The 2016 Rhysling Awards
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
First Place (tie) “Keziah” • Ann K. Schwader • Dark Energies (P'rea Press) Second Place Third Place (tie) “The White Planet” • Albert Goldbarth • Boulevard 31:1 |
95 members voted
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2016 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2015
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Editor and Rhysling Chair: Charles Christian $14.95 + $4 U.S. shipping; $11 Canada; $17 international). E-mail the treasurer for postage costs on multiple copies. $4 .pdf. Payable by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com
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| Short Poems (73 poems) |
| “Abandonarium” • Stacey Balkun • Devilfish Review 13 |
| “Hard Being A God” • David Barber • Star*Line 38.4 |
| “Tech Support for the Apocalypse” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 101 |
| “Time Travel Vocabulary Problems” • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 100 |
| “The Astronaut’s Heart” • Robert Borski • Asimov’s SF, September |
| “Forever Tracking” • Bruce Boston • Grievous Angel, May |
| “Aboard the Transport Tesoro” • Lisa M. Bradley • Uncanny 7 |
| ‘hell-bent’ • Susan Burch • Grievous Angel, February |
| “Fried Okra” • Beth Cato • Tales of the Talisman 10.4 |
| “Elegy for WLC” • David Clink • The Dalhousie Review 94:3 |
| “Portrait” • David Clink • OnSpec Magazine, Winter |
| “The Sun Never Rises” • Michael Coolen • Latchkey Tales 2.6 |
| “Secondary Ghosts” • P. S. Cottier • Australian Poetry Journal 5:2 |
| “Pleistocene Park, Mammoth Steppe, Siberia” • Mark Danowsky • Star*Line 38.4 |
| “Worlds in Collision” • Bryan D. Dietrich • Farrago’s Wainscot, 2015 |
| “Ligeia” • Ashley Dioses • Spectral Realms 2 |
| “On The Other Hand” • James Dorr • Grievous Angel, August |
| “Why Have We Not Been Visited?” • Martin Elster • The Asses of Parnassus, 11/30/15 |
| “Institutional Memory” • Alexandra Erin • Star*Line 38.1 |
| “The Argument Box” • JD Fox • Abyss & Apex 55 |
| “The Boats” • Adele Gardner • Abyss & Apex 56 |
| “The More It Changes …” • Delbert R. Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review |
| “Couples Therapy” • Howie Good • The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles 10 |
| “Robot Agonistes” • Alan Ira Gordon • The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb |
| “How Eternal Night Was Created” • Vince Gotera • The Syzygy Poetry Journal 1:2 |
| “Gaunt” • Charles Gramlich • The Pedestal Magazine 76 |
| “Reversed Polarities” • Nin Harris • Strange Horizons, 6/1/15 |
| “Mummies” • Richard Hedderman • Rattle 49 |
| “Glinda's Dilemma” • Gloria Heffernan • Parody 4:1 |
| “Selenites” • John Philip Johnson • The Pedestal Magazine 76 |
| “Kraken” • Tim Jones • Interstellar Award |
| “Moth and Memory” • Sandra Kasturi • Postscripts to Darkness 6 |
| “Venice Letting Go” • Sandra Kasturi • Postscripts to Darkness 6 |
| “hard copy” • Herb Kauderer • Asimov’s Science Fiction, August |
| “luddite’s dream” • Herb Kauderer • Star*Line 38.4 |
| “The Changeling’s Gambit” • Sasha Kim • Strange Horizons, 9/14/15 |
| “re-entry heat” • Deborah P Kolodji • Mariposa 32 |
| “The Only Time Machine” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Sub- Saharan Magazine |
| “Rip Van Winkle On Mars” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • The Martian Wave, 2015 |
| “Post-Apocalyptic Toothbrush” • Betsy Ladyzhets • Strange Horizons, 6/29/15 |
| “Ode to Dorothy Gale” • Jenna Lê • Nonbinary Review 4 |
| “Flora and Fauna” • James Frederick Leach • HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II |
| “The Dreaded Dreadnoughtus” • B.J. Lee • Frostfire Worlds, November |
| “The Washerwoman’s Daughter” • Mary Soon Lee • Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books) |
| “Postlude” • Nolan Liebert • Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, October |
| “B'resheet” • Julia Burns Liberman • Strange Horizons, 10/7/15 |
| “An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice” • Sandra J. Lindow • Gyroscope Review 16:1 |
| “Under the Cancer Tree ” • Sandra J. Lindow • Tales of the Talisman 10.4 |
| “Four Chambers” • Shira Lipkin • Mythic Delirium, September |
| “Challenger” • Bronwyn Lovell • Strange Horizons, 6/8/15 |
| “It Came to Pass” • Mark Mansfield • Star*Line 38.3 |
| “The Subtle Arts of Chemistry” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • New Myths, March |
| “The Woman Sings Her Marriage Into Being” • Lev Mirov • Through the Gate 7 |
| “Bone-House” • A.J. Odasso • Liminality 4 |
| “Transition Metal” • A.J. Odasso • My Dear Watson: The Very Elements of Poetry (Beautiful Dragons Press) |
| “In Fits of Wildest Dreaming” • K. A. Opperman • Spectral Realms 3 |
| “The Palace of Phantasies” • K. A. Opperman • The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press) |
| “Requiem” • Matt Quinn • Eye to the Telescope 16 |
| “Lola” • Gabby Reed • Strange Horizons 7/20/15 |
| “Attack of the Saurus” • John Reinhart • Star*Line 38.4 |
| “Lot’s Wife” • Michelle Scalise-Piccirilli • HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II |
| “He Promised Me The Moon” • Marge Simon • Abyss & Apex 55 |
| “Serving the Blind Girl” • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 28 |
| “Before I Kill You (An Arch-Villainelle)” • David Sklar • Stone Telling 12 |
| “The Case of Trying Too Hard” • Steve Sneyd • Monomyth 57 |
| “raven speaks” • Michael Spring • Absinthe Poetry Review 2 |
| “buried pet turtles” • David Lee Summers • Zen of the Dead, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
| “Origami Crane/Light-Defying Spaceship” • Naru Dames Sundar • Liminality 5 |
| “Philomela in Seven Movements” • Natalia Theodoridou • Mythic Delirium, June |
| “An Unrequited Process Loops” • Marie Vibbert • Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2015 |
| “The Sun Ships” • Steven Withrow • Eye to the Telescope 16 |
| “Crater Conundrum Pizza” • Greer Woodward • 2015 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners |
| “Passenger Seat” • Stephanie Wytovich • An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press) |
| Long Poems (44 poems) |
| “Toujours Il Coûte Trop Cher” • Mike Allen & C.S.E. Cooney • Spectral Realms 3 |
| “I Dreamed a World” • Colleen Anderson • Polu Texni, 3/2/15 |
| “Season of the Ginzakura” • Ryu Ando • Strange Horizons, 7/13/15 |
| “Seasons in a Moon Ocean” • Daniel Ausema • Dreams and Nightmares 100 |
| from “Sunspots” • Simon Barraclough • Poetry, December 2015 |
| “Chronopatetic” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 100 |
| “Resonance Redux” • Bruce Boston • Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press) |
| “Black Momma-faces” • Angela Brown • Silver Blade 28 |
| “Dali's Apostles” • David E. Cowen • The Horror Zine, December 2015 |
| “The Comet Elm” • Martin Elster • 2015 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners |
| “Observations from the Black Ball Line Between Deimos and Callisto” • Alexandra Erin • The Martian Wave, 2015 |
| “A Brief History of Human Evolution” • Gary Every • Tales of the Talisman 10.4 |
| “Actaeon” • Alice Fanchiang • Strange Horizons, 11/11/15 |
| “Deliverance” • Adele Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/28/15 |
| “The White Planet” • Albert Goldbarth • Boulevard 31:1 |
| “Letter to Zelazny from Olympus Mons” • Vince Gotera • The Syzygy Poetry Journal 1:2 |
| “Artist Signature” • Susan Gray • Lunar Mission One, 10/16/15 |
| “Illusions of Man” • Deborah Guzzi • Silver Blade 26 |
| “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbeard” • Ed Higgins • Parody 4:1 |
| “Drowned City” • Ruth Jenkins • Liminality 3 |
| “Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story” • Sandra Kasturi • Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary, ed. Heather J. Wood (Stone Skin Press) |
| “Dragonslayer” • Mary Soon Lee • Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books) |
| “Training: Stances” • Mary Soon Lee • Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books) |
| “archival testimony fragments / minersong” • Rose Lemberg • Uncanny 2 |
| “Long Shadow” • Rose Lemberg • Strange Horizons, 9/3/15 |
| “And then the stars …” • Mack W. Mani • The Pedestal Magazine 76 |
| “Interiora II” • Alessandro Manzetti • Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing) |
| “Et je ne pleurais jamais les larmes cicatrisantes magiques; c'est seulement un mensonge joli: Aarne-Thompson Index No. 310” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Niteblade 31 |
| “Changeling” • Lynette Mejia • Liminality 6 |
| “An Unexpected Guest” • Lev Mirov • Liminality 5 |
| "Poetry Set: Red Wire, Monsters, Slipknot” • A.J. Odasso • SWAMP Writing 17 |
| “Halloween” • K. A. Opperman • The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press) |
| “It Begins With A Haunting” • Krysada Panusith Phounsiri • Dance Among Elephants (Sahtu Press) |
| “O Dervish of the Restless Heart” • Saba Syed Razvi • Nonbinary Review 6 |
| “The Coming Dark” • Wendy Rathbone • Star*Line 38.2 |
| “ugly bags of mostly water” • Yann Rousselot • Dawn of the Algorithm (Inkshares) |
| “The Noble Torturer” • Sofia Samatar • Bluestockings Magazine, 7/28/15 |
| “Keziah” • Ann K. Schwader • Dark Energies (P'rea Press) |
| “Adarna” • M. Sereno • Strange Horizons, 12/21/15 |
| “Twenty Years” • Christina Sng • New Myths 32 |
| “The Woman in the Coffee Shop” • Christina Sng • Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction 5 |
| “The Iterative Nature of the Magical Discovery Process” • Bogi Takács • Through the Gate, March |
| “A Love in Twelve Feathers” • Shveta Thakrar • Strange Horizons, 10/19/15 |
| “A Butterfly in Carcosa” • DJ Tyrer • Yellow Leaves 8 |
Nominations per publication (61 publications):
| 1 | Absinthe Poetry Review | |
| 3 | Abyss & Apex | |
| 3 | |
Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 1 | The Asses of Parnassus | |
| 1 | Australian Poetry Journal | |
| 1 | Bluestockings Magazine | |
| 1 | Boulevard | |
| 2 | The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press) | |
| 3 | Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books) | |
| 1 | The Dalhousie Review | |
| 1 | Dance Among Elephants (Sahtu Press) | |
| 1 | Dark Energies (P'rea Press) | |
| 1 | Dawn of the Algorithm (Inkshares) | |
| 1 | Devilfish Review | |
| 4 | Dreams and Nightmares | |
| 1 | Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing) | |
| 1 | An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press) | |
| 2 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 1 | Frostfire Worlds | |
| 1 | Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary, ed. Heather J. Wood (Stone Skin Press) | |
| 3 | Grievous Angel | |
| 1 | Gyroscope Review | |
| 2 | HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II | |
| 1 | The Horror Zine | |
| 1 | Interstellar Award | |
| 1 | Latchkey Tales | |
| 5 | Liminality | |
| 1 | Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction | |
| 1 | The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles | |
| 2 | The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction | |
| 1 | Mariposa | |
| 2 | The Martian Wave | |
| 1 | Monomyth | |
| 1 | My Dear Watson: The Very Elements of Poetry (Beautiful Dragons Press) | |
| 1 | Mythic Delirium | |
| 2 | New Myths | |
| 1 | Niteblade | |
| 2 | Nonbinary Review | |
| 1 | OnSpec Magazine | |
| 2 | Parody | |
| 3 | The Pedestal Magazine | |
| 1 | Polu Texni | |
| 2 | Postscripts to Darkness | |
| 1 | Rattle | |
| 1 | Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press) | |
| 2 | SFPA Poetry Contest Winners | |
| 3 | Silver Blade | |
| 2 | Songs of Eretz Poetry Review | |
| 2 | Spectral Realms | |
| 7 | Star*Line | |
| 1 | Stone Telling | |
| 11 | Strange Horizons | |
| 1 | Sub-Saharan Magazine | |
| 1 | SWAMP Writing | |
| 2 | The Syzygy Poetry Journal | |
| 2 | Tales of the Talisman | |
| 2 | Through the Gate | |
| 2 | Uncanny | |
| 1 | Yellow Leaves | |
| 1 | Zen of the Dead, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) | |
| 1 | Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry |
