De Rhysling Award is de jaarlijkse onderscheiding voor het beste sciencefiction-, fantasy- of horrorgedicht. 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
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
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