2023 Rhysling Awards Winners

• First Place (tie): “Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon”, Jennifer Crow (Star*Line 45.1)
• First Place (tie): “In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White”, Terese Mason Pierre (Uncanny 5-6/22)
• Second Place: “Bitch Moon”, Sarah Grey (Nightmare 7/22)
• Third Place (tie): “First Contact”, Lisa Timpf (Eye to the Telescope 44)
• Third Place (tie): “The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End”, Amelia Gorman (The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art)
• Honorable Mention: “Field Notes from the Anthropocene”, Priya Chand (Nightmare 5/22)
• Honorable Mention: “Near the end, your mother tells you she’s been seeing someone”, Shannon Connor Winward (SFPA Poetry Contest)
• Honorable Mention: “Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga”, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga)

Long Poem Category

• First Place: “Machine (r)Evolution”, Colleen Anderson (Radon 2)
• Second Place: “The Bone Tree”, Rebecca Buchanan (Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution)
• Third Place: “Igbo Landing II”, Akua Lezli Hope (Black Fire—This Time)
• Honorable Mention: “Herbaceous Citadel”, Avra Margariti (The Fairy Tale Magazine 1/4/22)
• Honorable Mention: “Living in Rubble”, Gerri Leen (Eccentric Orbits 3)
• Honorable Mention: “The Thing About Stars”, Avra Magariti (The Saint of Witches)

For more information, see the announcement on the SFPA website.

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