The Science Fiction Poetry Association has finalized its 2018 Rhysling Award candidates, reports the group’s publication StarLine 41.2. Ninety-three members voted.
The Rhysling Award is given in two categories. “Best Long Poem” is for poems of 50+ lines, or for prose poems, of 500+ words. “Best Short Poem” is limited to poems of no more than 49 lines, or prose poems of no more than 499 words.
SFPA members have until June 15 to vote on the winners.
| Short Poems (87 poems) |
| “Advice to a Six-Year-Old” • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 40.2 |
| “After Midnight” • David Clink • Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty eds. Spider Robinson & James Alan Gardner (Edge, 2017) |
| “The Alchemy of Arsenic” • Neile Graham • Liminality 13 |
| “All-Purpose Spell for Banishment” • Lesley Wheeler • Salamander 45 |
| “An Announcement” • Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman • Uncanny 19 |
| “Apologies from the Moon” • Lynne Sargent • Wild Musette: The Sin Eater |
| “Astro-Archaeologist’s Log” • Vince Gotera • The Poet’s Haven Digest: Strange Land |
| “The Astronaut Nightmare” • Michael H. Hanson • When the Night Owl Screams (MoonDream Press, 2017) |
| “Astronomers” • Ace G. Pilkington • The Horror Zine, November |
| “Baalberith” • Robert Beveridge • Priestess & Hierophant 2 |
| “Baba Yaga: Her Almost Origin Story” • Minadora Macheret • Bramble & Thorn, ed. Nicci Mechler (Porkbelly Press) |
| “Beware” • Juleigh Howard-Hobson • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 22/9/17 |
| “Birth, Place” • Brandon O’Brien • Uncanny 18 |
| “Black Star” • Adam Bolivar • The Lay of Old Hex (Hippocampus Press) |
| “Circe’s Guests” • Amelia Gorman • Liminality 12 |
| “Cosmovore Searches the Animal Shelter” • Kristi Carter • Cosmovore (Aqueduct Press) |
| “Dark Solstice Cold and Deathly” • Richard L. Tierney • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “The Dead Boy Teaches Me About Godzilla” • Lana Hechtman Ayers • Escape into Life |
| “Dead Bride Philosophy” • Sara Tantlinger • Space & Time 128 |
| “The Dead Languages of the Wind” • David Clink • Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty eds. Spider Robinson & James Alan Gardner (Edge, 2017) |
| “Dear Shotgun City” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Eye to the Telescope 25 |
| “The Devil in Boston” • A. J. Odasso • Barking Sycamores 12 |
| “early years of transdimensional travel” • John Reinhart • New Myths 38 |
| “Egress” • Marge Simon • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “The Empty House” • A. J. Locke • Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) |
| “End-Times Tables” • Margarita Tenser • Star*Line 40.1 |
| “Endeavour” • G. O. Clark • Asimov’s SF, May/June |
| “Enthusiasts of Ruin” • Margaret Wack • Liminality 14 |
| “first date” • David F. Shultz • The Literary Hatchet 18 |
| “Flowers for Asimov” • William Shaw • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Giger’s Children” • Saba Syed Razvi • Machine Dreams 1 |
| “Goodnight” • David F. Shultz • Polar Borealis Magazine 4 |
| “Gramarye” • F. J. Bergmann • Polu Texni 12/26/17 |
| “Grand Guignol” • G. O. Clark • Longshot Island 12/19/17 |
| “Guttersnipe” • WC Roberts • Chrome Baby 63 |
| “How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches” • Sara Cleto • Mythic Delirium, May |
| “Hubble’s Constant” • Marian D. Moore • Asimov’s SF, January/February |
| “In the Business of Things That Don’t Earn You Much” • Ziad Gadou • Strange Horizons, Arab League community and diaspora special issue |
| “late to work” • Julie Bloss Kelsey • Jersey Devil Press 91 |
| “The Lovers and the Labyrinth” • Sara Cleto • Faerie Magazine 41 |
| “Lycium Barbarum” • PS Cottier • Umbel & Panicle 5 |
| “March Madness” • Francis W. Alexander • Night to Dawn, April |
| “Medusa in Her Mirror” • Hillary Lyon • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| “Messiaen Among The Dinosaurs” • Tim Jones • takah? 89 |
| “Midwest Wonder Expo” • Amelia Gorman • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “The Mushroom Siren” K. A. Opperman • The Audient Void 4 |
| “The Mutant Rat” • K. V. Volney • krystalvolneyfanclub.blogspot.com |
| “My Little Green Secret” • Clay F. Johnson • Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase 4 |
| “My Response to Your Mayday Call” • David Clink & Herb Kauderer • Dreams and Nightmares 105 |
| “A Net to Snare a Unicorn” • Beth Cato • Mythic Delirium, January |
| “O Terrible Bird” • Sandra Kasturi • Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, ed. Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books) |
| “One More Attempt at Disaster Preparedness” • Jeannine Hall Gailey • American Poetry Journal |
| “Other People’s Tragedies” • Jennifer Crow • Mythic Delirium, August |
| “Pine Song, Robin Song, Star Song” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Liminality 11 |
| “Pleiades”• Jenny Blackford • The Loyalty of Chickens, Pitt Street Poetry |
| “Poisoned Apple” • Ann Thornfield-Long • Abyss & Apex, March |
| “Quantum Socks” • R. Gene Turchin • Eye to the Telescope 25 |
| “Radiant Things” • A. J. Odasso • Noble Dissent (ed. Rebecca Jane Bilkau, Beautiful Dragons Press) |
| “reanimated …” • Susan Burch • Scifaikuest, print |
| “Save Our Souls” • Karen Bovenmyer • Silver Blade 33 |
| “scent of blackened” • Greer Woodward • Star*Line 40.1 |
| “The Scratch inside Your Chest” • Layla Al-Bedawi • Strange Horizons 10/30/17 |
| “Scorpio” • Jo Walton • Patreon 11/23/17 |
| “Sea Legs” • Milo Gallagher • NonBinary Review 14 |
| “Secret Identities” • Davian Aw • Strange Horizons 2/6/17 |
| “Shadowfolk” • John Philip Johnson • Devilfish Review 19 |
| “She traveled back in time” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Outposts of Beyond, April |
| “Small Town Witches” • Kate Pentecost • Liminality 13 |
| “Some Things Never Change” • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 40.1 |
| “Song of a Changeling” • Adele Gardner • Balticon 51: The BSFAN, May |
| “Starlight” • Christina Sng • Space & Time 129 |
| “A Streetcar Named Happily Ever After” • B. J. Lee • Illumen, Autumn |
| “Supper with the Sphinx” • Carolyn Clink • Canadian Ginger (ed. Kim Clark & Dawn Marie Kresan, Oolichan Books, 2017) |
| “Surreal Bucket List #3” • Bruce Boston • Mithila Review 9 |
| “Sycorax’s Daughters Unveiled” • Linda Addison • Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) |
| “Syncing Minefields” • Karen Bovenmyer • Strange Horizons 2/20/17 |
| “Table of Contents from a Lost Book of Divination” • Dean Kostos • Star*Line 40.2 |
| “The Talking River” • John W. Sexton • Star*Line 40.2 |
| “Titan’s Magic Islands: Transient Features in the Hydrocarbon Seas” • Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August |
| “Vaginoplasticine” • Alison Rumfitt • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Vampirette” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Villain L” • Azriel Johnson • The Poet’s Haven Digest: The Distance Between Insanity and Genius |
| “Vul Ravin” • D. L. Myers • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “Wayfaring King” • Beth Cato • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “When the Aliens Come to Tea” • Mary A. Turzillo • The Poet’s Haven Digest: Strange Land |
| “The Witch Woman” • Alexandra Seidel • Polu Texni 7/17/17 |
| “Yellow Spiders” • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality Magazine 4/28/17 |
| Long Poems (63 poems) |
| “Alternate Genders” • Mary Soon Lee • Mithila Review 9 |
| “The Android Who Gave Herself Away” Rohinton Daruwala • Eye to the Telescope 23 |
| “Apocalyptic Mass” • Alessandro Manzetti • No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “Atop the Crystal Moon” • Ashley Dioses • Diary of a Sorceress (Hippocampus Press) |
| “The Ballad of the de la Poers” • Adam Bolivar • Spectral Realms 7 |
| “Castaway” • John C. Mannone • Anak Sastra 28 |
| “Chrysopoeia & Isagoge” • Saba Syed Razvi • Beside the Muezzin’s Call & Beyond the Harem’s Veil (Finishing Line Press) |
| “A Cleaner Times Square” • Vanessa Kittle• Chrome Baby 61 |
| “Commentary Track” • Troy Jollimore • The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5 ed. Daniel Lawless (Plume Editions) |
| “Dab3 (Mount Hermon, 1998)” • Sara Saab • Strange Horizons 10/30/17 |
| “Daunted” • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams and Nightmares 105 |
| “Don’t Forget the Tinderbox” • Jennifer Lynn Krohn • NonBinary Review 14 |
| “A Dream of Milk and Blood” • Alessandro Manzetti • No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “The Drum Star (Orion’s Ghost)” • Ryu Ando • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive Special |
| “The First Battle of the Puffer War” • Herb Kauderer • Outposts of Beyond, July |
| “For Preserves” • Cassandra Rose Clarke • Star*Line 40.4 |
| “Four Moons” • John Philip Johnson • Mithila Review 9 |
| “Frida’s Monsters” • Alessandro Manzetti • No Mercy (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “Ghosts of 1816” • Clay F. Johnson • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “The Hawthorn Muses” • Shannon Connor Winward • Timeless Tales 8 |
| “Hot” • Cislyn Smith • Strange Horizons 5/29/17 |
| “The Huntsman” • Lora Gray • Liminal Stories 4 |
| “In the Labyrinth” • Allan Rozinski • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice |
| “Instructions for Astronauts” • Michael Janairo • Mithila Review 8 |
| “Just Rosie” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Eye to the Telescope 23 |
| “Kindred Spirit” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 106 |
| “Let Me In” • Tonya Liburd • Alligators in the Sewers (Unnerving Magazine chapbook) |
| “Little Red” • Christina Sng • Polu Texni 9/4/17 |
| “Little Red: Morning” • Sally Rosen Kindred • Bramble & Thorn, ed. Nicci Mechler (Porkbelly Press) |
| “Looking Back to the Stars” • Vince Gotera • Altered Reality Magazine, October |
| “Lotus Moon” • Mary Soon Lee • Mythic Delirium 4.2 |
| “Maintenance Call” • Ken Poyner • Abyss & Apex 61 |
| “Masques and Mayhem” • Jennifer Crow • Mythic Delirium, September |
| “Moonlight in the Playground” • Christina Sng • Spectral Realms 6 |
| “The Mushroom Hunters” • Neil Gaiman • Brainpickings 4/26/17 |
| “O Ippos” • Mari Ness • Through Immortal Shadows Singing (Papaveria Press) |
| “On a Dreamland’s Moon” • Ashley Dioses • Black Wings VI (PS Publishing) |
| “Opposition Night” • Christina M. Rau • Liberating the Astronauts (Aqueduct Press) |
| “The Patron Saint of Lost Causes” • Chris Castro-Rappl • Abyss & Apex, September |
| “Pre-Raphaelite Girls” • Delbert R. Gardner & Adele Gardner • Buckshot Magazine, 7/12/17 |
| “Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization” • Cassandra Khaw • Uncanny 19 |
| “Quietly, on the way to Mars” • Bronwyn Lovell • Cordite Poetry Review, September |
| “The Rain that Falls in the Mutant Rain Forest” • Bruce Boston • Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest (Crystal Lake Publications) |
| “Rapunzel and Medusa” • Colleen Anderson • Polu Texni 9/25/17 |
| “The Raven’s Hallowe’en” • Shannon Connor Winward • Wild Musette, 10/26/18 |
| “Romance of Possible Contrasts” • Alison Rumfitt • Strange Horizons, 12/18/17 |
| “The Seal Wife” • Signe Pike• Faerie Magazine 38 |
| “The Secret Life of a Toaster” • Mary Soon Lee • Polu Texni 10/2/17 |
| “Shards of a Fractured Soul” • Deborah L. Davitt • The Poet’s Haven Digest: Strange Land |
| “She Dreams of Tigers, or Remembers” • Jennifer D’Aubergny • The Poet’s Haven Digest: The Distance Between Insanity and Genius |
| “The Simple Poem” • Abhishek Sengupta • Liminality 12 |
| “Signs That the World Might Be Ending” • E. E. King • NonBinary Review 13 |
| “Size 15W Should Do It (after George Orwell” • Tyree Campbell • A Danger to Self and Others (Alban Lake) |
| “Sons of Fire and Clay” • Jesse Parent• The Poet’s Haven Digest: The Distance Between Insanity and Genius |
| “Starskin, Sealskin” • Shveta Thakrar & Sara Cleto • Uncanny 17 |
| “The Story of Shen Dho, A Pirate in the Red Flag Fleet, Who Serves Ching Shih Devotedly for Many Years” • Kendall Evans • Illumen, Autumn |
| “tha may ask thee sen/At the Finish” • Paul Brookes • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice |
| “The Trajectory of Culture” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • Polu Texni 5/15/17 |
| “The Tree Builder” • Christina Loraine • Eye to the Telescope 25 |
| “Waking” • Sara Cleto & Brittany Warman • Liminality 10 |
| “What Neighbors Do” • Herb Kauderer • 49th Parallels, ed. Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran Press) |
| “Whispers & Lies” • Deborah Elizabeth Whaley • Sycorax’s Daughters, eds. Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris (Cedar Grove Publishing) |
| “The Woman in the Feathered Mask” • K. A. Opperman • Skelos 3 |
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