013. “A sea monster tells his story”
Finalist – Rhysling Award – Short Poem Category, 2010. “The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out The Last Candle”
Finalist – Aurora Award – Best Short-Form Work in English, 2007. “Falling”
Finalist – Rhysling Award – Short Poem Category, 2008. “Falling”
Finalist – Asimov’s Readers’ Awards – Poetry Category, 2007. “Copyright Notice 2525” [2nd place]
Finalist – Rhysling Award – Short Poem Category, 2002. “Shipwreck”
Finalist – Rhysling Award – Short Poem Category, 2001. “First Contact”
Selected Publications
Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2012) ISBN: 978-1-55497-182-4
Monster (Tightrope Books, 2010) ISBN: 978-1-926639-18-5
Eating Fruit Out of Season (Tightrope Books, 2008) ISBN: 978-0-9783351-1-3
Selected Anthologies
Poet to poet: poems written to poets and the stories that inspired them (Guernica Editions Inc., 2012) ISBN-13: 978-1-55071-645-0
Imaginarium 2012: the best Canadian speculative writing (Chizine Publications + Tightrope Books, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-1-926851-67-9
Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012) ISBN: 978-1-894063-92-0
Books in Print
Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2012) ISBN: 978-1-55497-182-4
Monster (Tightrope Books, 2010) ISBN: 978-1-926639-18-5
Eating Fruit Out of Season (Tightrope Books, 2008) ISBN: 978-0-9783351-1-3
Edited Anthologies
A Verdant Green: A Florilegium of Poetry for Anna and William McCoy (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2010) ISBN: 978-1-55246-844-9
David Clink, 208 – 91 Townsgate Drive, Thornhill, Ontario, L4J 8E8
Phone: 647-298-9367
E-mail: davidlclink@gmail.com
Website: http://www.poetrymachine.com/
Twitter: @DavidClink13
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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-clink/63/118/8a5
Link: http://www.rowerpubreadingseries.com/
Link: http://tightropebooks.com/
Link: http://www.artbar.org/
Link: http://www.sfpoetry.com/
