2024 Rhysling Award Winners

• First Place: “No One Now Remembers,” Geoffrey A. Landis (Fantasy and Science Fiction 11-12/23)
• Second Place: “Language as a Form of Breath,” Angel Leal (Apparition Lit 10/23)
• Third Place: “The Day We All Died, A Little,” Lisa Timpf (Radon Journal 9/23)
• Honorable Mention: “Let Us Dream,” Myna Chang (Small Wonders 11/23)
• Honorable Mention: “As Does the Crow,” Beth Cato (Uncanny 7-8/23)
• Honorable Mention: “Mass-Market Affair,” Casey Aimer (Star*Line 11/23)

Long Poem Category

• First Place: “Little Brown Changeling,” Lauren Scharhag (Aphelion 5/23)
• Second Place: “The Witch Makes Her To-Do List,” Theodora Goss (Uncanny 1/23)
• Third Place: “An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis,” Angela Liu (Strange Horizons 11/23)
• Honorable Mention: “Pilot,” Akua Lezli Hope (Black Joy Unbound)
• Honorable Mention: “Cradling Fish,” Laura Ma (Strange Horizons, 5/23)
• Honorable Mention: “Archivist of a Lost World,” Gerri Leen (Eccentric Orbits 5/23)

Works are nominated by members of the SFPA, and nominated works are collected in a yearly Rhysling Anthology. This year’s chairs are David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Brian U. Garrison. Jurors are M.C. Childs, Jennifer Crow, Rebecca Olson, and E.F. Schraeder in the Short Poem category, and Eliza Claudia Filimon, Robert Frazier, Maxwell I. Gold, Jordan Hirsch, and Diane Severson Mori in the Long Poem category.

For more information, see the announcement on the SFPA website. For the SFPA’s awards for shorter poems, see the 2024 Dwarf Stars Awards.

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