The 2014 Rhysling Awards
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
57 members voted
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2014 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2013
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Editor and Rhysling Chair: Elizabeth R. McClellan
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Short Poems first published in 2013 (47 nominations)
“The Captain Speaks” by Leslie J. Anderson • Star*Line 36.1
“Nephology” by F.J. Bergmann • James Gunn's Ad Astra 2
“What She Dreams Of” by F.J. Bergmann • ChiZine March 2013
“How Many” by Ruth Berman • Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2013
“Liar, Liar” by Robert Borski • Dreams & Nightmares 94
“Music of the Stars” by Bruce Boston • 2013 Balticon Program Book
“View from the Oort Cloud” by Shelly Bryant • Illumen Spring 2013
“Singing the Plains” by Rachael Bundock • Goblin Fruit Summer 2013
“The Narrow Hours” by Gwendolyn Clare • Bull Spec 8
“Climbing Up the Sky” by G.O. Clark • Tales of the Talisman 9.1
(untitled) by Carolyn Clink • GUSTS: Contemporary Tanka 18, Fall/Winter 2013
“A City of Buried Rivers” by David Clink • Literary Review of Canada 21.9
“Why I Sold My Soul to the Storyteller” by Jennifer Crow • The First Bite of the Apple (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013)
“Triptych” by Jane Crowley • Strange Horizons 9/9/13
“The Specialist” by James S. Dorr • Disturbed Digest June 2013
“The Bed I Haven't Made Yet” by Peg Duthie • Star*Line 36.2
“Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar • Apex Magazine December 2013
‘imagining’ by Joshua Gage • Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse (The Poet's Haven, 2013)
“Wheels” by Adele Gardner • Mythic Delirium 28
“A Virtuous Woman” by Nancy Hightower • Prick of the Spindle 7.3, September 2013
“After the Moon” by Russell Jones • Spaces of Their Own (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013)
“Sleeping Beauty Makes Dinner” by Sally Rosen Kindred • Goblin Fruit Winter 2013
“The Bagel Shop Across the Street” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • Not One of Us 50
“Pinocchio in the Toothpick Factory” by Andrew Kozma • Star*Line 36.2
“Rivers” by Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2013
“The Waiting” by Dennis M. Lane • The Ghazal Page November 2013
“Don’t Call Me a Fairy” by B.J. Lee • Spellbound Spring 2013
“Topic of Cancer” by Sandra Lindow • 2014 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar
“Leaving Papa” by Darrell Lindsey • Kaleidotrope Summer 2013
“Bluebeard's Wife” by Helen Marshall • The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press, 2013)
“Irène Joliot-Curie” by Mary McMyne • Painted Bride Quarterly 86, February 2013
“Ivy” by Adrienne J. Odasso • Not One of Us 50
“Rigel” by Adrienne J. Odasso • Dark Mountain Book 4
“While on the vacation shuttle” by Terrie Leigh Relf • Star*Line 36.4
“Rhythm of Hoof and Cry” by S. Brackett Robertson • Mythic Delirium 0.1
“The Bone Cutter's Lament” by James Frederick William Rowe • Songs of Eretz 1.2
“Apache Chief” by Sofia Samatar • Flying Higher, eds. Shira Lipkin & Michael D. Thomas
“Orbit” by Diane Severson • The Mystic Nebula, July 12, 2013
“Alien Interrogation” by Marge Simon • Silver Blade 17
“From the Soil” by Anna Sykora • Chrome Baby, April 18, 2013
“Faerystruck Down” by Jason Sturner • Tales of the Talisman Volume IX, Issue 1
“Blackmare” by Natalia Theodoridou • Ideomancer, December 1, 2013
“Indefensible Disclosures” by William John Watkins • Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2013
“My Translation Wouldn't Be the Same as Yours” by Lesley Wheeler • Avatar Review 15
“Even Cowgirls Spread the News” by Laurel Winter • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Fall 2013
“Black Bird” by Stephanie M. Wytovich • Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013)
“Re-Obsolete” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • Star*Line 36.4
Long Poems first published in 2012 (31 nominations)
“Hungry Constellations” by Mike Allen • Goblin Fruit Fall 2013
“Ponies and Rocketships” by Leslie Anderson • Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2013
“Songs at a Crossroad” by Megan Arkenberg • Ideomancer 12.1
“Hungry as Living Sorrow” by Jenny Blackford • 2013 SFPA Poetry Contest
“The Last Dream” by Leigh Blackmore • Weird Fiction Review 4
“Living on the Leys” by Bruce Boston • Bête Noire 12
“Riveted” by Lisa Bradley • Flying Higher, eds. Shira Lipkin & Michael D. Thomas
“Interim Problem Report 119V-0080” by Jennifer Clark • Paper Crow 3.1
“Into the Deep” by Kendall Evans • James Gunn's Ad Astra 2
“The Girl Who Tipped Through Time” by Robert Frazier • 2013 SFPA Poetry Contest
“Your Clone & You” by Robert Frazier • Dreams & Nightmares 94
“Diana's Justice” by Adele Gardner • Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 16
“The Siren of Mayberry Crescent” by Ada Hoffmann • Mythic Delirium 29
“Gingerbread House: The Apron’s Lot” by Sally Rosen Kindred • Jabberwock Review Winter 2013
“Backwater” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Magazine of Speculative Poetry Fall 2013
“Across the Dark, the Pioneers” by Geoffrey A. Landis • Starship Century (Microwave Sciences, 2013)
“Interregnum” by Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 36.4
“I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz” by Rose Lemberg • Goblin Fruit Summer 2013
“Doppelgänger” by John Light • AWEN 82, November 2013
“Timeline Tapestry” by Sandra Lindow • Wisconsin Harvest II
“The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid” by Helen Marshall • Postscripts to Darkness 4
“Special Delivery from the Unnamed Quadrant” by Jason Matthews • Star*Line 36.2
“Heaven and Earth” by Adrienne J. Odasso • Niteblade December 2013
“Sand Bags” by Dominik Parisien • Strange Horizons 11/18/13
“Ophelia” by Qyn • Strange Horizons 20 May 13
“Mary Shelley's Notebook” by Marge Simon • Songs of Eretz December 2013
“Allegra” by Christina Sng • Tales of the Talisman 8.3
“A Great Clerk of Necromancy” by Catherynne M. Valente • Apex Magazine June 2013
“Five Flavors” by Bryan Thao Worra • Expanded Horizons December 2013
“The Robo Sutra” by Bryan Thao Worra • Expanded Horizons July 2013
“Crazy” by Stephanie M. Wytovich • Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013)
Nominations per publication (49 publications):
| 2 | Apex Magazine | |
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Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 1 | Avatar Review | |
| 1 | AWEN | |
| 1 | Balticon Program Book | |
| 1 | Bête Noire | |
| 1 | Bull Spec | |
| 1 | ChiZine | |
| 1 | Chrome Baby | |
| 1 | Dark Mountain | |
| 1 | Disturbed Digest | |
| 2 | Dreams & Nightmares | |
| 2 | Expanded Horizons | |
| 1 | The First Bite of the Apple (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013) | |
| 2 | Flying Higher, eds. Shira Lipkin & Michael D. Thomas | |
| 1 | The Ghazal Page | |
| 4 | Goblin Fruit | |
| 1 | GUSTS: Contemporary Tanka | |
| 1 | Heroic Fantasy Quarterly | |
| 2 | Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013) | |
| 2 | Ideomancer | |
| 1 | Illumen | |
| 1 | Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse (The Poet's Haven, 2013) | |
| 1 | Jabberwock Review | |
| 2 | James Gunn’s Ad Astra | |
| 1 | Kaleidotrope | |
| 1 | The Literary Review of Canada | |
| 2 | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry | |
| 1 | The Mystic Nebula | |
| 3 | Mythic Delirium | |
| 1 | Niteblade | |
| 2 | Not One of Us | |
| 1 | Painted Bride Quarterly | |
| 1 | Paper Crow | |
| 1 | Postscripts to Darkness | |
| 1 | Prick of the Spindle | |
| 1 | The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press, 2013) | |
| 2 | SFPA Poetry Contest | |
| 1 | Silver Blade | |
| 2 | Songs of Eretz |
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| 1 | Spaces of Their Own (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013) | |
| 1 | Spellbound | |
| 7 | Star*Line | |
| 1 | Starship Century (Microwave Sciences, 2013) | |
| 3 | Strange Horizons | |
| 3 | Tales of the Talisman | |
| 1 | Weird Fiction Review | |
| 1 | Wisconsin Harvest II | |
| 1 | Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar |
