2014 Rhysling Awards Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the annual Rhysling Awards for science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry, short and long form. This year’s winners are:

SHORT POEM:

First Place
“Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar (Apex Magazine 12/13)

Second Place
“Rivers”, Geoffrey A. Landis (Asimov’s 6/13)

Third Place
“Music of the Stars”, Bruce Boston (2013 Balticon Program Book)

LONG POEM:

First Place
“Interregenum”, Mary Soon Lee (Star*Line 36.4)

Second Place
“Hungry Constellations”, Mike Allen (Goblin Fruit Fall 2013)

Third Place
“I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz”, Rose Lemberg (Goblin Fruit Summer 2013)

Poems are chosen by the membership of the SFPA, who vote on a list of nominations made by individual members and published in the Rhysling Anthology. Winners are regularly reprinted in the annual Nebula Awards Anthology.