The 2020 Rhysling Awards
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place (tie) “The Day the Animals Turned to Sand” • Tyler Hagemann • Amazing Stories, Spring |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place (tie) “Ode to the Artistic Temperament” • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 42 |
112 members voted
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2020 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2019
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84 members nominated poems. 95 poets were nominated.
| Short Poems (77 poems) |
| “Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, Pilots the Interstellar Ark” • Nisa Malli • Apparition Lit 7 |
| “Aliens declutter” • PS Cottier • Scifaikuest, August |
| “All-Father” • Vince Gotera • Dreams and Nightmares 111 |
| “Alternate Galatea” • Amelia Gorman • Liminality 21 |
| “Area 51 Custodian Gets Coffee” • Juleigh Howard-Hobson • Star*Line 42.4 |
| “Blood Moon” • Sara Backer • Polu Texni, November 24 |
| “The Book of Fly” • John Philip Johnson • Rattle 63 |
| “The Certainty of Seeing” • Michelle Muenzler • Polu Texni, 3 June |
| “Collie Dogs In Space” • Debby Feo • A Poet Explores The Stars, ed. J. Alan Erwine (Nomadic Delirium Press) |
| “Continuum” • G. O. Clark • Analog, September/October |
| “Creation: Dark Matter Dating App” • Sandra J. Lindow • Asimov's SF, July/August |
| “Crimson Faces” • Maxwell I. Gold • Space & Time Magazine 135 |
| “The Day the Animals Turned to Sand” • Tyler Hagemann • Amazing Stories, Spring |
| “Disassembly at Auction” • Robin Wyatt Dunn • Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 30:4 |
| “Don’t Open the Box!” • Kyla Lee Ward • The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities (P'rea Press) |
| “drag strip drag” • Francine P. Lewis • Eye to the Telescope 32 |
| “Eldritch Horror” • Katie Manning • Bowery Gothic I |
| “Encore” • Tim Jones • Big Hair Was Everywhere (ESAW) |
| “Fallen But Not Down” • Sarah Cannavo • Liminality 20 |
| “Fallen Star” • Clay F. Johnson • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| From “Moon Sonnet” • Lily Zhou • Poetry, May |
| “The Ghosts of Those” • Ron Riekki • Star*Line 42.2 |
| “The Girl who Loved Birds” • Clara Blackwood • Amazing Stories 3 |
| “Goddamn These Minotaurs” • Persephone Erin Hudson • paintbucket, November 10 |
| “haiku” • Juan M. Perez • haikuniverse, June 8 |
| “Halsted IV” • Jeff Crandall • Fantasy & Science Fiction, September/October |
| “How to Care for Your Yesterday's Camel” • Christina Olson • The Last Mastodon (Rattle Foundation) |
| “How to Colonize Ganymede” • Mary Soon Lee • New Myths 48 |
| “How To Dance With Dark Matter” • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 37 |
| “Huitzilopochtli” • Lorraine Schein • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice |
| “If All the Seas Were Blood” • D. L. Myers • Oracles from the Black Pool (Hippocampus Press) |
| “The Journey” • Deborah L. Davitt • Polu Texni, April 1 |
| “Lady Macbeth’s Green Gown” • Jacqueline West • Liminality 19 |
| “Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963)” • Jessy Randall • Strange Horizons, December 9 |
| “Mary Poppins, 2100” • Cathy Tenzo • Typehouse 18 |
| “The Mother Searches for Her Own Story” • Mary McMyne • Strange Horizons, November 11 |
| “Mothsong” • John Philip Johnson • Liquid Imagination 42 |
| “My Ghost Will Know The Way” • Beth Cato • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August |
| “New Stars” • F. J. Bergmann • Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest |
| “The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry” • Kate Pentecost • Liminality 19 |
| “No Fairy Tale World” • Lisa Timpf • New Myths 47 |
| “The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Star*Line 42.4 |
| “Objects of Desire” • Gerri Leen • Dreams and Nightmares 113 |
| “Óòjí Íjè [Kola Journey]” • Uche Ogbuji • FIYAH Literary Magazine 11 |
| “The Planets? Sweet …” • Harris Coverley • Star*Line 42.4 |
| “Phobos and Deimos” • W. C. Roberts • Chrome Bairn 82 |
| “Prayer on a Friday Morning” • L. R. Harvey • American Diversity Report, December |
| “A Purring Cat is a Time Machine” • Beth Cato • Daikaijuzine 1 |
| “Regarding me” • Michael H. Hanson • HWA Poetry Showcase VI |
| “Reparation” • Christina Sng • Spectral Realms 11 |
| “Revisiting the origins of language” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Space & Time Magazine 133 |
| “Robert Goddard at Roswell” • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 42.4 |
| “The Root King’s Winter” • Jessica P. Wick • Enchanted Living/Faerie Magazine, Winter |
| “A Rose Waits” • Adele Gardner • Dreams and Nightmares 113 |
| “The Ruined Library” • Bruce Boston • Asimov's SF, May/June |
| “The Sacrifices” • Mike Allen • Sycorax 2 |
| “Samsara” • Jason O’Toole • The Scrib Arts Journal, Fall |
| “Seven Reasons to Have Hope for a Better Future. Number Five Will Really Get You!” • Catherine Kyle • Quail Bell, February |
| “shoals of Miami” • Greer Woodward • Troutswirl, December 4 |
| “Singing Ghost” • Catherine Kyle • Quail Bell, February |
| “The Snow Globe” • Marge Simon • Polu Texni, 8 December |
| “The Solace of the Farther Moon” • Allan Rozinski • Weirdbook Annual 2 |
| “Sphere” • Francis W. Alexander • Scifaikuest XVI:1 |
| “Steampunk Christmas” • David Clink • Star*Line 42.4 |
| “Styx” • Christina Sng • Spectral Realms 11 |
| “Taking, Keeping” • Jessica J. Horowitz • Apparition Lit 5 |
| “Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild” • F. J. Bergmann • Eye to the Telescope 32 |
| “Three of Swords, King of Cups” • Ali Trotta • Fireside Fiction, July |
| “To Skeptics” • Mary Soon Lee • Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August |
| “The Unseen” • Fran Wilde • Fireside Fiction, March |
| “Wake Up, Little Stevie” • Christina Olson • The Last Mastodon (Rattle Foundation) |
| “What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain” • Beth Cato • Star*Line 42.1 |
| “when my father reprograms my mother {” • Caroline Mao • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive |
| “Where Have the Space Heroes Gone?” • Darrell Schweitzer • Amazing Stories 77:1 |
| “The Wishing Clock of Gassytown” • Deborah Wong • Frozen Wavelets 1 |
| “Witch” • Mary Soon Lee • Polu Texni, October 21 |
| “The Wolfman and Space Girl” • Neil Sloboda • Neon 48 |
| Long Poems (49 poems) |
| “Afterlife” • F. J. Bergmann • Shoreline of Infinity 14 |
| “Borrower” • Cislyn Smith • Strange Horizons, July 29 |
| “Bright Record” • John W. Sexton • Polu Texni, April 8 |
| “Cannibal Rex” • Allan Rozinski • Anatomy of Hate, ed. Karen Otto (Alban Lake Publishing) |
| “Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner” • Beth Cato • Uncanny 27 |
| “Children of the Trees” • Deborah L. Davitt • Polu Texni, March 11 |
| “The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly” • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 28 |
| “The City That Changed Hands” • Maya Chhabra • Strange Horizons, December 23 |
| “Consumption” • Emma J. Gibbon • Eye to the Telescope 33 |
| “Crop Circles” • Lori R. Lopez • Deep Fried Horror, Mother's Day Edition |
| “The Daily Freak Show” • Bruce Boston • New Myths 47 |
| “Driven” • Marcie Tentchoff • Outposts of Beyond VII:1 |
| “Eight Simulations for the Missing” • T. D. Walker • Small Waiting Objects (CW Books) |
| “Envoy” • F. J. Bergmann • Polu Texni, October 28 |
| “For My Daughter Who Will Ask for a Seismograph Implant” • T. D. Walker • Small Waiting Objects (CW Books) |
| “Fune-RL” • Emma J. Gibbon • Strange Horizons, 15 July |
| “Green Sky” • Herb Kauderer • Influence of the Moon, ed. Shannon Yseult (518 Publishing) |
| “Heliobacterium daphnephilum” • Rebecca Buchanan • Star*Line 42.3 |
| “If Love is Real, So Are Fairies” • Cynthia So • Uncanny 29 |
| “In The End, Only The Gods” • Christina Sng • Tales Of The Lost Vol. 1, eds. Eugene Johnson & Steve Dillon (Things in the Well) |
| “Inside My Belly” • Alessandro Manzetti • The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing) |
| “Keep My Course True” • Gerri Leen • Dreams and Nightmares 112 |
| “Lines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey” • Clay F. Johnson • Influence of the Moon, ed. Shannon Yseult (518 Publishing) |
| “The Macabre Modern” • Kyla Lee Ward • The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities (P'rea Press) |
| “Maculation” • F. J. Bergmann • Spectral Realms 10 |
| “The making of dragons” • Herb Kauderer • Altered Reality Magazine, January 30 |
| “The Mining Town” • Holly Lyn Walrath • 2019 SFPA Poetry Contest |
| “My Stories Are Hungry” • John C. Mannone • American Diversity Report, April 10 |
| “Nan-e” • Leon Mackenzie • Neon 49 |
| “Nocturnal Embers” • Lori R. Lopez • The Sirens Call 43 |
| “Obsidian” • Fungisayi Sasa • New Myths 46 |
| “Ode to the Artistic Temperament” • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 42 |
| “Reincarnation” • John C. Mannone • Abyss & Apex 69 |
| “A Ride through Faerie” • Clay F. Johnson • Enchanted Conversation, September |
| “The Scarecrow’s Lover” • Alexandria Baisden • Abyss & Apex 72 |
| “The Scroll of Thoth” • Frank Coffman • The Coven’s Hornbook and Other Poems (Bold Venture Press) |
| “Scylla and Charybdis” • Wade German • Weird Fiction Review 9 |
| “Sea Witch From the Deep” • Ellen Huang • Apparition Lit 7 |
| “The Storm Witch” • Colleen Anderson • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice |
| “Stormbound” • Marsheila Rockwell • Polu Texni, February 11 |
| “Sycophantam astrum” • Rebecca Buchanan • Eye to the Telescope 34 |
| “Tarot Times” • Bruce Boston • Illumen, summer |
| “tetrahedral edifices of a sticky rice realm” • D. A. Xiaolin Spires • Mithila Review, November 20 |
| “Treason” • Shana Ross • Liminality 20 |
| “the undrowned” • Catherine Kyle • Crab Fat Magazine, January |
| “why not?” • Gerri Leen • New Myths 49 |
| “witches we” • Adele Gardner • Bluff & Vine 3 |
| “The Wolf Isn't The Only One Who Hides in Human Clothes” • Natalie Wang • Corvid Queen, January 5 |
| “The Woman Who Talks to Her Dog at the Beach” • Geoff Inverarity • Geist 113 |
| Nominations per publication (67 publications): | ||
| 2 | Abyss & Apex | |
| 1 | Altered Reality Magazine | |
| 3 | Amazing Stories | |
| 2 | American Diversity Report | |
| 1 | Analog Science Fiction and Fact | |
| 1 | Anatomy of Hate, ed. Karen Otto (Alban Lake Publishing) | |
| 3 | Apparition Lit | |
| 2 | |
Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 1 | Big Hair Was Everywhere (ESAW) | |
| 1 | Bluff & Vine | |
| 1 | Bowery Gothic | |
| 1 | Chrome Bairn | |
| 1 | Corvid Queen | |
| 1 | The Coven’s Hornbook and Other Poems (Bold Venture Press) | |
| 1 | Crab Fat Magazine | |
| 1 | Daikaijuzine | 1 | Deep Fried Horror |
| 4 | Dreams and Nightmares | |
| 1 | Enchanted Conversation | |
| 1 | Enchanted Living/Faerie Magazine | |
| 3 | Eternal Haunted Summer | |
| 5 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 2 | Fireside Fiction | |
| 1 | FIYAH Literary Magazine | |
| 1 | Frozen Wavelets | |
| 1 | Geist | |
| 1 | Haikuniverse | |
| 1 | Illumen | |
| 2 | Influence of the Moon, ed. Shannon Yseult (518 Publishing) | |
| 2 | The Last Mastodon (Rattle Foundation) | |
| 5 | Liminality | |
| 1 | Liquid Imagination | |
| 2 | The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities (P'rea Press) | |
| 3 | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | |
| 1 | Maria W. Faust 2019 Sonnet Contest | |
| 1 | Mithila Review | |
| 1 | Mobius: The Journal of Social Change | |
| 2 | Neon | |
| 5 | New Myths | |
| 1 | Oracles from the Black Pool (Hippocampus Press) | |
| 1 | Outposts of Beyond | |
| 1 | paintbucket | |
| 1 | The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing) | |
| 1 | A Poet Explores The Stars, ed. J. Alan Erwine (Nomadic Delirium Press) | |
| 1 | Poetry | |
| 9 | Polu Texni | |
| 2 | Quail Bell | |
| 1 | Rattle | |
| 2 | Scifaikuest | |
| 1 | The Scrib Arts Journal | |
| 1 | SFPA Poetry Contest | |
| 1 | Shoreline of Infinity | |
| 1 | Silver Blade | |
| 1 | The Sirens Call | |
| 2 | Small Waiting Objects (CW Books) | |
| 2 | Space & Time Magazine | |
| 3 | Spectral Realms | |
| 9 | Star*Line | |
| 6 | Strange Horizons | |
| 1 | Sycorax Journal | |
| 1 | Tales Of The Lost Vol. 1, eds. Eugene Johnson & Steve Dillon (Things in the Well) | |
| 1 | Troutswirl | |
| 1 | Typehouse | |
| 3 | Uncanny | |
| 1 | Uppagus | |
| 1 | Weird Fiction Review | |
| 1 | Weirdbook Annual | |
