The 2018 Rhysling Awards
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
93 members voted
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2018 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2017
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| Short Poems (87 poems) |
| “Advice to a Six-Year-Old” • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 40.2 |
| “After Midnight” • David Clink • Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty eds. Spider Robinson & James Alan Gardner (Edge, 2017) |
| “The Alchemy of Arsenic” • Neile Graham • Liminality 13 |
| “All-Purpose Spell for Banishment” • Lesley Wheeler • Salamander 45 |
| “An Announcement” • Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman • Uncanny 19 |
| “Apologies from the Moon” • Lynne Sargent • Wild Musette: The Sin Eater |
| “Astro-Archaeologist’s Log” • Vince Gotera • The Poet’s Haven Digest: Strange Land |
| “The Astronaut Nightmare” • Michael H. Hanson • When the Night Owl Screams (MoonDream Press, 2017) |
| “Astronomers” • Ace G. Pilkington • The Horror Zine, November |
| “Baalberith” • Robert Beveridge • Priestess & Hierophant 2 |
| “Baba Yaga: Her Almost Origin Story” • Minadora Macheret • Bramble & Thorn, ed. Nicci Mechler (Porkbelly Press) |
| “Beware” • Juleigh Howard-Hobson • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 22/9/17 |
| “Birth, Place” • Brandon O’Brien • Uncanny 18 |
| “Black Star” • Adam Bolivar • The Lay of Old Hex (Hippocampus Press) |
| “Circe’s Guests” • Amelia Gorman • Liminality 12 |
| “Cosmovore Searches the Animal Shelter” • Kristi Carter • Cosmovore (Aqueduct Press) |
| “Dark Solstice Cold and Deathly” • Richard L. Tierney • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “The Dead Boy Teaches Me About Godzilla” • Lana Hechtman Ayers • Escape into Life |
| “Dead Bride Philosophy” • Sara Tantlinger • Space & Time 128 |
| “The Dead Languages of the Wind” • David Clink • Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty eds. Spider Robinson & James Alan Gardner (Edge, 2017) |
| “Dear Shotgun City” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Eye to the Telescope 25 |
| “The Devil in Boston” • A. J. Odasso • Barking Sycamores 12 |
| “early years of transdimensional travel” • John Reinhart • New Myths 38 |
| “Egress” • Marge Simon • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “The Empty House” • A. J. Locke • Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) |
| “End-Times Tables” • Margarita Tenser • Star*Line 40.1 |
| “Endeavour” • G. O. Clark • Asimov’s SF, May/June |
| “Enthusiasts of Ruin” • Margaret Wack • Liminality 14 |
| “first date” • David F. Shultz • The Literary Hatchet 18 |
| “Flowers for Asimov” • William Shaw • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Giger’s Children” • Saba Syed Razvi • Machine Dreams 1 |
| “Goodnight” • David F. Shultz • Polar Borealis Magazine 4 |
| “Gramarye” • F. J. Bergmann • Polu Texni 12/26/17 |
| “Grand Guignol” • G. O. Clark • Longshot Island 12/19/17 |
| “Guttersnipe” • WC Roberts • Chrome Baby 63 |
| “How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches” • Sara Cleto • Mythic Delirium, May |
| “Hubble’s Constant” • Marian D. Moore • Asimov’s SF, January/February |
| “In the Business of Things That Don't Earn You Much” • Ziad Gadou • Strange Horizons, Arab League community and diaspora special issue |
| “late to work” • Julie Bloss Kelsey • Jersey Devil Press 91 |
| “The Lovers and the Labyrinth” • Sara Cleto • Faerie Magazine 41 |
| “Lycium Barbarum” • PS Cottier • Umbel & Panicle 5 |
| “March Madness” • Francis W. Alexander • Night to Dawn, April |
| “Medusa in Her Mirror” • Hillary Lyon • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| “Messiaen Among The Dinosaurs” • Tim Jones • takahē 89 |
| “Midwest Wonder Expo” • Amelia Gorman • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “The Mushroom Siren” K. A. Opperman • The Audient Void 4 |
| “The Mutant Rat” • K. V. Volney • krystalvolneyfanclub.blogspot.com |
| “My Little Green Secret” • Clay F. Johnson • Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase 4 |
| “My Response to Your Mayday Call” • David Clink & Herb Kauderer • Dreams and Nightmares 105 |
| “A Net to Snare a Unicorn” • Beth Cato • Mythic Delirium, January |
| “O Terrible Bird” • Sandra Kasturi • Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books) |
| “One More Attempt at Disaster Preparedness” • Jeannine Hall Gailey • American Poetry Journal |
| “Other People’s Tragedies” • Jennifer Crow • Mythic Delirium, August |
| “Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Liminality 11 |
| “Pleiades”• Jenny Blackford • The Loyalty of Chickens, Pitt Street Poetry |
| “Poisoned Apple” • Ann Thornfield-Long • Abyss & Apex, March |
| “Quantum Socks” • R. Gene Turchin • Eye to the Telescope 25 |
| “Radiant Things” • A. J. Odasso • Noble Dissent (ed. Rebecca Jane Bilkau, Beautiful Dragons Press) |
| “reanimated …” • Susan Burch • Scifaikuest, print |
| “Save Our Souls” • Karen Bovenmyer • Silver Blade 33 |
| “scent of blackened” • Greer Woodward • Star*Line 40.1 |
| “The Scratch inside Your Chest” • Layla Al-Bedawi • Strange Horizons 10/30/17 |
| “Scorpio” • Jo Walton • Patreon 11/23/17 |
| “Sea Legs” • Milo Gallagher • NonBinary Review 14 |
| “Secret Identities” • Davian Aw • Strange Horizons 2/6/17 |
| “Shadowfolk” • John Philip Johnson • Devilfish Review 19 |
| “She traveled back in time” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Outposts of Beyond, April |
| “Small Town Witches” • Kate Pentecost • Liminality 13 |
| “Some Things Never Change” • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 40.1 |
| “Song of a Changeling” • Adele Gardner • Balticon 51: The BSFAN, May |
| “Starlight” • Christina Sng • Space & Time 129 |
| “A Streetcar Named Happily Ever After” • B. J. Lee • Illumen, Autumn |
| “Supper with the Sphinx” • Carolyn Clink • Canadian Ginger (ed. Kim Clark & Dawn Marie Kresan, Oolichan Books, 2017) |
| “Surreal Bucket List #3” • Bruce Boston • Mithila Review 9 |
| “Sycorax’s Daughters Unveiled” • Linda Addison • Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) |
| “Syncing Minefields” • Karen Bovenmyer • Strange Horizons 2/20/17 |
| “Table of Contents from a Lost Book of Divination” • Dean Kostos • Star*Line 40.2 |
| “The Talking River” • John W. Sexton • Star*Line 40.2 |
| “Titan’s Magic Islands: Transient Features in the Hydrocarbon Seas” • Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August |
| “Vaginoplasticine” • Alison Rumfitt • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Vampirette” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Villain L” • Azriel Johnson • The Poet's Haven Digest: The Distance Between Insanity and Genius |
| “Vul Ravin” • D. L. Myers • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “Wayfaring King” • Beth Cato • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “When the Aliens Come to Tea” • Mary A. Turzillo • The Poet’s Haven Digest: Strange Land |
| “The Witch Woman” • Alexandra Seidel • Polu Texni 7/17/17 |
| “Yellow Spiders” • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality Magazine 4/28/17 |
| Long Poems (63 poems) |
| “Alternate Genders” • Mary Soon Lee • Mithila Review 9 |
| “The Android Who Gave Herself Away” Rohinton Daruwala • Eye to the Telescope 23 |
| “Apocalyptic Mass” • Alessandro Manzetti • No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “Atop the Crystal Moon” • Ashley Dioses • Diary of a Sorceress (Hippocampus Press) |
| “The Ballad of the de la Poers” • Adam Bolivar • Spectral Realms 7 |
| “Castaway” • John C. Mannone • Anak Sastra 28 |
| “Chrysopoeia & Isagoge” • Saba Syed Razvi • Beside the Muezzin's Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil (Finishing Line Press) |
| “A Cleaner Times Square” • Vanessa Kittle• Chrome Baby 61 |
| “Commentary Track” • Troy Jollimore • The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5 ed. Daniel Lawless (Plume Editions) |
| “Dab3 (Mount Hermon, 1998)” • Sara Saab • Strange Horizons 10/30/17 |
| “Daunted” • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams and Nightmares 105 |
| “Don't Forget the Tinderbox” • Jennifer Lynn Krohn • NonBinary Review 14 |
| “A Dream of Milk and Blood” • Alessandro Manzetti • No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “The Drum Star (Orion’s Ghost)” • Ryu Ando • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive Special |
| “The First Battle of the Puffer War” • Herb Kauderer • Outposts of Beyond, July |
| “For Preserves” • Cassandra Rose Clarke • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Four Moons” • John Philip Johnson • Mithila Review 9 |
| “Frida’s Monsters” • Alessandro Manzetti • No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “Ghosts of 1816” • Clay F. Johnson • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “The Hawthorn Muses” • Shannon Connor Winward • Timeless Tales 8 |
| “Hot” • Cislyn Smith • Strange Horizons 5/29/17 |
| “The Huntsman” • Lora Gray • Liminal Stories 4 |
| “In the Labyrinth” • Allan Rozinski • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice |
| “Instructions for Astronauts” • Michael Janairo • Mithila Review 8 |
| “Just Rosie” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Eye to the Telescope 23 |
| “Kindred Spirit” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 106 |
| “Let Me In” • Tonya Liburd • Alligators in the Sewers (Unnerving Magazine chapbook) |
| “Little Red” • Christina Sng • Polu Texni 9/4/17 |
| “Little Red: Morning” • Sally Rosen Kindred • Bramble & Thorn, ed. Nicci Mechler (Porkbelly Press) |
| “Looking Back to the Stars” • Vince Gotera • Altered Reality Magazine, October |
| “Lotus Moon” • Mary Soon Lee • Mythic Delirium 4.2 |
| “Maintenance Call” • Ken Poyner • Abyss & Apex 61 |
| “Masques and Mayhem” • Jennifer Crow • Mythic Delirium, September |
| “Moonlight in the Playground” • Christina Sng • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “The Mushroom Hunters” • Neil Gaiman • Brainpickings 4/26/17 |
| “O Ippos” • Mari Ness • Through Immortal Shadows Singing (Papaveria Press) |
| “On a Dreamland's Moon” • Ashley Dioses • Black Wings VI (PS Publishing) |
| “Opposition Night” • Christina M. Rau • Liberating the Astronauts (Aqueduct Press) |
| “The Patron Saint of Lost Causes” • Chris Castro-Rappl • Abyss & Apex, September |
| “Pre-Raphaelite Girls” • Delbert R. Gardner & Adele Gardner • Buckshot Magazine, 7/12/17 |
| “Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization” • Cassandra Khaw • Uncanny 19 |
| “Quietly, on the way to Mars” • Bronwyn Lovell • Cordite Poetry Review, September |
| “The Rain that Falls in the Mutant Rain Forest” • Bruce Boston • Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “Rapunzel and Medusa” • Colleen Anderson • Polu Texni 9/25/17 |
| “The Raven’s Hallowe’en” • Shannon Connor Winward • Wild Musette, 10/26/18 |
| “Romance of Possible Contrasts” • Alison Rumfitt • Strange Horizons, 12/18/17 |
| “The Seal Wife” • Signe Pike• Faerie Magazine 38 |
| “The Secret Life of a Toaster” • Mary Soon Lee • Polu Texni 10/2/17 |
| “Shards of a Fractured Soul” • Deborah L. Davitt • The Poet’s Haven Digest: Strange Land |
| “She Dreams of Tigers, or Remembers” • Jennifer D’Aubergny • The Poet's Haven Digest: The Distance Between Insanity and Genius |
| “The Simple Poem” • Abhishek Sengupta • Liminality 12 |
| “Signs That the World Might Be Ending” • E. E. King • NonBinary Review 13 |
| “Size 15W Should Do It (after George Orwell” • Tyree Campbell • A Danger to Self and Others (Alban Lake) |
| “Sons of Fire and Clay” • Jesse Parent• The Poet's Haven Digest: The Distance Between Insanity and Genius |
| “Starskin, Sealskin” • Shveta Thakrar & Sara Cleto • Uncanny 17 |
| “The Story of Shen Dho, A Pirate in the Red Flag Fleet, Who Serves Ching Shih Devotedly for Many Years” • Kendall Evans • Illumen, Autumn |
| “tha may ask thee sen/At the Finish” • Paul Brookes • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| “The Trajectory of Culture” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • Polu Texni 5/15/17 |
| “The Tree Builder” • Christina Loraine • Eye to the Telescope 25 |
| “Waking” • Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman • Liminality 10 |
| “What Neighbors Do” • Herb Kauderer • 49th Parallels, ed. Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press) |
| “Whispers & Lies” • Deborah Elizabeth Whaley • Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) |
| “The Woman in the Feathered Mask” • K. A. Opperman • Skelos 3 |
| Nominations per publication (74 publications): | ||
| 1 | 49th Parallels (Bundoran Press) | |
| 3 | Abyss & Apex | |
| 1 | Alligators in the Sewers (Unnerving Magazine chapbook) | |
| 2 | Altered Reality Magazine | |
| 1 | American Poetry Journal | |
| 1 | Anak Sastra | |
| 3 | |
Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 1 | The Audient Void | |
| 1 | Balticon 51: The BSFAN | |
| 1 | Barking Sycamores | |
| 1 | Beside the Muezzin's Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil (Finishing Line Press) | |
| 1 | Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books) | |
| 1 | Black Wings VI (PS Publishing) | |
| 1 | Brainpickings | |
| 2 | Bramble & Thorn (Porkbelly Press) | |
| 1 | Buckshot Magazine | |
| 1 | Canadian Ginger (Oolichan Press) | |
| 2 | Chrome Baby | |
| 2 | Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty eds. Spider Robinson & James Alan Gardner (Edge) | |
| 1 | Cordite Poetry Review | |
| 1 | Cosmovore (Aqueduct Press) | |
| 1 | A Danger to Self and Others (Alban Lake) | |
| 1 | Devilfish Review | |
| 1 | Diary of a Sorceress (Hippocampus Press) | |
| 3 | Dreams and Nightmares | |
| 1 | Escape into Life | |
| 3 | Eternal Haunted Summer | |
| 5 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 2 | Faerie Magazine | |
| 1 | The Horror Zine | |
| 1 | Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase | |
| 2 | Illumen | |
| 1 | Jersey Devil Press | |
| 1 | krystalvolneyfanclub.blogspot.com | |
| 1 | The Lay of Old Hex (Hippocampus Press) | |
| 1 | Liberating the Astronauts (Aqueduct Press) | |
| 1 | Liminal Stories | |
| 7 | Liminality | |
| 1 | The Literary Hatchet | |
| 1 | Longshot Island | |
| 1 | The Loyalty of Chickens (Pitt Street Poetry) | |
| 1 | Machine Dreams | |
| 4 | Mithila Review | |
| 5 | Mythic Delirium | |
| 1 | New Myths | |
| 1 | Night to Dawn | |
| 3 | No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) | |
| 3 | NonBinary Review | |
| 1 | Noble Dissent (Beautiful Dragons Press) | |
| 2 | Outposts of Beyond | |
| 1 | Patreon | |
| 1 | The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5 ed. Daniel Lawless (Plume Editions) | |
| 6 | The Poet’s Haven Digest | |
| 1 | Polar Borealis Magazine | |
| 6 | Polu Texni | |
| 1 | Priestess & Hierophant | |
| 1 | Salamander | |
| 1 | Scifaikuest | |
| 1 | Silver Blade | |
| 1 | Skelos | |
| 1 | Songs of Eretz Poetry Review | |
| 2 | Space & Time | |
| 5 | Spectral Realms | |
| 12 | Star*Line | |
| 7 | Strange Horizons | |
| 3 | Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) | |
| 1 | takahē | |
| 1 | Through Immortal Shadows Singing (Papaveria Press) | |
| 1 | Timeless Tales | |
| 1 | Umbel & Panicle | |
| 4 | Uncanny | |
| 1 | Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest (Crystal Lake Publications) | |
| 1 | When the Night Owl Screams (MoonDream Press) | |
| 2 | Wild Musette | |
