The 2024 Rhysling Winners

2024 Rhysling Award—Short Poem: Geoffrey A. Landis
Winning poem: “No One Now Remembers”

Appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction November/December

Geoffrey A. Landis (bio to come).

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2024 Rhysling Award—Long Poem: Lauren Scharhag
Winning poem: “Little Brown Changeling”

Appeared in Aphelion 283

Lauren Scharhag(she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her latest releases include Screaming Intensifies (Whiskey City Press), the In the King’s Power series (self-published), and Ain’t These Sorrows Sweet (Roadside Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO. https://linktr.ee/laurenscharhag

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Second Place—Short Poem: Angel Leal
Language as a Form of Breath

Appeared in Apparition Lit 10/18

Angel Leal (bio to come)

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Second Place—Long Poem: Theodora Goss
“The Witch Makes Her To-Do List”

Appeared in Uncanny 50

Theodora Goss (bio to come).

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Lisa Timpf photoThird Place—Short Poem: Lisa Timpf
“The Day We All Died, A Little”

Appeared in Radon Journal 5

Lisa Timpf is a retired HR and communications professional who lives in Simcoe, Ontario. Her speculative poetry has appeared in New Myths, Star*Line, Triangulation: Seven-Day Weekend, Polar Borealis, and other venues. Her collection of speculative haibun poetry, In Days to Come, is available from Hiraeth Publishing. You can find out more about Lisa’s writing projects at http://lisatimpf.blogspot.com/.

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Third Place—Long Poem: Angela Liu
“An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis”

Appeared in Strange Horizons 11/6

Angela Liu is a Nebula-, Ignyte-, and Rhysling-nominated writer/poet from NYC who writes about intergenerational trauma and weird things. She formerly researched mixed reality storytelling at Keio University in Japan. Her stories and poetry are published in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Uncanny, The Dark, Interzone Digital, Small Wonders, Lightspeed, khōréō, and Logic(s), among others. Check out more of her work at liu-angela.com or find her on Twitter/Instagram @liu_angela and on Bluesky @angelaliu.bsky.social.
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Honorable Mention Poems: Short
“Let Us Dream” • Myna Chang • Small Wonders 3

“As Does the Crow” • Beth Cato • Uncanny 53

“Mass-Market Affair” • Casey Aimer • Star*Line 46.4

Honorable Mention Poems: Long
“Pilot” • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Joy Unboundeds. Stephanie Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle (BLF Press)

“Cradling Fish” • Laura Ma • Strange Horizons, , 5/29

“Archivist of a Lost World” • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 4

 

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