The 2019 Rhysling Awards
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place (tie) “3D-Printed Brother” |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
124 members voted
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2019 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2018
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| Short Poems (85 poems) |
| 3D-Printed Brother • Millie Ho • Strange Horizons 9/25/18 |
| Acceptable Documentation • Sonya Taaffe • Sycorax Journal 1 |
| After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls • Beth Cato • Mythic Delirium 4.3 |
| Alien Interview Questions • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams and Nightmares 109 |
| An Alien Visits an Earth Psychiatrist • John Grey • The Pedestal Magazine 82 |
| “as if …” • LeRoy Gorman • Atlas Poetica: 25 Science Fiction Tanka & Kyoka, eds. Julie Bloss Kelsey & Susan Burch |
| beseeching the kitchen gods • M. C. Childs • Grievous Angel 5/20/18 |
| Cardiad • Virginia M. Mohlere • Mythic Delirium 4.4 |
| A City Built on Bones • Ann K. Schwader • Abyss & Apex 66 |
| Colorless Reflection • Cindy O’Quinn • Poppy Road Review 8/29/18 |
| Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting • August Huerta • Strange Horizons 3/19/18 |
| Consumption • Jennifer Ruth Jackson • Eye to the Telescope 29 |
| The Crimson Witch • K. A. Opperman • Eye to the Telescope 30 |
| Curse of Waccasassa Lagoon • John Reinhart • Dreams and Nightmares 109 |
| Data Value • Patricia Gomes • Star*Line 41.2 |
| Dead-Eye Girl • Holly Lyn Walrath • Liminality 17 |
| Dear Creator • Mary Soon Lee • Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February |
| The Dissolution of Icarus • Michelle Muenzler • Liminality 18 |
| Divinatory • Rose Lemberg • Sycorax Journal 1 |
| Down in Windy Hollow • Jenny Blackford • The School Magazine, June |
| drop some amens • Brandon O’Brien • Uncanny 21 |
| Echoes of Light from Orbit • Megan Engelhardt • Asimov’s SF, November/December |
| Engineered • Bruce McAllister • Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March/April |
| Entanglement • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • Entanglement (diminuendo press) |
| Esprit d'escalier • May Chong • Apparition Lit 1 |
| Excalibur’s Lament • P.S. Cottier • Eye to the Telescope 27 |
| Flat Dyson • Francis W. Alexander • Spaceports & Spidersilk, July |
| Forest Mother • Christina Sng • The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge |
| Fortune Favors the Cold • Katherine Inskip • Abyss & Apex 68 |
| From Her Tower, the Lady of Shalott Sees the Ice Age Come • R. Mac Jones • Eye to the Telescope 27 |
| Galahad Returns from the Holy Wars • David E. Cowen • Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press) |
| Generation Ship • David Barber • Kaleidotrope, Summer |
| The Girl and Her Wolf Dog • Christina Sng • Spectral Realms 8 |
| Golgothan (Shit Demon's Sonnet) • David F. Shultz • Deadman's Tome Shit Fest, ed. Jesse Dedman (?) |
| Heart’s Desire • Lynn White • The Sirens Call 41 |
| Hey Man, Nice Shot • Gretchen Tessmer • Strange Horizons 2/26/18 |
| Intruders • Cindy O’Quinn • Star*Line 41.2 |
| The Ladies of Lancashire • Clay F. Johnson • Eye to the Telescope 30 |
| Laika • Holly Day • Dreams and Nightmares 109 |
| Lament of the Four Moons • Kendall Evans & John Philip Johnson • Asimov’s SF, ? |
| Lost Memories • Bruce Boston • The Literary Hatchet 19 |
| The Maenad to Her Artist Friend • Amal El-Mohtar • Strange Horizons 2/12/18 |
| Mars Must Remember • Denise Dumars • The Pedestal Magazine 82 |
| Mining Time • P.S. Cottier • Not Very Quiet 2 |
| Monster, Creature, Human • Herb Kauderer • Dreams and Nightmares 109 |
| My Little Vampire • Adele Gardner • Dreams and Nightmares 110 |
| The Mysterious Hermit • Krystal Volney • krystalvolneyfanssite |
| Neuraweb • Logan Thrasher Collins • Abyss & Apex 67 |
| The Nightmare Thing • Sandra Kasturi • Eye to the Telescope 29 |
| O Siren • Ashley Dioses • Liquid Imagination 38 |
| Ode to the Gorgon • K. A. Opperman • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| Okuri Inu, or the sending-off dog demon • Betsy Aoki • Uncanny 22 |
| Our Lady of the Winter Squash • Jenny Blackford • Polu Texni 10/29/18 |
| Pan’s Descent • Bruce Boston • Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing) |
| Past Is Present • Deborah L. Davitt • Modern Poetry Review 8 |
| The Patron Saint of Alien Abductees • Noel Sloboda • Evansville Review XXVIII |
| Pinocchio Plays the Cotton Club • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 41.3 |
| Planck Length • David F. Shultz • Dreams and Nightmares 108 |
| Planetary Lensing • Herb Kauderer • Dreams & Nightmares 109 |
| Planktivorous Fish and the Structure of Pelagic Plankton • David Clink • Juniper 2:2 |
| Pouring the Pennyroyal • Andrea Blythe & Laura Madeline Wiseman • Priestess & Hierophant 5 |
| Quetzalcoatlus roboti Heads Home • Vince Gotera • Multiverse, ed. Russell Jones (Shoreline of Infinity) |
| Relic • Kari Flickinger • Riddled with Arrows 2.3 |
| The Sea Horse Isles • Michael H. Hanson • Untimely Frost: Poetry Unthawed, eds. Suzie & Bruce Lockhart (Lycan Valley Press) |
| The Sea Never Says It Loves You • Fran Wilde • Uncanny 21 |
| Seraphima • Hal Y. Zhang • Liminality 15 |
| Son of Aswang • Vince Gotera • The Philippines Graphic, October |
| The Southern Lady • Marge Simon • War (Crystal Lake Publishing) |
| Spatial Arrangement • David F. Shultz • Abyss & Apex 65 |
| Stand and Wait • Herb Kauderer • Scifaikuest print, August |
| Station Rain • Erik Burdett • Apparition Lit 4 |
| Stephen Hawking • Greer Woodward • Haikuniverse 3/24/18 |
| That's one small step for (a) man … • Russell Jones • Dark Matters (Tapsalteerie Press) |
| Things That Go Bump & Smile in the Night • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Altered Reality Magazine ? |
| This Sacred Earth • Deborah L. Davitt • Abyss & Apex 67 |
| Thunderstorm in Glasgow, July 25 2013 • Amal El-Mohtar • Fireside Fiction broadside |
| Trips to Impossible Cities • Sandra Kasturi • Amazing Stories Magazine 2 |
| Try the Veal • Robert Beveridge • Vastarien 1:1 |
| Universal Immigrants • Ann K. Schwader • Star*Line 41.1 |
| Unstole It • Jim Davies • Altered Reality Magazine ? |
| Venusian Arachnoids • David F. Shultz • Star*Line 41.1 |
| Waterworld • Terry Persun • Space & Time Magazine 131 |
| What Is Dead • Kristin Garth • Luna Luna Magazine 4/13/18 |
| What Loves You • Jeff Crandall • Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October |
| Wraiths • Wade German • Vastarien 1:1 |
| Long Poems (54 poems) |
| 3-Minute Future • F. J. Bergmann • Unlikely Stories V |
| After the Wolf • Jeff Crandall • Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April |
| Alima among the Trees • T. D. Walker • Projector Magazine 1 |
| Atomic Numbers • D. A. Xaolin Spires • Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February |
| Cassini’s Mini-Packets Home • Jessy Randall • Strange Horizons 7/2/18 |
| Cataclysm Days: Arizona Conservatives Revert to Old Forms of Worship • Chuck Von Nordheim • Liquid Imagination 37 |
| The Cat’s Daughters • Nitoo Das • Uncanny 20 |
| Cinderella's Pumpkin • Colleen Anderson • Polu Texni 5/28/18 |
| The Collaborator • Cassandra Rose Clarke • Illumen, Spring |
| Commemoration of the Divine Passion • William Cook • Eye to the Telescope 30 |
| Conditions of the Curse • Herb Kauderer • Exploits in the Adirondacks, eds. (pub518) |
| Dragon Mountain • Mary Soon Lee • Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 35 |
| Drug Wars • Marge Simon • War (Crystal Lake Publishing) |
| The Fairies in the Crawlspace • Beth Cato • Uncanny 21 |
| Finding Hecate • Clay F. Johnson • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| five sigils • David F. Shultz • Eye to the Telescope 27 |
| Getting to Mars • Roger Dutcher • The Pedestal Magazine 82 |
| If you would seek a Seeress • Rebecca Buchanan • Star*Line 41.1 |
| In the Vaults • Adele Gardner • The Pedestal Magazine 82 |
| It Took Some Time • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Devilfish Review 20 |
| The Kind Thing to Do • Kurt Newton • Polu Texni 4/23/18 |
| The Last Transport • Frank Coffman • Abyss & Apex 65 |
| Lorelei • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 22 |
| Lost Girls • Rachel Verkade • Liminality 15 |
| Misstep • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 41.4 |
| Mother • Deborah L. Davitt • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| Mother Giant • Peri Fae Blomquist • Mythic Delirium 4.4 |
| nakajiru • D. A. Xiaolin Spires • Mithila Review 10 |
| The Nightmares • Wade German • Spectral Realms 8 |
| Nixon's Planet • Peter Ullian • Secret Histories and Exobiologies (Poet's Haven) |
| Om Economics • Sandra J. Lindow • 2018 SFPA Poetry Contest |
| Our Minds Are Jewels of Uncertainty • Terrie Leigh Relf & Kendall Evans • Star*Line 41.3 |
| Past Far Gone • Toby Macnutt • Arsenika 3 |
| The Poisoning • Jessica Drake-Thom • Eye to the Telescope 29 |
| The Prophet’s Vision • W. C. Roberts • Polu Texni 10/15/18 |
| The Protest: Ant Work Ethic • Michael H. Payne • Civilized Beasts III, ed. Vincent Corbeau (Weasel Press) |
| Ragnarök: A Prism • Alexandra Seidel • Sycorax Journal 1 |
| Rapunzel • Christina Sng • Dreams and Nightmares 109 |
| Rex Arthurs • Deborah L. Davitt • Eye to the Telescope 27 |
| The Sea-Wolf of Brittany • Deborah L. Davitt • Liminality 17 |
| The Search • Deborah L. Davitt • Zetetic, May |
| Seven Witches • Alexandra Seidel • Eye to the Telescope 30 |
| Skathi’s Spite • Deborah L. Davitt • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice |
| Snow: White; White: Snow • Erin Robinson • Liminality 18 |
| The Space of One Paragraph • Mark McCutcheon • Riddled with Arrows 2.2 |
| The Stars Are Not Eternal • Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Entanglement (diminuendo press) |
| Third-Floor Bookstore • Herb Kauderer • Altered Reality Magazine 12 |
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Monster • Bruce Boston • Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties (Firbolg Publishing) |
| Two Dozen Restaurant Concepts for a Gentrified Mixed-Use Vacancy • James Ebersole • The Cockroach Conservatory Vol 1: The Working Zealot's Guide to Gaining Capital in Pre-Apocalyptic America |
| Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld • Sarah Tolmie • On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, April |
| Verdant • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 110 |
| The Visionary • Ian Futter • Spectral Realms 9 |
| White Siege • Alessandro Manzetti & Marge Simon • War (Crystal Lake Publishing) |
| The Witch’s House • Jeana Jorgenson • Liminality 15 |
| Nominations per publication (64 publications): | ||
| 6 | |
Abyss & Apex |
| 3 | Altered Reality Magazine | |
| 1 | Amazing Stories Magazine | |
| 2 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | |
| 2 | Apparition Lit | |
| 1 | Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing) | |
| 2 | Asimov’s Science Fiction | |
| 1 | Atlas Poetica: 25 Science Fiction Tanka & Kyoka, eds. Julie Bloss Kelsey & Susan Burch | |
| 1 | Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties (Firbolg Publishing) | |
| 1 | Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press) | |
| 1 | Civilized Beasts III, ed. Vincent Corbeau (Weasel Press) | |
| 1 | The Cockroach Conservatory | |
| 1 | Dark Matters (Tapsalteerie Press) | |
| 1 | Deadman's Tome Shit Fest, ed. Jesse Dedman (?) | |
| 1 | Devilfish Review | |
| 8 | Dreams and Nightmares | |
| 3 | Entanglement (diminuendo press) | |
| 4 | Eternal Haunted Summer | |
| 1 | Evansville Review | |
| 1 | Exploits in the Adirondacks, ed. ? (pub518) | |
| 11 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 3 | Fantasy & Science Fiction | |
| 1 | Fireside Fiction | |
| 2 | Grievous Angel | |
| 1 | Haikuniverse | |
| 1 | Heroic Fantasy Quarterly | |
| 1 | Illumen | |
| 1 | Kaleidotrope | |
| 1 | krystalvolneyfanssite | |
| 1 | The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge | |
| 6 | Liminality | |
| 2 | Liquid Imagination | |
| 1 | The Literary Hatchet | |
| 1 | Luna Luna Magazine | |
| 1 | Mithila Review | |
| 1 | Modern Poetry Review | |
| 1 | Multiverse, ed. Russell Jones (Shoreline of Infinity) | |
| 3 | Mythic Delirium | |
| 1 | Not Very Quiet | |
| 1 | On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic | |
| 4 | The Pedestal Magazine | |
| 1 | The Philippines Graphic | |
| 1 | Poetry Northwest | |
| 4 | Polu Texni | |
| 1 | Poppy Road Review | |
| 1 | Priestess & Hierophant | |
| 1 | Projector Magazine | |
| 2 | Riddled with Arrows | |
| 1 | The School Magazine | |
| 1 | SFPA Poetry Contest | |
| 1 | Scifaikuest | |
| 1 | Secret Histories and Exobiologies (Poet's Haven) | |
| 1 | The Sirens Call | |
| 1 | Space & Time Magazine | |
| 1 | Spaceports & Spidersilk | |
| 2 | Spectral Realms | |
| 8 | Star*Line | |
| 4 | Strange Horizons | |
| 3 | Sycorax Journal | |
| 6 | Uncanny | |
| 1 | Unlikely Stories | |
| 1 | Untimely Frost: Poetry Unthawed, eds. Suzie & Bruce Lockhart (Lycan Valley Press) | |
| 2 | Vastarien | |
| 3 | War (Crystal Lake Publishing) | |
