Rhysling Award

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The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. Unlike most literary awards, which are named for the creator of the award, the subject of the award, or a noted member of the field, the Rhyslings are named for a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story The Green Hills of Earth. The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines.

The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. The nominated works are then compiled into an anthology called The Rhysling Anthology, and members of the Association then vote on the final winners.

[edit] Best Long Poem winners and finalists

[edit] 1978

  • Winner: Gene Wolfe "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps"

[edit] 1979

[edit] 1980

[edit] 1981

[edit] 1982

[edit] 1983

  • Winner: Adam Cornford "Your Time and You: [[A Neoprole's Dating Guide"

[edit] 1984

[edit] 1985

  • Winner: Siv Cedering "A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)"

[edit] 1986

[edit] 1987

[edit] 1988

[edit] 1989

[edit] 1990

  • Winner: Patrick McKinnon "dear spacemen"

[edit] 1991

  • Winner: David Memmott "The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire"

[edit] 1992

[edit] 1993

  • Winner: William J. Daciuk "To Be from Earth"

[edit] 1994

[edit] 1995

  • Winner: David Lunde "Pilot, Pilot"

[edit] 1996

[edit] 1997

  • Winner: Terry A. Garey "Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes"

[edit] 1998

  • Winner: Laurel Winter "why goldfish shouldn't use power tools"

[edit] 1999

[edit] 2000

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2002

  • Winner: Lawrence Schimel "How to Make a Human"

[edit] 2003

  • Winner: (tie): Charles Saplak and Mike Allen "Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy" ; Sonya Taaffe "Matlacihuatl's Gift"

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] Best Short Poem winners and finalists

[edit] 1978

[edit] 1979

  • Winner:(tie): Duane Ackerson "Fatalities" ; Steve Eng "Storybooks and Treasure Maps"

[edit] 1980

  • Winner: (tie): Robert Frazier "Encased in the Amber of Eternity" ; Peter Payack "The Migration of Darkness"

[edit] 1981

  • Winner: Ken Duffin "Meeting Place"

[edit] 1982

  • Winner: Raymond DiZazzo "On the Speed of Sight"

[edit] 1983

[edit] 1984

  • Winner: Helen Ehrlich "Two Sonnets"

[edit] 1985

  • Winner: Bruce Boston "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets"

[edit] 1986

  • Winner: Short Poem: Susan Palwick "The Neighbor's Wife"

[edit] 1987

  • Winner: (tie): Jonathan V. Post "Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope" ; John Calvin Rezmerski "A Dream of Heredity"

[edit] 1988

[edit] 1989

[edit] 1990

  • Winner: G. Sutton Breiding "Epitaph for Dreams"

[edit] 1991

  • Winner: Joe Haldeman "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh"

[edit] 1992

  • Winner: David Lunde "Song of the Martian Cricket"

[edit] 1993

[edit] 1994

[edit] 1995

  • Winner: Dan Raphael "Skin of Glass"

[edit] 1996

  • Winner: Bruce Boston "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation"

[edit] 1997

[edit] 1998

  • Winner: John Grey "Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother"

[edit] 1999

  • Winner: Laurel Winter "egg horror poem"

[edit] 2000

  • Winner: Rebecca Marjesdatter "Grimoire"

[edit] 2001

  • Winner: Bruce Boston "My Wife Returns as She Would Have It"

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

  • Winner: Ruth Berman "Potherb Gardening"

[edit] 2004

  • Winner: Roger Dutcher "Just Distance"

[edit] 2005

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