Rhysling Award

De Rhysling Award is de jaarlijkse onderscheiding voor het beste sciencefiction-, fantasy- of horror gedicht. De prijs is genoemd naar een fictief persoon: de blinde dichter Rhysling uit het sciencefictionverhaal The Green Hills of Earth van Robert A. Heinlein.

De onderscheiding wordt uitgereikt in twee categorieën: het beste korte gedicht tot en met 50 regels en het beste lange gedicht, vanaf 50 regels. Gedichten worden genomineerd door leden van de Science Fiction Poetry Association SFPA. Elk lid mag een gedicht nomineren in beide categorieën. De genomineerde gedichten worden in The Rhysling Anthology gebundeld. De leden kiezen vervolgens de winnaars.

Behalve de Rhysling Award reikt de SFPA ook speciale onderscheidingen uit voor zeer korte gedichten, een tot tien regels: de Dwarf Stars Awards.

Winnaars van het beste lange gedicht

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1978 – Gene Wolfe - The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps
1979 – Michael Bishop - For the Lady of a Physicist
1980 – Andrew Joron - The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes
1981 – Thomas M. Disch On Science Fiction
1982 – Ursula K. Le Guin - The Well of Baln
1983 – Adam Cornford - Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide
1984 – Joe Haldeman - Saul's Death: Two Sestinas
1985 – Siv Cedering - A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)
1986 – Andrew Joron - Shipwrecked on Destiny Five
1987 – W. Gregory Stewart - Daedalus
1988 – Lucius Shepard - White Trains
1989 – ex aequo: Bruce Boston - In the Darkened Hours en John M. Ford Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
1990 – Patrick McKinnon - Dear Spacemen
1991 – David Memmott - The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire
1992 – W. Gregory Stewart - The Button and What You Know
1993 – William J. Daciuk - To Be from Earth
1994 – W. Gregory Stewart en Robert Frazier - Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale
1995 – David Lunde - Pilot, Pilot
1996 – Margaret B. Simon - Variants of the Obsolete
1997 – Terry A. Garey - Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes
1998 – Laurel Winter - Why Goldfish Shouldn't Use Power Tools
1999 – Bruce Boston - Confessions of a Body Thief
2000 – Geoffrey A. Landis - Christmas (after we all get time machines)
2001 – Joe Haldeman - January Fires
2002 – Lawrence Schimel - How to Make a Human
2003 – ex aequo: Charles Saplak, Mike Allen - Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy en Sonya Taaffe Matlacihuatl's Gift
2004 – Theodora Goss - Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks
2005 – Tim Pratt - Soul Searching
2006 – Kendall Evans en David C. Kopaska-Merkel - The Tin Men
2007 – Mike Allen - The Journey to Kailash
2008 – Catherynne M. Valente - The Seven Devils of Central California
2009 – Geoffrey A. Landis - Search
2010 – Kendall Evans en Samantha Henderson - In the Astronaut Asylum
2011 – C.S.E. Cooney - The Sea King's Second Bride
2012 – Megan Arkenberg - The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages
2013 – Andrew Robert Sutton - Into Flight
2014 – Mary Soon Lee - Interregnum
2015 – F.J. Bergmann - 100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien
2016 – ex aequo Krysada Panusith Phounsiri - It Begins With A Haunting en Ann K. Schwader - Keziah
2017 – Theodora Goss - Rose Child
2018 – Neil Gaiman - The Mushroom Hunters
2019 – Sarah Tolmie - Ursula le Guin in the Underworld
2020 – Rebecca Buchanan - Heliobacterium daphnephilum
2021 – Jenny Blackford - Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London
2022 – Beth Cato - The Bookstore

Winnaars van het beste korte gedicht

1978 – ex aequo: Duane Ackerson - The Starman, Andrew Joron - Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night en Sonya Dorman Corruption of Metals
1979 – ex aequo: Duane Ackerson - Fatalities en Steve Eng - Storybooks and Treasure Maps
1980 – ex aequo: Robert Frazier - Encased in the Amber of Eternity en Peter Payack - The Migration of Darkness
1981 – Ken Duffin - Meeting Place
1982 – Raymond DiZazzo - On the Speed of Sight
1983 – Alan P. Lightman - In Computers
1984 – Helen Ehrlich - Two Sonnets
1985 – Bruce Boston - For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets
1986 – Susan Palwick - The Neighbor's Wife
1987 – ex aequo: Jonathan V. Post - Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope en John Calvin Rezmerski - A Dream of Heredity
1988 – ex aequo: Bruce Boston - The Nightmare Collector en Suzette Haden Elgin - Rocky Road to Hoe
1989 – Robert Frazier - Salinity
1990 – G. Sutton Breiding - Epitaph for Dreams
1991 – Joe Haldeman - Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh
1992 – David Lunde - Song of the Martian Cricket
1993 – Jane Yolen - Will
1994 – ex aequo: Bruce Boston - Spacer's Compass en Jeff VanderMeer - Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over
1995 – Dan Raphael - Skin of Glass
1996 – Bruce Boston - Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation
1997 – W. Gregory Stewart - Day Omega
1998 – John Grey - Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother
1999 – Laurel Winter - Egg Horror Poem
2000 – Rebecca Marjesdatter - Grimoire
2001 – Bruce Boston - My Wife Returns as She Would Have It
2002 – William John Watkins - We Die as Angels
2003 – Ruth Berman - Potherb Gardening
2004 – Roger Dutcher - Just Distance
2005 – Greg Beatty - No Ruined Lunar City
2006 – Mike Allen - The Strip Search
2007 – Rich Ristow - The Graven Idol's Godheart
2008 – F.J. Bergmann - Eating Light
2009 – Amal El-Mohtar - Song for an Ancient City
2010 – Ann K. Schwader - To Theia
2011 – Amal El-Mohtar Peach-Creamed Honey
2012 – Shira Lipkin - The Library, After
2013 – Terry A. Garey - The Cat Star
2014 – Amal El-Mohtar - Turning the Leaves
2015 – Marge Simon - Shutdown
2016 – Ruth Berman - Time Travel Vocabulary Problems
2017 – Marge Simon - George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts
2018 – Mary Soon Lee - Advice to a Six-year-old
2019 – Beth Cato - After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls
2020 – Jessica Jo Horowitz - Taking, Keeping
2021 – Linda D. Addison - Summer Timelessness
2022 – Mary Soon Lee - Confessions of a Spaceport AI

Externe link

Alle winnaars Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetr Association