2023 Rhysling Award winners
Rhysling Policies and Procedures
Rhysling Sponsorship

2023 Anthology

2023 Rhysling Anthology cover
2023 Rhysling Anthology
2023 winners

Still Available

2022 Rhysling Anthology cover
2022 Rhysling Anthology
2022 winners

2021 Rhysling Anthology cover
2021 Rhysling Anthology
2021 winners

2020 Rhysling Anthology cover
2020 Rhysling Anthology
2020 winners

2019 Rhysling Anthology cover
2019 Rhysling Anthology
2019 winners

2018 Rhysling Anthology cover
2018 Rhysling Anthology
2018 winners

2017 Rhysling Anthology cover
2017 Rhysling Anthology
2017 winners

2016 Rhysling Anthology cover
2016 Rhysling Anthology
2016 winners

2015 Rhysling Anthology cover
2015 Rhysling Anthology
2015 winners

2014 Rhysling Anthology cover
2014 Rhysling Anthology
2014 winners

2013 Rhysling Anthology cover
2013 Rhysling Anthology
2013 winners

2012 Rhysling Anthology cover
2012 Rhysling Anthology
2012 winners

2011 Rhysling Anthology cover
2011 Rhysling Anthology
2011 winners

2010 Rhysling Anthology cover
2010 Rhysling Anthology
2010 winners

2009 Rhysling Anthology cover
2009 Rhysling Anthology
2009 winners

2008 Rhysling Anthology cover
2008 Rhysling Anthology
2008 winners

2007 Rhysling Anthology cover
2007 Rhysling Anthology
2007 winners

2006 Rhysling Anthology cover
2006 Rhysling Anthology
2006 winners

The SFPA Rhysling Awards and Anthology

2024 Rhysling Chairs: David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Brian U. Garrison

David C. Kopaska-Merkel photo David C. Kopaska-Merkel won the 2006 Rhysling award (long poem, written with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986). His poems have been published in Asimov’sStrange Horizons, and more than 200 other venues. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark poetry, was published in 2022. @DavidKMresists on CS. Blog:
https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/

Brian Garrison photo Brian U. Garrison co-edited the 2022 Rhysling Anthology and currently serves as Managing Editor for Eye to the Telescope. His poetry has waited at a bus stop in Montpelier, Vermont, popped out of a vending machine in Boston, Massachusetts, traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (among other cities) aboard Asimov's Science Fiction, and orbited Mars aboard NASA's MAVEN mission. You may need a microscope, telescope, and/or crystal ball to read his second chapbook Micropoetry for Microplanets (forthcoming from Space Cowboy Books). Look for him in Portland, Oregon—particularly around book stores and thrift stores.
http://www.bugthewriter.com

Nomination deadline February 15
Voting deadline September 15


Only SFPA members may nominate and vote.

Current 2024 Rhysling Nominees
2023 Rhysling Award winners
Rhysling archive and past winners
Rhysling nominee bios

About the Rhysling Awards
In January 1978, Suzette Haden Elgin founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, along with two of its visible cornerposts: the association's newsletter, Star*Line, and the Rhysling Awards.

The Rhysling Awards are named for the blind poet Rhysling in Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “The Green Hills of Earth.” Rhysling’s skills were said to rival Rudyard Kipling’s. In real life, Apollo 15 astronauts named a crater near their landing site “Rhysling,” which has since become its official name.

Nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: “Best Long Poem” (50–299 lines; for prose poems, 500–1,999 words) and “Best Short Poem” (11–49 lines; for prose poems, 101–499 words). All nominated works must have been first published during the preceding calendar year of the awards year. The Rhysling Awards are put to a final vote by the membership of the SFPA selection from all nominated works, presented in the Rhysling Anthology. The anthology allows the membership to easily review and consider all nominated works without the necessity of obtaining the diverse number of publications in which the nominated works first appeared. The Rhysling Anthology is available to anyone with an interest in this unique compilation of verse from some of the finest poets working in the field of SF/F/Horror poetry.

Printing and distribution of the Rhysling Anthology are paid for from a special fund, the Rhysling Endowment Fund. If you would like to contribute to this fund, please send a check, made out to SFPA, with a notation that it is for the Rhysling fund to the PO Box listed on the officers page.

or by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com. Credit card payments are accepted through PayPal. Without the generous donations of many SFPA members, the Anthology could not be published.

To view the contents of all the Rhysling Anthologies since 1978, see the Rhysling archive.

A copy of the annual Rhysling Anthology is included with SFPA membership.


ORDER NOW:
Print copies of the 2023 Rhysling Anthology are $15.95 each; print copies of previous years are available going back to 2006; inquire for earlier years. (Add + $5 USA postage. E-mail the treasurer for postage costs on non-U.S. or multiple copies.

PDF format for $4.

Payable by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com or by check or money order, made out to SFPA, mailed to the PO Box listed on the officers page.


background image sfpa logo