Rhysling Award Archive

The Rhysling Awards have been awarded since 1978.

This page contains information on the first place winner in each category (or winners, if there was a tie for first place).

To see additional winners, as well as other information about each year's Rhysling award, including anthology covers and editors and poet biographies for some years, click the "View all [year] winners" link in the table's last column.

To purchase past Rhysling anthologies, see the [Rhysling anthologies purchases] page

Winners by Year

YearShort Category WinnerLong Category WinnerAll Winners
2024Geoffrey A. Landish, "No One Now Remembers"Lauren Scharhag, "Little Brown Changeling"View all 2024 winners
2023Jennifer Crow, "Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon"Colleen Anderson, "Machine (r)Evolution"View all 2023 winners
2022Mary Soon Lee, “Confessions of a Spaceport AI”Beth Cato, “The Bookstore”View all 2022 winners
2021Linda D. Addison, “Summer Timelessness”Jenny Blackford, “Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London”View all 2021 winners
2020Jessica J. Horowitz, “Taking, Keeping”Rebecca Buchanan, “Heliobacterium daphnephilum”View all 2020 winners
2019Beth Cato, “After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls”Sarah Tolmie, “Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld”View all 2019 winners
2018Mary Soon Lee, “Advice to a Six-Year-Old”View all 2018 winners
2017Marge Simon, “George Tecumseh Sherman’s Ghosts”Theodora Goss, “Rose Child”View all 2017 winners
2016Ruth Berman, “Time Travel Vocabulary Problems”(tie) Krysada Panusith Phounsiri, “It Begins With A Haunting”; (tie) Ann K. Schwader, “Keziah”View all 2016 winners
2015Marge Simon, “Shutdown”F.J. Bergmann, “100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien”View all 2015 winners
2014Amal El-Mohtar, “Turning the Leaves”Mary Soon Lee, “Interregnum”View all 2014 winners
2013Terry Garey, "The Cat Star"Andrew Robert Sutton, “Into Flight”View all 2013 winners
2012Shira Lipkin, "The Library, After"Megan Arkenberg, "The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages"View all 2012 winners
2011Amal El-Mohtar, "Peach-Creamed Honey"C. S. E. Cooney, "The Sea King’s Second Bride"View all 2011 winners
2010Ann K. Schwader, "To Theia"Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, "In the Astronaut Asylum"View all 2010 winners
2009Amal El-Mohtar, "Song for an Ancient City"Geoffrey A. Landis, "Search"View all 2009 winners
2008F.J. Bergmann, "Eating Light"Catherynne M. Valente, "The Seven Devils of Central California"View all 2008 winners
2007Rich Ristow, "The Graven Idol's Godheart"Mike Allen, "The Journey to Kailash"View all 2007 winners
2006Mike Allen, "The Strip Search"Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel, "The Tin Men"View all 2006 winners
2005Greg Beatty, "No Ruined Lunar City"Tim Pratt, "Soul Searching"View all 2005 winners
2004Roger Dutcher, "Just Distance"Theodora Goss, "Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks"View all 2004 winners
2003Ruth Berman, "Potherb Gardening"(tie) Charles Saplak and Mike Allen, "Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy"; (tie) Sonya Taaffe, "Matlacihuatl's Gift"View all 2003 winners
2002William John Watkins, "We Die as Angels"Lawrence Schimel, "How to Make a Human"View all 2002 winners
2001Bruce Boston, "My Wife Returns as She Would Have It"Joe Haldeman, "January Fires"View all 2001 winners
2000Rebecca Marjesdatter, "Grimoire"Geoffrey A. Landis, "Christmas (after we all get time machines)"View all 2000 winners
1999Laurel Winter, "egg horror poem"Bruce Boston, "Confessions of a Body Thief"View all 1999 winners
1998John Grey, "Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother"Laurel Winter, "why goldfish shouldn't use power tools"View all 1998 winners
1997W. Gregory Stewart, "Day Omega"Terry A. Garey, "Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes"View all 1997 winners
1996Bruce Boston, "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation"Margaret B. Simon, "Variants of the Obsolete"View all 1996 winners
1995Dan Raphael, "Skin of Glass"David Lunde, "Pilot, Pilot"View all 1995 winners
1994(tie) Bruce Boston, "Spacer's Compass"; (tie) Jeff VanderMeer, "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over"W. Gregory Stewart and Robert Frazier, "Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale"View all 1994 winners
1993Jane Yolen, "Will"William J. Daciuk, "To Be from Earth"View all 1993 winners
1992David Lunde, "Song of the Martian Cricket"W. Gregory Stewart, "the button and what you know"View all 1992 winners
1991Joe Haldeman, "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh"David Memmott, "The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire"View all 1991 winners
1990G. Sutton Breiding, "Epitaph for Dreams"Patrick McKinnon, "dear spacemen"View all 1990 winners
1989Robert Frazier, "Salinity"(tie) Bruce Boston, "In the Darkened Hours"; (tie) John M. Ford, "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station"View all 1989 winners
1988(tie) Bruce Boston, "The Nightmare Collector"; (tie) Suzette Haden Elgin, "Rocky Road to Hoe"Lucius Shepard, "White Trains"View all 1988 winners
1987(tie) Jonathan V. Post, "Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope"; (tie) John Calvin Rezmerski, "A Dream of Heredity"W. Gregory Stewart, "Daedalus"View all 1987 winners
1986Susan Palwick, "The Neighbor's Wife"Andrew Joron, "Shipwrecked on Destiny Five"View all 1986 winners
1985Bruce Boston, "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets"Siv Cedering, "A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)"View all 1985 winners
1984Helen Ehrlich, "Two Sonnets"Joe Haldeman, "Saul's Death: Two Sestinas"View all 1984 winners
1983Alan P. Lightman, "In Computers"Adam Cornford, "Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide"View all 1983 winners
1982Raymond DiZazzo, "On the Speed of Sight"Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Well of Baln"View all 1982 winners
1981Ken Duffin, "Meeting Place"Thomas M. Disch, "On Science Fiction"View all 1981 winners
1980(tie) Robert Frazier, "Encased in the Amber of Eternity"; (tie) Peter Payack, "The Migration of Darkness"Andrew Joron, "The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes"View all 1980 winners
1979(tie) Duane Ackerson, "Fatalities"; (tie) Steve Eng, "Storybooks and Treasure Maps"Michael Bishop, "For the Lady of a Physicist"View all 1979 winners
1978(tie) Duane Ackerson, "The Starman"; (tie) Andrew Joron, "Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night"; (tie) Sonya Dorman, "Corruption of Metals"Gene Wolfe, "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps"View all 1978 winners

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