2014 Rhysling Award—Short Poem: Amal El-Mohtar Appeared in Apex Magazine December 2013
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2014 Rhysling Award—Long Poem: Mary Soon Lee Appeared in Star*Line 36.4
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Second Place—Short Poem: Geoffrey A. Landis Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2013  Geoffrey A. Landis is a physicist, science fiction writer, and poet. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Heinlein award for fiction, and the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars awards for poetry. When he is not writing, he is a scientist at the NASA John Glenn Research Center, developing new technologies for spaceflight. |
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Second Place—Long Poem: Mike Allen Appeared in Goblin Fruit Fall 2013
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Third Place—Short Poem: Rose Lemberg Appeared in Goblin Fruit Summer 2013 (bio) |
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Third Place—Long Poem: Bruce Boston Poem: “Music of the Stars” Appeared in 2013 Balticon Program Book  Bruce Boston is the author of more than fifty books and chapbooks, including the dystopian sf novel The Guardener’s Tale and the psychedelic coming-of-age novel Stained Glass Rain. His poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov’s Readers Award, the Gothic Readers Choice Award, the Balticon Poetry Award, and the Rhysling and Grandmaster Awards of the SFPA. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and twice been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (novel, short story). His latest collection, Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012, is available from Amazon and Dark Renaissance Books. bruceboston.com |
The 2014 Rhysling
Winners
Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of poetry and prose written to the taste of twenty-eight different kinds of honey. Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Uncanny, Lightspeed, Stone Telling, Apex, Mythic Delirium, and Strange Horizons. Most recently her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed magazine's Women Destroy Science Fiction special issue and Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories. She is a founding member of the Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours, edits Goblin Fruit, a quarterly journal of fantastical poetry, and lives in Glasgow with her fiancé and two jellicle cats.
Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but became a naturalized US citizen in 2003. She has had over a hundred poems published, in places ranging from the Atlanta Review to Star*Line to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Once upon a time, she also wrote short stories, including appearances in The Year’s Best SF #5 and The Year’s Best Fantasy #4. She is currently working on The Sign of the Dragon, an extended poetry sequence featuring dragons, demons, and a heroic king, a small part of which may be read at
Mike Allen edits the digital journal 