Rhysling Awards Winners By Year
science fiction awards database
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— 2025 — | |
| short poem | “Lost Ark”, F. J. Bergmann |
| long poem | “The Blackthorn”, Mary Sue Lee |
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— 2024 — | |
| short poem | “No One Now Remembers”, Geoffrey A. Landis |
| long poem | “Little Brown Changeling”, Lauren Scharhag |
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— 2023 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon”, Jennifer Crow |
| short poem | (tie) “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre |
| long poem | “Machine (r)Evolution”, Colleen Anderson |
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— 2022 — | |
| short poem | “Confessions of a Spaceport AI”, Mary Soon Lee |
| long poem | “The Bookstore”, Beth Cato |
| grand master | Mary Soon Lee |
| grand master | Akua Lezli Hope |
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— 2021 — | |
| short poem | “Summer Time(lessness)”, Linda D. Addison |
| long poem | “Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London”, Jenny Blackford |
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— 2020 — | |
| short poem | “Taking, Keeping”, Jessica J. Horowitz |
| long poem | “Heliobacterium daphnephilum”, Rebecca Buchanan |
| grand master | Linda D. Addison |
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— 2019 — | |
| short poem | “After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls”, Beth Cato |
| long poem | “Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld”, Sarah Tolmie |
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— 2018 — | |
| short poem | “Advice to a Six-Year-Old”, Mary Soon Lee |
| long poem | “The Mushroom Hunters”, Neil Gaiman |
| grand master | Ann K. Schwader |
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— 2017 — | |
| short poem | “George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts”, Marge Simon |
| long poem | “Rose Child”, Theodora Goss |
| grand master | David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
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— 2016 — | |
| short poem | “Time Travel Vocabulary Problems”, Ruth Berman |
| long poem | (tie) “It Begins with a Haunting”, Krysada Panusith Phounsiri |
| long poem | (tie) “Keziah”, Ann K. Schwader |
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— 2015 — | |
| short poem | “Shutdown”, Marge Simon |
| long poem | “100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien”, F. J. Bergmann |
| grand master poet | Marge Simon |
| grand master poet | Steve Sneyd |
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— 2014 — | |
| short poem | “Turning the Leaves”, Amal El-Mohtar |
| long poem | “Interregnum”, Mary Soon Lee |
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— 2013 — | |
| short poem | “Into Flight”, Andrew Robert Sutton |
| long poem | “The Cat Star”, Terry Garey |
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— 2012 — | |
| short poem | “The Library, After”, Shira Lipkin |
| long poem | “The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages”, Megan Arkenberg |
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— 2011 — | |
| short poem | “Peach-Creamed Honey”, Amal El-Mohtar |
| long poem | “The Sea King's Second Bride”, C. S. E. Cooney |
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— 2010 — | |
| short poem | “To Theia”, Ann K. Schwader |
| long poem | “In the Astronaut Asylum”, Kendall Evans & Samantha Henderson |
| grand master poet | Jane Yolen |
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— 2009 — | |
| short poem | “Song for an Ancient City”, Amal El-Mohtar |
| long poem | “Search”, Geoffrey A. Landis |
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— 2008 — | |
| short poem | “Eating Light”, F. J. Bergmann |
| long poem | “The Seven Devils of Central California”, Catherynne M. Valente |
| grand master poet | Ray Bradbury |
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— 2007 — | |
| short poem | “The Graven Idol's Godheart”, Rich Ristow |
| long poem | “The Journey to Kailash”, Mike Allen |
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— 2006 — | |
| short poem | “The Strip Search”, Mike Allen |
| long poem | “The Tin Men”, Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
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— 2005 — | |
| short poem | “No Ruined Lunar City”, Greg Beatty |
| long poem | “Soul Searching”, Tim Pratt |
| grand master poet | Robert Frazier |
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— 2004 — | |
| short poem | “Just Distance”, Roger Dutcher |
| long poem | “Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks”, Theodora Goss |
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— 2003 — | |
| short poem | “Potherb Gardening”, Ruth Berman |
| long poem | (tie) “Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy”, Charles Saplak & Mike Allen |
| long poem | (tie) “Matlacihuatl's Gift”, Sonya Taaffe |
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— 2002 — | |
| short poem | “We Die As Angels”, William John Watkins |
| long poem | “How to Make a Human”, Lawrence Schimel |
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— 2001 — | |
| short poem | “My Wife Returns As She Would Have It”, Bruce Boston |
| long poem | “January Fires”, Joe Haldeman |
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— 2000 — | |
| short poem | “Grimoire”, Rebecca Marjesdatter |
| long poem | “Christmas (after we all got time machines)”, Geoffrey A. Landis |
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— 1999 — | |
| short poem | “Confessions of a Body Thief”, Bruce Boston |
| long poem | “egg horror poem”, Laurel Winter |
| grand master poet | Bruce Boston |
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— 1998 — | |
| short poem | “Explaining Frankenstein To His Mother”, John Grey |
| long poem | “why goldfish shouldn't use power tools”, Laurel Winter |
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— 1997 — | |
| short poem | “Day Omega”, W. Gregory Stewart |
| long poem | “Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes”, Terry Garey |
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— 1996 — | |
| short poem | “Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation”, Bruce Boston |
| long poem | “Variants of the Obsolete”, Marge Simon |
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— 1995 — | |
| short poem | “Skin of Glass”, Dan Raphael |
| long poem | “Pilot, Pilot”, David Lunde |
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— 1994 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “Spacer's Compass”, Bruce Boston |
| short poem | (tie) “Flight Is For Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over”, Jeff VanderMeer |
| long poem | “Basement Flats”, W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier |
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— 1993 — | |
| short poem | “Will”, Jane Yolen |
| long poem | “To Be from Earth”, William Daciuk |
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— 1992 — | |
| short poem | “Song of the Martian Cricket”, David Lunde |
| long poem | “The button, and what you know”, W. Gregory Stewart |
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— 1991 — | |
| short poem | “Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh”, Joe Haldeman |
| long poem | “The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire”, David Memmott |
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— 1990 — | |
| short poem | “Epitaph for Dreams”, G. Sutton Breiding |
| long poem | “dear spacemen”, Patrick McKinnon |
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— 1989 — | |
| short poem | “Salinity”, Robert Frazier |
| long poem | (tie) “In the Darkened Hours”, Bruce Boston |
| long poem | (tie) “Winter Solstice, Camelot Station”, John M. Ford |
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— 1988 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “The Nightmare Collector”, Bruce Boston |
| short poem | (tie) “Rocky Road to Hoe”, Suzette Haden Elgin |
| long poem | “White Trains”, Lucius Shepard |
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— 1987 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “A Dream of Heredity”, John Calvin Rezmerski |
| short poem | (tie) “Before the Big Bang”, Jonathan V. Post |
| long poem | “Daedalus”, W. Gregory Stewart |
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— 1986 — | |
| short poem | “The Neighbor's Wife”, Susan Palwick |
| long poem | “Shipwrecked on Destiny Five”, Andrew Joron |
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— 1985 — | |
| short poem | “For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets”, Bruce Boston |
| long poem | “A Letter from Caroline Herschel”, Siv Cedering |
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— 1984 — | |
| short poem | “Two Sonnets”, Helen Ehrlich |
| long poem | “Saul's Death”, Joe Haldeman |
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— 1983 — | |
| short poem | “In Computers”, Alan P. Lightman |
| long poem | “Your Time and You”, Adam Cornfield |
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— 1982 — | |
| short poem | “On the Speed of Light”, Raymond DiZazzo |
| long poem | “The Well of Baln”, Ursula K. Le Guin |
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— 1981 — | |
| short poem | “Meeting Place”, Ken Duffin |
| long poem | “On Science Fiction”, Thomas M. Disch |
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— 1980 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “The Migration of Darkness”, Peter Payack |
| short poem | (tie) “Encased in the Amber of Eternity”, Robert Frazier |
| long poem | “The Sonic Waterfall of Primes”, Andrew Joron |
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— 1979 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “Fatalities”, Duane Ackerson |
| short poem | (tie) “Story Books and Treasure Maps”, Steve Eng |
| long poem | “For the Lady of a Physicist”, Michael Bishop |
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— 1978 — | |
| short poem | (tie) “The Starman”, Duane Ackerson |
| short poem | (tie) “Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night”, Andrew Joron |
| short poem | (tie) “Corruption of Metals”, Sonya Dorman |
| long poem | “The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps”, Gene Wolfe |
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