The 2024 Rhysling Awards
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Long Poem Category
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Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2024 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2023
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2024 Rhysling Chairs: David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Brian U. Garrison
David C. Kopaska-Merkel won the 2006 Rhysling award (long poem, written with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986). His poems have been published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and more than 200 other venues. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark poetry, was published in 2022. @DavidKMresists on CS. Blog:
https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/
Brian U. Garrison co-edited the 2022 Rhysling Anthology and currently serves as Managing Editor for Eye to the Telescope. His poetry has waited at a bus stop in Montpelier, Vermont, popped out of a vending machine in Boston, Massachusetts, traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (among other cities) aboard Asimov's Science Fiction, and orbited Mars aboard NASA's MAVEN mission. You may need a microscope, telescope, and/or crystal ball to read his second chapbook Micropoetry for Microplanets (forthcoming from Space Cowboy Books). Look for him in Portland, Oregon—particularly around book stores and thrift stores.
http://www.bugthewriter.com
2024 Rhysling Jurors
SFPA gives its sincere thanks to this year's Rhysling jurors!
101 members nominated.
Short Poems (50 finalists)
- Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity! • Emily Ruth Verona • Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II
- The Beauty of Monsters • Angela Liu • Small Wonders 1
- The Blight of Kezia • Patricia Gomes • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- The Day We All Died, A Little • Lisa Timpf • Radon 5
- Deadweight • Jack Cooper • Propel 7
- Dear Mars • Susan L. Lin • The Sprawl Mag 1.2
- Dispatches from the Dragon's Den • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 46.2
- Dr. Jekyll • West Ambrose • Thin Veil Press December
- First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare • Emily Jiang • Uncanny 53
- Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 31
- Gods of the Garden • Steven Withrow • Spectral Realms 19
- The Goth Girls' Gun Gang • Marisca Pichette • The Dread Machine 3.2
- Guiding Star • Tim Jones • Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)
- Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke • Morgan L. Ventura • Banshee 15
- hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice • Ennis Rook Bashe • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice
- Hi! I am your Cortical Update! • Mahaila Smith • Star*Line 46.3
- How to Make the Animal Perfect? • Linda D. Addison • Weird Tales 100
- I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon • Jennessa Hester • HAD October
- Invasive • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Polar Starlight 9
- kan-da-ka • Nadaa Hussein • Apparition Lit 23
- Language as a Form of Breath • Angel Leal • Apparition Lit October
- The Lantern of September • Scott Couturier • Spectral Realms 19
- Let Us Dream • Myna Chang • Small Wonders 3
- The Magician's Foundling • Angel Leal • Heartlines Spec 2
- The Man with the Stone Flute • Joshua St. Claire • Abyss & Apex 87
- Mass-Market Affair • Casey Aimer • Star*Line 46.4
- Mom's Surprise • Francis W. Alexander • Tales from the Moonlit Path June
- A Murder of Crows • Alicia Hilton • Ice Queen 11
- No One Now Remembers • Geoffrey Landis • Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.
- orion conquers the sky • Maria Zoccula • On Spec 33.2
- Pines in the Wind • Karen Greenbaum-Maya • The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)
- The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon • T.D. Walker • Radon Journal 5
- A Prayer for the Surviving • Marisca Pichette • Haven Speculative 9
- Pre-Nuptial • F. J. Bergmann • The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)
- The Problem of Pain • Anna Cates • Eye on the Telescope 49
- The Return of the Sauceress • F. J. Bergmann • The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
- Sea Change • David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader • Scifaikuest May
- Seed of Power • Linda D. Addison • The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)
- Sleeping Beauties • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- Solar Punks • J. D. Harlock • The Dread Machine 3.1
- Song of the Last Hour • Samuel A. Betiku • The Deadlands 22
- Sphinx • Mary Soon Lee • Asimov's September/October
- Storm Watchers (a drabbun) • Terrie Leigh Relf • Space & Time
- Sunflower Astronaut • Charlie Espinosa • Strange Horizons July
- Three Hearts as One • G. O. Clark • Asimov's May/June
- Troy • Carolyn Clink • Polar Starlight 12
- Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary • John Grey • Medusa's Kitchen September
- Under World • Jacqueline West • Carmina Magazine September
- Walking in the Starry World • John Philip Johnson • Orion's Belt May
- Whispers in Ink • Angela Yuriko Smith • Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Long Poems (25 finalists)
- Archivist of a Lost World • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4
- As the witch burns • Marisca Pichette • Fantasy 87
- Brigid the Poet • Adele Gardner • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
- Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure) • Armoni “Monihymn” Boone • Fiyah 26
- Cradling Fish • Laura Ma • Strange Horizons May
- Dream Visions • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Eccentric Orbits 4
- Eight Dwarfs on Planet X • Avra Margariti • Radon Journal 3
- The Giants of Kandahar • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 88
- How to Haunt a Northern Lake • Lora Gray • Uncanny 55
- Imposter Syndrome • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 124
- The Incessant Rain • Rhiannon Owens • Evermore 3
- Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons November
- Little Brown Changeling • Lauren Scharhag • Aphelion 283
- A Mere Million Miles from Earth • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality April
- Pilot • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
- Protocol • Jamie Simpher • Small Wonders 5
- St. Sebastian Goes To Confession • West Ambrose • Mouthfeel 1
- Sleep Dragon • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Slow Dreaming • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Value Measure • Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish • Dreams and Nightmares 125
- A Weather of My Own Making • Nnadi Samuel • Silver Blade 56
- Welcoming the New Girl • Beth Cato • Penumbric October
- What You Find at the Center • Elizabeth R McClellan • Haven Spec Magazine 12
- The Witch Makes Her To-Do List • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 50
- The Year It Changed • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 46.4
