2015 Elgin Award Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the winners of the 2015 Elgin Award.

Named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, the awards are presented in two categories, Chapbook and Book. To be considered, chapbooks must contain 10-39 pages of poetry and books must contain 40 or more pages of poetry. The books must have been published in 2013 or 2014.

Full-length Books

Winner

  • Sweet Poison • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014)

Second Place

Third Place

Chapbooks

Winner

Second Place

  • Seti Hits Paydirt • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Popcorn Press, 2014)

Third Place

  • If the World Were to Stop Spinning • David Clink (Piquant Press, 2014)

Science Fiction Poetry Association Elevates Two Grand Masters

The Science Fiction Poetry Association has selected its first Grand Masters in five years – Marge Simon and Steve Sneyd.

A SFPA Grand Master must be a living person “whose body of work reflects the highest artistic goals of the SFPA, who shall have been actively publishing within the target genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a period of no fewer than 20 years, and whose poetry has been noted to be exceptional in merit, scope, vision and innovation.”

SFPA’s first four Grand Masters were Jane Yolen (2010), Ray Bradbury (2008), Robert Frazier (2005) and Bruce Boston (1999).

The citation for the two new Grand Masters reads as follows —

Marge Ballif Simon freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Flash Me Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, The Pedestal Magazine, and Vestal Review. Marge is a former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. She edits the column “Blood and Spades: Poets of the Dark Side” for the monthly newsletter of the Horror Writers Association Marge has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, the Dwarf Stars Award, and the Strange Horizons Readers Award for her poetry. She has also illustrated five Bram Stoker Award collections. In addition to her solo work, Marge has published collaboratively with many other authors. margesimon.com

Steve Sneyd may be unfamiliar to many; he lives completely off the grid in Yorkshire, England, with no internet presence. His output of poetry has slowed in recent years. Notwithstanding, he should be better known as an important speculative poet and stalwart proponent, chronicler and historian of SF poetry. Steve has been publishing SF poetry since the late 1970s (at least). His poetry has been nominated multiple times for Rhysling Awards, beginning in 1992. His poetry has appeared in Star*Line and Dreams & Nightmares as recently as 2011), The Magazine of Speculative Poetry and Hadrosaur Tales, as well as many SF and poetry journals, fanzines, and small-press anthologies. His collections include Gestaltmacher, Gestaltmacher, Make Me a Gestalt: Ninety-Nine Poems from the Nineties (The Four Quarters, 2000) and Mistaking the Nature of the Posthuman (Hilltop Press, 2008). His handwritten (!) SF poetry newsletter, DataDump, in print since 1992, recently celebrated its 200th issue. In it are reviews, news and historical studies of SF poetry. He gives the annual DataDump Award for best SF poem in a British publication. Sneyd has published SF poetry from U.S. and British fanzines and small press, grouped by era (starting with the 1750s!), as well as themed anthologies. He has written countless essays and forewords, most recently an overview of SF poetry, “Wormholeing into Elsewhere,” in Where Rockets Burn Through, ed. Russell Jones (See the review on Amazing Stories for a brief example of his poetry). The ISFDB site and the SF Encyclopedia have (albeit incomplete) lists of his published poetry as well as more biographical information. An interview with Steve Sneyd on AmazingStoriesMag.com includes links to his poetry online.

[Via Ansible.]

 

2015 Rhysling Awards

The winners of the 2015 Rhysling Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. The recipients were selected by a vote of 68 SFPA members.

Short Poem Category

First Place

  • “Shutdown” by Marge Simon in Qualia Nous, ed. Michael Bailey (Written Backwards, 2014)

Second Place

  • “Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”)” by Ruth Berman in Dreams and Nightmares 98

Third Place (4-way tie)

  • “I Imagine My Mother’s Death” by Bryan D. Dietrich in The Pedestal Magazine 74
  • “The Peal Divers” by Francesca Forrest in Strange Horizons, 3/17/14
  • “Extinction” by Joshua Gage in Star*Line 37.3
  • “After the Changeling Incantation” by John Philip Johnson in Strange Horizons, 2/3/14

Long Poem Category

First Place

  • “100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien” by F.J. Bergmann in 2014 SFPA Poetry Contest

Second Place

  • “Six Things the Owl Said” by Megan Arkenberg in Goblin Fruit, Spring

Third Place

  • “The Perfect Library” by David Clink in If the World Were to Stop Spinning (Piquant Press)

2015 Rhysling Award Candidates

The candidates for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2015 Rhysling Award have been announced.

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.

The award candidates are poems published in 2014.

Short Poems (59 poems)
“Worlds Apart” • Mary Alexandra Agner • Polu Texni, March
“Main Sequence” • Saira Ali • Mythic Delirium, July
“The Delusion of Trees” • David Barber • Eye to the Telescope 14
“Pauli Neutrino Telescope, Antarctica, July 14, 2033” • David Barber • Star*Line 37.2
“Lost” • F.J. Bergmann • Eye to the Telescope 14
“Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”)” • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 98
“Maybe Waldo Had Syphilis” • Matt Betts • Tigershark 5
“The Cuckoo’s Bride” • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 97
“Septuagenarian Flashback” • Bruce Boston • Silver Blade 24
“There Are Signs of Faerie Everywhere” • G. Sutton Breiding • facebook.com/gsuttonbreiding 7/5/14
“Stalking a Wizard” • Michael Canfield • The Pedestal Magazine 74
“Dragon to Centauri” • Beth Cato • Space & Time Magazine 121
“A Work in Progress” • G.O. Clark • Asimov’s Science Fiction, June
“Short Forms” • David Clink • Asimov’s Science Fiction, September
“After hours at the op shop” • P.S. Cottier • Eureka Street 24:10
“Keziah (Nahab) Mason” • Cardinal Cox • Codex Lilith (pamphlet)
“Neuroanatomy Practical” • Tim Craven • Moon City Review 2014
“I Imagine My Mother’s Death” • Bryan D. Dietrich • The Pedestal Magazine 74
“Stephen Hawking” • Bryan D. Dietrich • The Cresset LXXIX:2
“Beware of the Dog” • James S. Dorr • Grievous Angel, 9/11/14
“A Universe” • Timons Esaias • Polu Texni, May
“The Peal Divers” • Francesca Forrest • Strange Horizons, 3/17/14
“Extinction” • Joshua Gage • Star*Line 37.3
“Elephants in the Alley” • Terry A. Garey • Cascadia Subduction Zone 3:3
“It’s a Universal Picture” • Gwynne Garfinkle • Mythic Delirium 1.1
“Field Notes” • Lola Haskins • Analog, November
“Before You Were a Vampire” • irving • Star*Line 37.3
“After the Changeling Incantation” • John Philip Johnson • Strange Horizons, 2/3/14
“After ‘Dark Matter’” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image)
“After ‘Signs You’re in Trouble’” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image)
“Heere ther be Gods” • David Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 37.4
“Attic Dust” •  Sandi Leibowitz • Silver Blade 21
“Dualities” • Rose Lemberg • Mythic Delirium, October
“Landwork” • Rose Lemberg • Goblin Fruit, Spring
“Cinderella’s Breast” • Sandra Lindow • Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas 2
“daydreaming” • Lauren McBride • Star*Line 37.3
“Common Language” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • 2014 SFPA Poetry Contest
“The Time of Last Scattering” • Lynette Mejía • Star*Line 37.1
“Marvel Word Problems” • P. Andrew Miller • Drawn to Marvel, eds. Marta Ferguson & Bryan Dietrich (Minor Arcana Press)
“Odyssey” • Kim L. Neidigh • Outposts of Beyond, July
“Queen of Cups” • Adrienne J. Odasso • inkscrawl 7
“Morning Sickness” • Aimee Ogden • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov
“At the Dark Matter Zoo” • Simon Petrie • The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry, eds. P.S. Cottier & Tim Jones (Interactive Press)
“The Devil Riding Your Back” • Gabby Reed • Liminality 1
“Dark Energized” • Ann K. Schwader • Star*Line 37.3
“Leap” • Grace Seybold • Star*Line 37.1
“Shutdown” • Marge Simon • Qualia Nous, ed. Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
“The Rat Queen” • Noel Sloboda • Pembroke Magazine 46
“Revelation” •  Robin Spriggs • The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom (Anomalous Books)
“Intimate Universes” • Jason Sturner • Tales of the Talisman 10:1
“A Bulgakov Headache” • Sonya Taaffe • Stone Telling 10
“You Are Here” • Bogi Takács • Strange Horizons, 11/24/14
“Sonnet 65,000,000 BC” • Mary Turzillo • Star*Line 37.1
“Dark Matter Dark Mind” • Peter C. Venable • Parody 3:1
“The Old Time Traveler’s Song” • William John Watkins • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan
“Cthulhu partners” • Greer Woodward • Halloween Haiku II, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press)
“Dare I Keep the Body” • Stephanie Wytovich • Mourning Jewelry (Raw Dog Screaming)
“Eventually, You Become Immune” • Stephanie Wytovich • Jamais Vu 1
“Remembering Jean-Paul Sartre” • Jeffrey Zable • Chrome Baby, Bairn 27
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Long Poems (40 poems)
“Nothing Writes to Disk” • Kythryne Aisling • Stone Telling 11
“Dearly Beloved” • Mike Allen • Postscripts to Darkness 5
“Six Things the Owl Said” • Megan Arkenberg • Goblin Fruit, Spring
“100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien” • F.J. Bergmann • 2014 SFPA Poetry Contest
“Sea Monster Objects to Term ‘Kaiju’” • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 99
“Death of the Crossing Guard” • Bruce Boston •  Jamais Vu 1
“Una Canción de Keys” • Lisa Bradley • Strange Horizons, 2/24/14
“Rule 44” • Robert Payne Cabeen • Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics)
“The Perfect Library” • David Clink • If the World Were to Stop Spinning (Piquant Press)
“And I’ll Dance With You Yet, My Darling” • C.S.E. Cooney • Stone Telling 10
“Drawn to Marvel” • Bryan D. Dietrich • Drawn to Marvel, eds. Marta Ferguson & Bryan Dietrich (Minor Arcana Press)
“Spelling ‘For Worse’” • Peg Duthie • Goblin Fruit, Winter
“Star Song” • Kendall Evans • Analog, July/August
“House of Jaguar” • Serena Fusek • Star*Line 37.4
“Row Your Boat Ashore” • Adele Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry E-zine 2:2
“Hollow Beats the Night” • Delbert R. Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry E-zine 2:1
“The Alchemy” • Neile Graham • Goblin Fruit, Winter
“Roman Shade” • April Grant • Strange Horizons, 1/27/14
“Mining Planet” • John Grey • Chrome Baby, Bairn 19
“Saline to Atlantis” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image)
“Words Not Red” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image)
“Said Rapunzel to the Wolf” • Sally Rosen Kindred • Goblin Fruit, Winter
“Encounter While Waiting for Transport” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & W. Gregory Stewart • New Myths 26
“Numbers” • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 37.2
“The Matter of the Horses” • Mary Soon Lee • Ideomancer 13:4
“The Virgin and the Unicorn” • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 37.1
“Braiding” • Sandi Leibowitz • Niteblade, March
“The Santa Claus Triptych” • Sandra J. Lindow • Star*Line 37.1
“Butterfly Effect” • John C. Mannone • Tupelo Press 30/30 project
“The Man Who Saw the World” • Alessandro Manzetti • Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria)
“A Summoning of Monsters” • Jack Hollis Marr • Liminality 1
“Concerning the Curious Burial Customs of the Witches of Megaira” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Interfictions 4
“Demands” • Mari Ness • Goblin Fruit, Fall
“The Memory-Thief” • Adrienne J. Odasso & Dominik Parisien • Ideomancer 13:2
“Ode to Yon Glizan Orbs, or No?” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Tales of the Talisman 9:4
“The Swooning” • Mark Rich • The Cascadia Subduction Zone 4:4
“Principles of Entropy” • Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg • Abyss & Apex, January
“Eolian Conscientia” • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo • Sweet Poison (Dark Renaissance Press)
“Let the Fire Decide” • Sarah Wright • Tales of the Talisman 9:3
“Conservation of Energy” • Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • Apex Magazine, August

2014 Rhysling Awards

The winners of the 2014 Rhysling Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. The recipients were selected by a vote of 57 SFPA members.

Short Poem Category

First Place

“Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine, December 2013)

Second Place

“Rivers” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s Science Fiction,  June 2013)

Third Place

“Music of the Stars” by Bruce Boston (2013 Balticon Program Book)

Long Poem Category

First Place

“Interregnum” by Mary Soon Lee (Star*Line 36.4)

Second Place

“Hungry Constellations” by Mike Allen (Goblin Fruit Fall 2013)

Third Place

“I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz” by Rose Lemberg (Goblin Fruit, Summer 2013)

Amal El-Mohtar is the first woman to win the Rhysling Award three times. Her winning poem “Turning the Leaves” can be read online here. El-Mohtar says she wrote it for Lynne M. Thomas on the eve of her leaving Apex Magazine.

Mary Soon Lee’s “Interregnum” can be read online here, together with other poems from the cycle of which it is part.  Or you can listen to her recite it in this video:

2014 Elgin Award Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2014 Elgin Award winners have been announced.

Named for SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin, the awards are presented in two categories, Chapbook and Book. Eligible chapbooks contain 10-39 pages of poetry, while books must contain 40 or more pages of poetry.

Elgin Book Award

Winner: Demonstra by Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013)

Second Place: Unexplained Fevers by Jeannine Hall Gailey (New Binary Press, 2013)

Third Place: Dark Roads by Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013)

Elgin Chapbook Award

Winner: The Sex Lives of Monsters by Helen Marshall (Kelp Queen Press, 2013)

Second Place: The Edible Zoo by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Sam’s Dot Publishing)

Third Place: Inhuman: Haiku From The Zombie Apocalypse by Joshua Gage (The Poet’s Haven, 2013)

SFPA Announces 2014 Dwarf Stars Award

ds14The annual Dwarf Stars award, voted on by members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, recognizes the best speculative poem of 1–10 lines published in the previous year. The award is designed to honor excellent scifaiku, tanka, cinquains, and other types of short poems that tend to be overshadowed in Rhysling Award competition.

The 2014 honorees are:

Winner: “And Deeper than Did Ever Plummet Sound” by Matt Joiner

Second Place: “The Loss” by Mari Ness

Third Place: “Hourglass” by David Livingstone Clink

Poems eligible for the award are collected in the 2014 Dwarf Stars Anthology edited by Sandra J. Lindow, available from SFPA.

May 15 Deadline for SF Poetry Award Entries

Submissions for the Dwarf Stars anthology, from which the best short speculative poem of 2013 will be selected, opened April 1. Anyone may submit poems of their own or by others — though only Science Fiction Poetry Association members may vote for the award.

The Dwarf Stars anthology is open to all genres of speculative poetry, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and “unclassifiable, but speculative.” Poems must be no more than ten lines (or no more than 100 words for prose poems) not including title or stanza breaks, and first published in 2013. Submission deadline is May 15. The anthology will be issued in July. The voting deadline will be August 15, 2014.

SFPA is also taking nominations from members for the Elgin Awards. Named for founder Suzette Haden Elgin, the awards are given for Chapbook and Book. A cumulative list of nominated books is posted on the SFPA website. The deadline to nominate is May 15; the voting deadline is August 15.

2014 Rhysling Award Nominees

The candidates for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2014 Rhysling Award have been announced.

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.

The award candidates are poems published in 2013.

Short Poems

  • “The Captain Speaks” by Leslie J. Anderson • Star*Line 36.1
  • “Marketing Strategy” by F.J. Bergmann • Tales of the Talisman 9.3
  • “Nephology” by F.J. Bergmann • James Gunn’s Ad Astra 2
  • “What She Dreams Of” by F.J. Bergmann • ChiZine March 2013
  • “How Many” by Ruth Berman • Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2013
  • “Liar, Liar” by Robert Borski • Dreams & Nightmares 94
  • “Music of the Stars” by Bruce Boston • 2013 Balticon Program Book
  • “View from the Oort Cloud” by Shelly Bryant • Illumen Spring 2013
  • “Singing the Plains” by Rachael Bundock • Goblin Fruit Summer 2013
  • “The Narrow Hours” by Gwendolyn Clare • Bull Spec 8
  • “Climbing Up the Sky” by G.O. Clark • Tales of the Talisman 9.1
  • (untitled) by Carolyn Clink • GUSTS: Contemporary Tanka 18, Fall/Winter 2013
  • “A City of Buried Rivers” by David Clink • Literary Review of Canada 21.9
  • “Why I Sold My Soul to the Storyteller” by Jennifer Crow • The First Bite of the Apple (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013)
  • “Triptych” by Jane Crowley • Strange Horizons 9/9/13
  • “The Specialist” by James S. Dorr • Disturbed Digest June 2013
  • “The Bed I Haven’t Made Yet” by Peg Duthie • Star*Line 36.2
  • ‘imagining’ by Joshua Gage • Inhuman: Haiku from the Zombie Apocalypse (The Poet’s Haven, 2013)
  • “Wheels” by Adele Gardner • Mythic Delirium 28
  • “A Virtuous Woman” by Nancy Hightower • Prick of the Spindle 7.3, September 2013
  • “After the Moon” by Russell Jones • Spaces of Their Own (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2013)
  • “Sleeping Beauty Makes Dinner” by Sally Rosen Kindred • Goblin Fruit Winter 2013
  • “Pinocchio in the Toothpick Factory” by Andrew Kozma • Star*Line 36.2
  • “Rivers” by Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2013
  • “The Waiting” by Dennis M. Lane • The Ghazal Page November 2013
  • “Don’t Call Me a Fairy” by B.J. Lee • Spellbound Spring 2013
  • “Timeline Tapestry” by Sandra Lindow • Wisconsin Harvest II
  • “Topic of Cancer” by Sandra Lindow • 2014 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar
  • “Leaving Papa” by Darrell Lindsey • Kaleidotrope Summer 2013
  • “Bluebeard’s Wife” by Helen Marshall • The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press, 2013)
  • “Irène Joliot-Curie” by Mary McMyne • Painted Bride Quarterly 86, February 2013
  • “Ivy” by Adrienne J. Odasso • Not One of Us 50
  • “Rigel” by Adrienne J. Odasso • Dark Mountain Book 4
  • “While on the vacation shuttle” by Terrie Leigh Relf • Star*Line 36.4
  • “Rhythm of Hoof and Cry” by S. Brackett Robertson • Mythic Delirium 0.1
  • “The Bone Cutter’s Lament” by James Frederick William Rowe • Songs of Eretz 1.2
  • “Apache Chief” by Sofia Samatar • Flying Higher, eds. Shira Lipkin & Michael D. Thomas
  • “Orbit” by Diane Severson • The Mystic Nebula, July 12, 2013
  • “Alien Interrogation” by Marge Simon • Silver Blade 17
  • “From the Soil” by Anna Sykora • Chrome Baby, April 18, 2013
  • “Faerystruck Down” by Jason Sturner • Tales of the Talisman Volume IX, Issue 1
  • “Blackmare” by Natalia Theodoridou • Ideomancer, December 1, 2013
  • “Indefensible Disclosures” by William John Watkins • Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2013
  • “My Translation Wouldn’t Be the Same as Yours” by Lesley Wheeler • Avatar Review 15
  • “Even Cowgirls Spread the News” by Laurel Winter • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Fall 2013
  • “Black Bird” by Stephanie M. Wytovich • Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013)
  • “Re-Obsolete” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • Star*Line 36.4

Long Poems

  • “Hungry Constellations” by Mike Allen • Goblin Fruit Fall 2013
  • “Ponies and Rocketships” by Leslie Anderson • Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2013
  • “Songs at a Crossroad” by Megan Arkenberg • Ideomancer 12.1
  • “Hungry as Living Sorrow” by Jenny Blackford • 2013 SFPA Poetry Contest
  • “The Last Dream” by Leigh Blackmore • Weird Fiction Review 4
  • “Living on the Leys” by Bruce Boston • Bête Noire 12
  • “Image from a postcard sketched between city and dragon” by Liz Bourke • Goblin Fruit Fall 2013
  • “Interim Problem Report 119V-0080” by Jennifer Clark • Paper Crow 3.1
  • “Into the Deep” by Kendall Evans • James Gunn’s Ad Astra 2
  • “The Girl Who Tipped Through Time” by Robert Frazier • 2013 SFPA Poetry Contest
  • “Diana’s Justice” by Adele Gardner • Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 16
  • “Riveted” by Lisa Bradley • Flying Higher, eds. Shira Lipkin & Michael D. Thomas
  • “Your Clone & You” by Robert Frazier • Dreams & Nightmares 94
  • “The Siren of Mayberry Crescent” by Ada Hoffman • Mythic Delirium 29
  • “Gingerbread House: The Apron’s Lot” by Sally Rosen Kindred • Jabberwock Review Winter 2013
  • “Backwater” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Magazine of Speculative Poetry Fall 2013
  • “Across the Dark, the Pioneers” by Geoffrey A. Landis • Starship Century (Microwave Sciences, 2013)
  • “Interregnum” by Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 36.4
  • “I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz” by Rose Lemberg • Goblin Fruit Summer 201
  • “The Collected Postcards of Billy the Kid” by Helen Marshall • Postscripts to Darkness 4
  • “Special Delivery from the Unnamed Quadrant” by Jason Matthews • Star*Line 36.2
  • “Heaven and Earth” by Adrienne J. Odasso • Niteblade December 2013
  • “Sand Bags” by Dominik Parisien • Strange Horizons 11/18/13
  • “Ophelia” by Qyn • Strange Horizons 20 May 13
  • “Mary Shelley’s Notebook” by Marge Simon • Songs of Eretz December 2013
  • “Allegra” by Christina Sng • Tales of the Talisman 8.3
  • “Five Flavors” by Bryan Thao Worra • Expanded Horizons December 2013
  • “The Robo Sutra” by Bryan Thao Worra • Expanded Horizons July 2013
  • “Crazy” by Stephanie M. Wytovich • Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013)

2013 Rhysling Awards

The winners of the 2013 Rhysling Awards were announced by the Science Fiction Poetry Association at LoneStarCon 3.

Short Poem Category

First Place
“The Cat Star” by Terry Garey
Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press)

Second Place
“Futurity’s Shoelaces” by Marge Simon
Balticon 2012 Program Book

Third Place
“Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels” by Megan Arkenberg
Strange Horizons 8/7/12

Long Poem Category

First Place
“Into Flight” by Andrew Robert Sutton
Silver Blade 14

Second Place
“String Theory” by John Philip Johnson
Ad Astra 1

Third Place—Tie
“The Necromantic Wine” by Wade German
Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P’rea Press)

“The Time Traveler’s Weekend” by Adele Gardner
Liquid Imagination 15

[Based on a true story by SF Site News.]