2024 Rhysling Award Finalists for poems published in 2023
These poems were selected from the candidate list by this year's Rhysling jury.
Items are sorted alphabetically by title, ignoring words like "the" or "a."
Short Poems (50 finalists)
- Attn: Prime Real Estate Opportunity! • Emily Ruth Verona • Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection Volume II
- The Beauty of Monsters • Angela Liu • Small Wonders 1
- The Blight of Kezia • Patricia Gomes • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- The Day We All Died, A Little • Lisa Timpf • Radon 5
- Deadweight • Jack Cooper • Propel 7
- Dear Mars • Susan L. Lin • The Sprawl Mag 1.2
- Dispatches from the Dragon's Den • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 46.2
- Dr. Jekyll • West Ambrose • Thin Veil Press December
- First Eclipse: Chang-O and the Jade Hare • Emily Jiang • Uncanny 53
- Five of Cups Considers Forgiveness • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 31
- Gods of the Garden • Steven Withrow • Spectral Realms 19
- The Goth Girls' Gun Gang • Marisca Pichette • The Dread Machine 3.2
- Guiding Star • Tim Jones • Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa, ed. Lee Murray (Clan Destine Press)
- Hallucinations Gifted to Me by Heatstroke • Morgan L. Ventura • Banshee 15
- hemiplegic migraine as willing human sacrifice • Ennis Rook Bashe • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter Solstice
- Hi! I am your Cortical Update! • Mahaila Smith • Star*Line 46.3
- How to Make the Animal Perfect? • Linda D. Addison • Weird Tales 100
- I Dreamt They Cast a Trans Girl to Give Birth to the Demon • Jennessa Hester • HAD October
- Invasive • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Polar Starlight 9
- kan-da-ka • Nadaa Hussein • Apparition Lit 23
- Language as a Form of Breath • Angel Leal • Apparition Lit October
- The Lantern of September • Scott Couturier • Spectral Realms 19
- Let Us Dream • Myna Chang • Small Wonders 3
- The Magician's Foundling • Angel Leal • Heartlines Spec 2
- The Man with the Stone Flute • Joshua St. Claire • Abyss & Apex 87
- Mass-Market Affair • Casey Aimer • Star*Line 46.4
- Mom's Surprise • Francis W. Alexander • Tales from the Moonlit Path June
- A Murder of Crows • Alicia Hilton • Ice Queen 11
- No One Now Remembers • Geoffrey Landis • Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov./Dec.
- orion conquers the sky • Maria Zoccula • On Spec 33.2
- Pines in the Wind • Karen Greenbaum-Maya • The Beautiful Leaves (Bamboo Dart Press)
- The Poet Responds to an Invitation from the AI on the Moon • T.D. Walker • Radon Journal 5
- A Prayer for the Surviving • Marisca Pichette • Haven Speculative 9
- Pre-Nuptial • F. J. Bergmann • The Vampiricon (Mind's Eye Publications)
- The Problem of Pain • Anna Cates • Eye on the Telescope 49
- The Return of the Sauceress • F. J. Bergmann • The Flying Saucer Poetry Review February
- Sea Change • David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Ann K. Schwader • Scifaikuest May
- Seed of Power • Linda D. Addison • The Book of Witches ed. Jonathan Strahan (Harper Collins)
- Sleeping Beauties • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase X
- Solar Punks • J. D. Harlock • The Dread Machine 3.1
- Song of the Last Hour • Samuel A. Betiku • The Deadlands 22
- Sphinx • Mary Soon Lee • Asimov's September/October
- Storm Watchers (a drabbun) • Terrie Leigh Relf • Space & Time
- Sunflower Astronaut • Charlie Espinosa • Strange Horizons July
- Three Hearts as One • G. O. Clark • Asimov's May/June
- Troy • Carolyn Clink • Polar Starlight 12
- Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary • John Grey • Medusa's Kitchen September
- Under World • Jacqueline West • Carmina Magazine September
- Walking in the Starry World • John Philip Johnson • Orion's Belt May
- Whispers in Ink • Angela Yuriko Smith • Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Long Poems (25 finalists)
- Archivist of a Lost World • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4
- As the witch burns • Marisca Pichette • Fantasy 87
- Brigid the Poet • Adele Gardner • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice
- Coding a Demi-griot (An Olivian Measure) • Armoni “Monihymn” Boone • Fiyah 26
- Cradling Fish • Laura Ma • Strange Horizons May
- Dream Visions • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Eccentric Orbits 4
- Eight Dwarfs on Planet X • Avra Margariti • Radon Journal 3
- The Giants of Kandahar • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 88
- How to Haunt a Northern Lake • Lora Gray • Uncanny 55
- Imposter Syndrome • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 124
- The Incessant Rain • Rhiannon Owens • Evermore 3
- Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons November
- Little Brown Changeling • Lauren Scharhag • Aphelion 283
- A Mere Million Miles from Earth • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality April
- Pilot • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Joy Unbound eds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)
- Protocol • Jamie Simpher • Small Wonders 5
- St. Sebastian Goes To Confession • West Ambrose • Mouthfeel 1
- Sleep Dragon • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Slow Dreaming • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Sleep (Written Image Press)
- Value Measure • Joseph Halden and Rhonda Parrish • Dreams and Nightmares 125
- A Weather of My Own Making • Nnadi Samuel • Silver Blade 56
- Welcoming the New Girl • Beth Cato • Penumbric October
- What You Find at the Center • Elizabeth R McClellan • Haven Spec Magazine 12
- The Witch Makes Her To-Do List • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 50
- The Year It Changed • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 46.4
