Rhysling Award

__NOTOC__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.

Best Long Poem winners and finalists

1978

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

1979

*Winner: Michael Bishop "For the Lady of a Physicist"

1980

*Winner: Andrew Joron "The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes"

1981

*Winner: Thomas M. Disch "On Science Fiction"

1982

*Winner: Ursula K. Le Guin "The Well of Baln"

1983

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

1984

*Winner: Joe Haldeman "Saul's Death: Two Sestinas"

1985

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

1986

*Winner: Andrew Joron "Shipwrecked on Destiny Five"

1987

*Winner: W. Gregory Stewart "Daedalus"

1988

*Winner: Lucius Shepard "White Trains"

1989

*Winner: (tie): Bruce Boston "In the Darkened Hours" ; John M. Ford "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station"

1990

*Winner: Patrick McKinnon "dear spacemen"

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"

1992

*Winner: W. Gregory Stewart "the button and what you know"

1993

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

1994

*Winner: W. Gregory Stewart and Robert Frazier "Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale"

1995

*Winner: David Lunde "Pilot, Pilot"

1996

*Winner: Margaret B. Simon "Variants of the Obsolete"

1997

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

1998

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

1999

*Winner: Bruce Boston "Confessions of a Body Thief"

2000

*Winner: Geoffrey A. Landis "Christmas (after we all get time machines)"

2001

*Winner: Joe Haldeman "January Fires"

2002

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

2003

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

2004

*Winner: Theodora Goss "Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks"

2005

*Winner: Tim Pratt "Soul Searching"

2006

*Winner: Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Tin Men"

2007

*Winner: Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

2008

*Winner: Catherynne M. Valente "The Seven Devils of Central California"

Best Short Poem winners and finalists

1978

*Winner: (tie): Duane Ackerson "The Starman" ; Andrew Joron "Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night" ; Sonya Dorman "Corruption of Metals"

1979

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

1980

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

1981

*Winner: Ken Duffin "Meeting Place"

1982

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

1983

*Winner: Alan P. Lightman "In Computers"

1984

*Winner: Helen Ehrlich "Two Sonnets"

1985

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

1986

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

1987

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

1988

*Winner: (tie): Bruce Boston "The Nightmare Collector" ; Suzette Haden Elgin "Rocky Road to Hoe"

1989

*Winner: Short Poem: Robert Frazier "Salinity"

1990

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

1991

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

1992

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

1993

*Winner: Jane Yolen "Will"

1994

*Winner: (tie): Bruce Boston "Spacer's Compass" ; Jeff VanderMeer "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over"

1995

*Winner: Dan Raphael "Skin of Glass"

1996

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

1997

*Winner: W. Gregory Stewart "Day Omega"

1998

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

1999

*Winner: Laurel Winter "egg horror poem"

2000

*Winner: Rebecca Marjesdatter "Grimoire"

2001

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

2002

*Winner: William John Watkins "We Die as Angels"

2003

*Winner: Ruth Berman "Potherb Gardening"

2004

*Winner: Roger Dutcher "Just Distance"

2005

*Winner: Greg Beatty "No Ruined Lunar City"

2006

*Winner: Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

2007

*Winner: Rich Ristow "The Graven Idol's Godheart"

2008

*Winner: F.J. Bergmann "Eating Light"

External links

* [http://www.sfpoetry.com/rhyslingarchive/pages/rhyswin.html Official list of Rhysling Award winners]
* [http://www.sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html SFPA Rhysling Anthology]
* [http://www.sfpoetry.com/alchemy.html The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase]