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About the Rhysling Awards

In January 1978, Suzette Haden Elgin founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, along with its two visible cornerposts: the association's newsletter, Star*Line, and the Rhysling Awards.

The newsletter cuts straight to Elgin's purpose for founding this organization, since it acts as a forum and networking tool for poets with the same persuasion: fantastic poetry, from science fiction orientation to high fantasy works, from the macabre to straight science, and onward to associated mainstream poetry such as surrealism.

The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of the two categories: "Best Long Poem" (50+ lines) and "Best Short Poem" (0-49 lines). All nominated works must have been published during the calendar year for which the present awards are being given. The Rhysling Awards are put to a final vote by the membership of the SFPA using reprints of all the nominated works presented in this voting tool called The Rhysling Anthology. The anthology allows the membership to easily review and consider all nominated works without the necessity of obtaining the diverse number of publications in which the nominated works first appeared. The Rhysling Anthology is also made available to anyone with an interest in this unique compilation of verse from some of the finest poets working in the field of SF/F/Horror poetry.

The winning works are regularly reprinted in the Nebula Awards Anthology from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., and are considered in the SF/F/H/Spec. field to be the equivalent in poetry of the awards given for "prose" work--achievement awards given to poets by the writing peers of their own field of literature.

Printing and distribution of the Rhysling Anthology are paid for from a special fund, the Rhysling Endowment Fund. If you would like to contribute to this fund, please send a check, made out to the Science Fiction Poetry Ass'n and with a notation that it is for the Rhysling fund, to:

Samantha Henderson
SFPA Treasurer
PO Box 4846
Covina, CA 91723

or by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com. Credit card payments are accepted through PayPal.

Without the generous donations of many SFPA members, the Anthology could not be published.

The 2009 Rhysling Anthology

2009 Anthology Contents

(To view the contents of all the Rhysling Anthologies since 1978, see our archive.)

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Some copies of the 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Rhysling Anthologies are still available.

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