{"id":5575,"date":"2020-05-02T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specpo.wordpress.com\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2020-05-02T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T17:05:14","slug":"2020-rhysling-nominees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/2020\/05\/02\/2020-rhysling-nominees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Rhysling Nominees Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2020 Rhysling Award nominees have been announced<\/a>. Our thanks at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association go to the 84 members from around the world who nominated poems. A total of 95 poets were nominated from work appearing in 67 publications. This year’s chair was SFPA Grand Master David C. Kopaska-Merkel<\/a>. This year’s cover is Another Day at the Beach <\/em>by Hal Tenny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Members in good standing with the SFPA will now consider the nominated poems and submit their votes from around the world by June, 15th, 2020. The winners in each category will be announced in July, 2020.<\/p>\n

The Science Fiction Poetry Association offers annual awards for speculative poetry:\u00a0The Rhysling<\/a>\u00a0Awards recognize individual poems.\u00a0The Dwarf Star<\/a>\u00a0Awards are given for short-short poems, while\u00a0the Elgin<\/a>\u00a0Awards are presented for genre poetry books and chapbooks.<\/p>\n

Each year, the SFPA publishes the Rhysling Anthology, comprised of works\u00a0nominated by its international membership<\/a>\u00a0for the Best Poems of the\u00a0Year. The Rhyslings were first established in 1978, named for the blind poet Rhysling in Robert A. Heinlein\u2019s short story \u201cThe Green Hills of Earth<\/a>.\u201d Rhysling\u2019s skills were said to rival Rudyard Kipling\u2019s. The Apollo 15 astronauts named a crater near their landing site \u201cRhysling,\u201d which has since become its official name.<\/p>\n

Winning works are regularly reprinted in the Nebula Awards Anthology<\/a>\u00a0from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Rhysling Awards are considered in the speculative literature field to be the poetry equivalent of the awards given for prose\u2014 achievement awards given to poets by the writing peers of their own field of literature.<\/p>\n

\"2020\"<\/p>\n

Short Poems (77 poems)<\/strong>
\n\u201cAbeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, Pilots the Interstellar Ark\u201d \u2022 Nisa Malli \u2022 Apparition Lit 7
\n\u201cAliens declutter\u201d \u2022 PS Cottier \u2022 Scifaikuest, August
\n\u201cAll-Father\u201d \u2022 Vince Gotera \u2022 Dreams and Nightmares 111
\n\u201cAlternate Galatea\u201d \u2022 Amelia Gorman \u2022 Liminality 21
\n\u201cArea 51 Custodian Gets Coffee\u201d \u2022 Juleigh Howard-Hobson \u2022 Star*Line 42.4
\n\u201cBlood Moon\u201d \u2022 Sara Backer \u2022 Polu Texni, November 24
\n\u201cThe Book of Fly\u201d \u2022 John Philip Johnson \u2022 Rattle 63
\n\u201cThe Certainty of Seeing\u201d \u2022 Michelle Muenzler \u2022 Polu Texni, 3 June
\n\u201cCollie Dogs In Space\u201d \u2022 Debby Feo \u2022 A Poet Explores The Stars, ed. J. Alan Erwine (Nomadic Delirium Press)
\n\u201cContinuum\u201d \u2022 G. O. Clark \u2022 Analog, September\/October
\n\u201cCreation: Dark Matter Dating App\u201d \u2022 Sandra J. Lindow \u2022 Asimov’s SF, July\/August
\n\u201cCrimson Faces\u201d \u2022 Maxwell I. Gold \u2022 Space & Time Magazine 135
\n\u201cThe Day the Animals Turned to Sand\u201d \u2022 Tyler Hagemann \u2022 Amazing Stories, Spring
\n\u201cDisassembly at Auction\u201d \u2022 Robin Wyatt Dunn \u2022 Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 30:4
\n\u201cDon\u2019t Open the Box!\u201d \u2022 Kyla Lee Ward \u2022 The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities (P’rea Press)
\n\u201cdrag strip drag\u201d \u2022 Francine P. Lewis \u2022 Eye to the Telescope 32
\n\u201cEldritch Horror\u201d \u2022 Katie Manning \u2022 Bowery Gothic I
\n\u201cEncore\u201d \u2022 Tim Jones \u2022 Big Hair Was Everywhere (ESAW)
\n\u201cFallen But Not Down\u201d \u2022 Sarah Cannavo \u2022 Liminality 20
\n\u201cFallen Star\u201d \u2022 Clay F. Johnson \u2022 Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
\nFrom \u201cMoon Sonnet\u201d \u2022 Lily Zhou \u2022 Poetry, May
\n\u201cThe Ghosts of Those\u201d \u2022 Ron Riekki \u2022 Star*Line 42.2
\n\u201cThe Girl who Loved Birds\u201d \u2022 Clara Blackwood \u2022 Amazing Stories 3
\n\u201cGoddamn These Minotaurs\u201d \u2022 Persephone Erin Hudson \u2022 paintbucket, November 10
\n\u201chaiku\u201d \u2022 Juan M. Perez \u2022 haikuniverse, June 8
\n\u201cHalsted IV\u201d \u2022 Jeff Crandall \u2022 Fantasy & Science Fiction, September\/October
\n\u201cHow to Care for Your Yesterday’s Camel\u201d \u2022 Christina Olson \u2022 The Last Mastodon (Rattle Foundation)
\n\u201cHow to Colonize Ganymede\u201d \u2022 Mary Soon Lee \u2022 New Myths 48
\n\u201cHow To Dance With Dark Matter\u201d \u2022 Mary Soon Lee \u2022 Uppagus 37
\n\u201cHuitzilopochtli\u201d \u2022 Lorraine Schein \u2022 Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice
\n\u201cIf All the Seas Were Blood\u201d \u2022 D. L. Myers \u2022 Oracles from the Black Pool (Hippocampus Press)
\n\u201cThe Journey\u201d \u2022 Deborah L. Davitt \u2022 Polu Texni, April 1
\n\u201cLady Macbeth\u2019s Green Gown\u201d \u2022 Jacqueline West \u2022 Liminality 19
\n\u201cMary Agnes Chase (1869\u20131963)\u201d \u2022 Jessy Randall \u2022 Strange Horizons, December 9
\n\u201cMary Poppins, 2100\u201d \u2022 Cathy Tenzo \u2022 Typehouse 18
\n\u201cThe Mother Searches for Her Own Story\u201d \u2022 Mary McMyne \u2022 Strange Horizons, November 11
\n\u201cMothsong\u201d \u2022 John Philip Johnson \u2022 Liquid Imagination 42
\n\u201cMy Ghost Will Know The Way\u201d \u2022 Beth Cato \u2022 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July\/August
\n\u201cNew Stars\u201d \u2022 F. J. Bergmann \u2022 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest
\n\u201cThe Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry\u201d \u2022 Kate Pentecost \u2022 Liminality 19
\n\u201cNo Fairy Tale World\u201d \u2022 Lisa Timpf \u2022 New Myths 47
\n\u201cThe Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House\u201d \u2022 Kathleen A. Lawrence \u2022 Star*Line 42.4
\n\u201cObjects of Desire\u201d \u2022 Gerri Leen \u2022 Dreams and Nightmares 113
\n\u201c\u00d3\u00f2j\u00ed \u00cdj\u00e8 [Kola Journey]\u201d \u2022 Uche Ogbuji \u2022 FIYAH Literary Magazine 11
\n\u201cThe Planets? Sweet \u2026\u201d \u2022 Harris Coverley \u2022 Star*Line 42.4
\n\u201cPhobos and Deimos\u201d \u2022 W. C. Roberts \u2022 Chrome Bairn 82
\n\u201cPrayer on a Friday Morning\u201d \u2022 L. R. Harvey \u2022 American Diversity Report, December
\n\u201cA Purring Cat is a Time Machine\u201d \u2022 Beth Cato \u2022 Daikaijuzine 1
\n\u201cRegarding me\u201d \u2022 Michael H. Hanson \u2022 HWA Poetry Showcase VI
\n\u201cReparation\u201d \u2022 Christina Sng \u2022 Spectral Realms 11
\n\u201cRevisiting the origins of language\u201d \u2022 Terrie Leigh Relf \u2022 Space & Time Magazine 133
\n\u201cRobert Goddard at Roswell\u201d \u2022 Alan Ira Gordon \u2022 Star*Line 42.4
\n\u201cThe Root King\u2019s Winter\u201d \u2022 Jessica P. Wick \u2022 Enchanted Living\/Faerie Magazine, Winter
\n\u201cA Rose Waits\u201d \u2022 Adele Gardner \u2022 Dreams and Nightmares 113
\n\u201cThe Ruined Library\u201d \u2022 Bruce Boston \u2022 Asimov’s SF, May\/June
\n\u201cThe Sacrifices\u201d \u2022 Mike Allen \u2022 Sycorax 2
\n\u201cSamsara\u201d \u2022 Jason O\u2019Toole \u2022 The Scrib Arts Journal, Fall
\n\u201cSeven Reasons to Have Hope for a Better Future. Number Five Will Really Get You!\u201d \u2022 Catherine Kyle \u2022 Quail Bell, February
\n\u201cshoals of Miami\u201d \u2022 Greer Woodward \u2022 Troutswirl, December 4
\n\u201cSinging Ghost\u201d \u2022 Catherine Kyle \u2022 Quail Bell, February
\n\u201cThe Snow Globe\u201d \u2022 Marge Simon \u2022 Polu Texni, 8 December
\n\u201cThe Solace of the Farther Moon\u201d \u2022 Allan Rozinski \u2022 Weirdbook Annual 2
\n\u201cSphere\u201d \u2022 Francis W. Alexander \u2022 Scifaikuest XVI:1
\n\u201cSteampunk Christmas\u201d \u2022 David Clink \u2022 Star*Line 42.4
\n\u201cStyx\u201d \u2022 Christina Sng \u2022 Spectral Realms 11
\n\u201cTaking, Keeping\u201d \u2022 Jessica J. Horowitz \u2022 Apparition Lit 5
\n\u201cTen-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild\u201d \u2022 F. J. Bergmann \u2022 Eye to the Telescope 32
\n\u201cThree of Swords, King of Cups\u201d \u2022 Ali Trotta \u2022 Fireside Fiction, July
\n\u201cTo Skeptics\u201d \u2022 Mary Soon Lee \u2022 Fantasy & Science Fiction, July\/August
\n\u201cThe Unseen\u201d \u2022 Fran Wilde \u2022 Fireside Fiction, March
\n\u201cWake Up, Little Stevie\u201d \u2022 Christina Olson \u2022 The Last Mastodon (Rattle Foundation)
\n\u201cWhat You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain\u201d \u2022 Beth Cato \u2022 Star*Line 42.1
\n\u201cwhen my father reprograms my mother {\u201d \u2022 Caroline Mao \u2022 Strange Horizons, Fund Drive
\n\u201cWhere Have the Space Heroes Gone?\u201d \u2022 Darrell Schweitzer \u2022 \u00a0Amazing Stories 77:1
\n\u201cThe Wishing Clock of Gassytown\u201d \u2022 Deborah Wong \u2022 Frozen Wavelets 1
\n\u201cWitch\u201d \u2022 Mary Soon Lee \u2022 Polu Texni, October 21
\n\u201cThe Wolfman and Space Girl\u201d \u2022 Neil Sloboda \u2022 Neon 48<\/p>\n

Long Poems (49 poems)<\/strong>
\n\u201cAfterlife\u201d \u2022 F. J. Bergmann \u2022 Shoreline of Infinity 14
\n\u201cBorrower\u201d \u2022 Cislyn Smith \u2022 Strange Horizons, July 29
\n\u201cBright Record\u201d \u2022 John W. Sexton \u2022 Polu Texni, April 8
\n\u201cCannibal Rex\u201d \u2022 Allan Rozinski \u2022 Anatomy of Hate, ed. Karen Otto (Alban Lake Publishing)
\n\u201cChildhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner\u201d \u2022 Beth Cato \u2022 Uncanny 27
\n\u201cChildren of the Trees\u201d \u2022 Deborah L. Davitt \u2022 Polu Texni, March 11
\n\u201cThe Cinder Girl Burns Brightly\u201d \u2022 Theodora Goss \u2022 Uncanny 28
\n\u201cThe City That Changed Hands\u201d \u2022 Maya Chhabra \u2022 Strange Horizons, December 23
\n\u201cConsumption\u201d \u2022 Emma J. Gibbon \u2022 Eye to the Telescope 33
\n\u201cCrop Circles\u201d \u2022 Lori R. Lopez \u2022 Deep Fried Horror, Mother’s Day Edition
\n\u201cThe Daily Freak Show\u201d \u2022 Bruce Boston \u2022 New Myths 47
\n\u201cDriven\u201d \u2022 Marcie Tentchoff \u2022 Outposts of Beyond VII:1
\n\u201cEight Simulations for the Missing\u201d \u2022 T. D. Walker \u2022 Small Waiting Objects (CW Books)
\n\u201cEnvoy\u201d \u2022 F. J. Bergmann \u2022 Polu Texni, October 28
\n\u201cFor My Daughter Who Will Ask for a Seismograph Implant\u201d \u2022 T. D. Walker \u2022 Small Waiting Objects (CW Books)
\n\u201cFune-RL\u201d \u2022 Emma J. Gibbon \u2022 Strange Horizons, 15 July
\n\u201cGreen Sky\u201d \u2022 Herb Kauderer \u2022 Influence of the Moon, ed. Shannon Yseult (518 Publishing)
\n\u201cHeliobacterium daphnephilum\u201d \u2022 Rebecca Buchanan \u2022 Star*Line 42.3
\n\u201cIf Love is Real, So Are Fairies\u201d \u2022 Cynthia So \u2022 Uncanny 29
\n\u201cIn The End, Only The Gods\u201d \u2022 Christina Sng \u2022 Tales Of The Lost Vol. 1, eds. Eugene Johnson & Steve Dillon (Things in the Well)
\n\u201cInside My Belly\u201d \u2022 Alessandro Manzetti \u2022 The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing)
\n\u201cKeep My Course True\u201d \u2022 Gerri Leen \u2022 Dreams and Nightmares 112
\n\u201cLines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey\u201d \u2022 Clay F. Johnson \u2022 Influence of the Moon, ed. Shannon Yseult (518 Publishing)
\n\u201cThe Macabre Modern\u201d \u2022 Kyla Lee Ward \u2022 The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities (P’rea Press)
\n\u201cMaculation\u201d \u2022 F. J. Bergmann \u2022 Spectral Realms 10
\n\u201cThe making of dragons\u201d \u2022 Herb Kauderer \u2022 Altered Reality Magazine, January 30
\n\u201cThe Mining Town\u201d \u2022 Holly Lyn Walrath \u2022 2019 SFPA Poetry Contest
\n\u201cMy Stories Are Hungry\u201d \u2022 John C. Mannone \u2022 American Diversity Report, April 10
\n\u201cNan-e\u201d \u2022 Leon Mackenzie \u2022 Neon 49
\n\u201cNocturnal Embers\u201d \u2022 Lori R. Lopez \u2022 The Sirens Call 43
\n\u201cObsidian\u201d \u2022 Fungisayi Sasa \u2022 New Myths 46
\n\u201cOde to the Artistic Temperament\u201d \u2022 Michael H. Payne \u2022 Silver Blade 42
\n\u201cReincarnation\u201d \u2022 John C. Mannone \u2022 Abyss & Apex 69
\n\u201cA Ride through Faerie\u201d \u2022 Clay F. Johnson \u2022 Enchanted Conversation, September
\n\u201cThe Scarecrow\u2019s Lover\u201d \u2022 Alexandria Baisden \u2022 Abyss & Apex 72
\n\u201cThe Scroll of Thoth\u201d \u2022 Frank Coffman \u2022 The Coven\u2019s Hornbook and Other Poems (Bold Venture Press)
\n\u201cScylla and Charybdis\u201d \u2022 Wade German \u2022 Weird Fiction Review 9
\n\u201cSea Witch From the Deep\u201d \u2022 Ellen Huang \u2022 Apparition Lit 7
\n\u201cThe Storm Witch\u201d \u2022 Colleen Anderson \u2022 Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice
\n\u201cStormbound\u201d \u2022 Marsheila Rockwell \u2022 Polu Texni, February 11
\n\u201cSycophantam astrum\u201d \u2022 Rebecca Buchanan \u2022 Eye to the Telescope 34
\n\u201cTarot Times\u201d \u2022 Bruce Boston \u2022 Illumen, summer
\n\u201ctetrahedral edifices of a sticky rice realm\u201d \u2022 D. A. Xiaolin Spires \u2022 Mithila Review, November 20
\n\u201cTreason\u201d \u2022 Shana Ross \u2022 Liminality 20
\n\u201cthe undrowned\u201d \u2022 Catherine Kyle \u2022 Crab Fat Magazine, January
\n\u201cwhy not?\u201d \u2022 Gerri Leen \u2022 New Myths 49
\n\u201cwitches we\u201d \u2022 Adele Gardner \u2022 Bluff & Vine 3
\n\u201cThe Wolf Isn’t The Only One Who Hides in Human Clothes\u201d \u2022 Natalie Wang \u2022 Corvid Queen, January 5
\n\u201cThe Woman Who Talks to Her Dog at the Beach\u201d \u2022 Geoff Inverarity \u2022 Geist 113<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2020 Rhysling Award nominees have been announced. Our thanks at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association go to the 84 members from around the world who nominated poems. A total of 95 poets were nominated from work appearing in 67 publications. This year’s chair was SFPA Grand Master David C. Kopaska-Merkel. This year’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}