Rhysling Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 2025
Short Poem
- Winner: “How to Become a Sea Witch”, Theodora Goss (The Orange & Bee Apr 2025)
- Second Place: “The Mourning Robot”, Angela Liu (Uncanny Sep/Oct 2025)
- Third Place: “Final Moments of a Witch: A Poem Told in Reverse”, Pedro Iniguez (StokerCon 2025 Souvenir Anthology)
- Honorable Mention: “I Try to Explain the Concept of Teeth to My Alien Roommate”, Rachel Linton (Asimov's Jul/Aug 2025)
- Honorable Mention: “I Was Lt. Uhura”, January Gill O'Neil (Poetry Nov 2025)
- Honorable Mention: “Reaper”, Mary Soon Lee (Strange Horizons Apr 2025)
Long Poem
- Winner: “Hex Supply Customer Support Log”, Elis Montgomery (Strange Horizons Aug 2025)
- Second Place: “His New Antlers”, Rick Christiansen (Sheila-Na-Gig '25)
- Third Place: “One Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath”, Gwendolyn Hicks (Dangerous to Go Alone! 2)
- Honorable Mention: “Components”, PS Cottier (AntipodeanSF Nov 2025)
- Honorable Mention: “A Priestess of Bast Reflects on a Past Life”, Clarabelle Miray Fields (The Orange Rose Nov 2025)
- Honorable Mention: “Stationary”, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Focus '25)
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