Rhysling Award

Rhysling Award
Rhysling Award
Awarded for	Best speculative poetry of the prior year
Country	United States
Presented by	Science Fiction Poetry Association
Website	http://www.sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html

The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. The award name was dubbed by Andrew Joron in reference to a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth".^[1] The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines.^[1]

Awarded forBest speculative poetry of the prior year

CountryUnited States

Presented byScience Fiction Poetry Association

Websitehttp://www.sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html

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The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. Until 2022, all nominated works were compiled into an anthology called The Rhysling Anthology, and members of the Association would then vote on the final winners. In 2022, the process was changed such that the nominees are instead presented to a jury, who select no more than 50 finalists for the short award, and no more than 25 for the long award. Now only these finalist are compiled into the anthology and put to a final vote by the SFPA membership.^[2] From 2005 to 2011, the Awards were presented in July at a ceremony at Readercon. In 2022, eligibility guidelines were changed to exclude poems that qualify for the Dwarf Stars Award or the Elgin Awards.^[2]

In 2005, the SFPA published an anthology of the winning poems, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase.^[3]^[4]

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Year	Category	Poem	Author(s)	Publication	Ref.
1978	Long	The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps*	Gene Wolfe	Speculative Poetry Review	^[7]
	Short	Corruption of Metals*	Sonya Dorman	2076: The American Tricentennial, Pyramid Books
		Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night*	Andrew Joron	Speculative Poetry Review
		The Starman*	Duane Ackerson	Cthulhu Calls
1979	Long	For the Lady of a Physicist*	Michael Bishop	Black Holes, Fawcett Books	^[8]
	Short	Fatalities*	Duane Ackerson	The Eggplant and Other Absurdities, Confluence Press
	Short	Story Books and Treasure Maps*	Steve Eng	Equinox

Year	Category	Poem	Author(s)	Publication	Ref.
1980	Long	The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes*	Andrew Joron	New Worlds	^[9]
	Short	The Migration of Darkness*	Peter Payack	Asimov's Science Fiction
	Short	Encased in the Amber of Eternity*	Robert Frazier	The Future at War
1981	Long	On Science Fiction*	Thomas M. Disch	Triquarterly	^[10]
1981	Short	Meeting Place*	Ken Duffin	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[10]
1982	Long	The Well of Bain*	Ursula K. Le Guin	Hard Words & Other Poems, Harper & Row	^[11]
1982	Short	On the Speed of Sight*	Raymond DiZazzo	Uranus	^[11]
1983	Long	Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide*	Adam Cornford	Velocities	^[12]
1983	Short	In Computers*	Alan P. Lightman	Science 82	^[12]
1984	Long	Saul's Death: Two Sestina's*	Joe W. Haldeman	Omni	^[13]
1984	Short	Two Sonnets*	Helen Ehrlich	Science 83	^[13]
1985	Long	A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)*	Siv Cedering	Science 84	^[14]
1985	Short	For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets*	Bruce Boston	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[14]
1986	Long	Shipwrecked on Destiny Five*	Andrew Joron	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[15]
1986	Short	The Neighbour's Wife*	Susan Palwick	Amazing Stories	^[15]
1987	Long	Daedalus*	W. Gregory Stewart	StarLine*	^[16]
	Short	A Dream of Heredity*	John Calvin Rezmerski	Tales of the Unanticipated
	Short	Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope*	Jonathan V. Post	StarLine*
1988	Long	White Trains*	Lucius Shepard	Night Cry	^[17]
	Short	The Nightmare Collector*	Bruce Boston	Night Cry
	Short	Rocky Road to Hoe*	Suzette Haden Elgin	StarLine*
1989	Long	In the Darkened Hours*	Bruce Boston	The Nightmare Collector, 2AM	^[18]
	Long	Winter Solstice, Camelot Station*	John M. Ford	Invitation to Camelot, Ace Books
	Short	Salinity*	Robert Frazier	Fantasy & Science Fiction

Year	Category	Poem	Author(s)	Publication	Ref.
1990	Long	dear spacemen*	Patrick McKinnon	Vice Versa	^[19]
1990	Short	Epitaph for Dreams*	G. Sutton Breiding	Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell's Kitchen Productions	^[19]
1991	Long	The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire*	David Memmott	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry	^[20]
1991	Short	Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh*	Joe W. Haldeman	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[20]
1992	Long	the button, and what you know*	W. Gregory Stewart	Amazing Stories	^[21]
1992	Short	Song of the Martian Cricket*	David Lunde	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[21]
1993	Long	To Be from Earth*	William J. Daciuk	Xizquil	^[22]
1993	Short	Will*	Jane Yolen	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry	^[22]
1994	Long	Basement Flats*	W. Gregory Stewart	Air Fish, Catseye Books	^[23]
	Long	Basement Flats*	Robert Frazier	Air Fish, Catseye Books
	Short	Spacer's Compass*	Bruce Boston	Specula, Talisman
	Short	Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over*	Jeff VanderMeer	The Silver Web
1995	Long	Pilot, Pilot*	David Lunde	StarLine*	^[5]
		A Life, Considered in Thirds, Set Against a Galactic Collapse	W. Gregory Stewart	StarLine*
		Partial People	Terry Bisson	Bears Discover Fire, Tor Books
		Homeflight	Alan Rice Osborn	StarLine*
		Between Test Patterns	W. Gregory Stewart	Antepenult, Dark Regions Press
		Fire, Ice	Joe Haldeman	Omni
		Dreaming Saturn	James S. Dorr	Dark Destiny, White Wolf Publishing
	Short	Skin of Glass*	Dan Raphael	The Kore
		In These Hills	Denise Dumars	StarLine*
		Dinosaur Highway	Scott E. Green	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Elements of Love	Jonathan V. Post	Space and Time
1996	Long	Variants of the Obsolete*	Marge Simon	Eonian Variations, The Selected Poetry of Marge Simon, Dark Regions Press	^[6]
	Long	The Westfarer	James S. Dorr	Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate, White Wolf Publishing
	Short	Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation*	Bruce Boston	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Satan is a Mathematician	Keith Allen Daniels	Once Upon a Midnight, Unnameable Press
		Bilateral Symmetry	Denise Dumars	Space and Time
1997	Long	Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes*	Terry A. Garey	Serve It Forth, Warner Aspect	^[24]
		Memories of My Mistress^†	Blythe Ayne	Mindsparks SF Poetry Anthology
		Canto (Evocare!)^‡	James S. Dorr	Dante's Disciples, White Wolf Press
	Short	Day Omega*	W. Gregory Stewart	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Dash^†	Mary Turzillo	Tales of the Unanticipated
		Speaking Bones^‡	Denise Dumars	Speaking Bones, Dark Regions Press
1998	Long	why goldfish shouldn't use power tools*	Laurel Winter	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[24]
		Ghost Ships^†	Charlee Jacob	Asylums and Labyrinths
		Medusa's Daughter^‡	James S. Dorr	StarLine*
	Short	Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother*	John Grey	StarLine*
		Shaman^†	Charlee Jacob	The Catbird Seat
		It's All Time-Machines, She Said^‡	Timons Esaias	StarLine*
		On Reading Bradbury^‡	Sandra Kasturi	Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books
1999	Long	Confessions of a Body Thief*	Bruce Boston	Talisman	^[25]
1999	Short	egg horror poem*	Laurel Winter	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[25]

Year	Category	Poem	Author(s)	Publication	Ref.
2000	Long	Christmas (after we all get time machines)*	Geoffrey A. Landis	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[26]
		Handwork^†	Rebecca Marjesdatter	Women of Other Wolds, University of Western Australia Press
		Salem Town^‡	Corrine De Winter	Gathering Darkness
		Impressions from Giger's "Necronomicons"^‡	Charlee Jacob	Dreams & Nightmares
	Short	Grimoire*	Rebecca Marjesdatter	Tales of the Unanticipated
		Clark the Ripper^†	David C. Kopaska-Merkel	Dreams & Nightmares
		The Au Pair from Out There^†	Ann K. Schwader	StarLine*
		Brigit^†	Peggy J. Taylor	Calyx
		Silicon Trade Agreement^‡	Ruth Berman	Tales of the Unanticipated
		The Unfinished Map of the Sky^‡	G. O. Clark	Fantasque
		A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant^‡	David Lunde	Asimov's Science Fiction
		The Language of Rain^‡	Wendy Rathbone	Dreams & Nightmares
		song of a last duckbill^‡	W. Gregory Stewart	StarLine*
2001	Long	January Fires*	Joe Haldeman	Asimov's Science Fiction	^[27]
		Maya^†	James S. Dorr	Strange Attraction, Bereshith/Shadowlands Press
		Valley of Years^†	David C. Kopaska-Merkel	Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices, Eraserhead Press
		The Lesions of Genetic Sin^‡	Bruce Boston	Miniature Sun Press
		Event Horizons^‡	Gene van Troyer	Snow Monkey
	Short	My Wife Returns As She Would Have It*	Bruce Boston	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Of Dance Steps and Distances^†	G. O. Clark	Icarus Ascending
		Reflections in a Fading "Mir"^†	Ann K. Schwader	Mythic Delirium
		Persephone Wakening^‡	Tracina Jackson-Adams	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
2002	Long	How to Make a Human*	Lawrence Schimel	Half-Human, Scholastic	^[28]
		Pavane for a Cyber-Princess^†	Bruce Boston	Pavane for a Cyber-Princess, Miniature Sun Press
		In Bubastis^†	Denise Dumars	StarLine*
		Trouble With Math^‡	Roger Dutcher	StarLine*
		A Crash Course in Lemon Physics^‡	Robert Frazier	Strange Horizons
	Short	We Die as Angels*	William John Watkins	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Threnody at Sea^†	Mark Rudolph	Strange Horizons
		True Love^‡	Ian Watson	Weird Tales
2003	Long	Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy*	Charles Sapiak	EOTU Ezine	^[29]
		Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy*	Mike Allen	EOTU Ezine
		Matlacihuatl's Gift*	Sonya Taffe	Dreams & Nightmares
		Medusa's Tale^†	David C. Kopaska-Merkel	Mythic Delirium
		Not One of Us^‡	Tyree Campbell	Sex and the Single Alien, Writer's Club Press
	Short	Potherb Gardening*	Ruth Berman	Asimov's Science Fiction
		A Ghost Story^†	Mike Allen	Weird Tales
		meteor shower^‡	David C. Kopaska-Merkel	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
2004	Long	Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks*	Theodora Goss	Mythic Delirium	^[30]
		A Portrait of the Artist^†	Vandana Singh	Strange Horizons
		Hugo Schizofrenica^‡	Charlee Jacob	Miniature Sun Press
	Short	Just Distance*	Roger Dutcher	Tales of the Unanticipated
		"Observe the Month of Spring"^†	Lucy Cohen Schmeidler	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
		How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves^‡	Mike Allen	Strange Horizons
		Nursery Ghosts^‡	Sandra Lindow	Raven Electrick
2005	Long	Soul Searching*	Tim Pratt	Strange Horizons	^[31]
		Making Monsters^†	Tim Pratt	Strange Horizons
		The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory^‡	Mike Allen	Dreams & Nightmares
	Short	No Ruined Lunar City*	Greg Beatty	Abyss & Apex
		The Clockmaker's Wife^†	Mikal Trimm	StarLine*
		Rich & Strange^‡	Ann K. Schwader	Strange Horizons
2006	Long	The Tin Men*	Kendall Evans	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry	^[32]
		The Tin Men*	David C. Kopaska-Merkel	The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
		Old Twentieth: a century full of years^†	Joe Haldeman	Readercon 16 Souvenir Book
		First Cross of Mars^‡	Drew Morse	Illumen
	Short	The Strip Search*	Mike Allen	Strange Horizons
		Tsunami Child^†	David C. Kopaska-Merkel	StarLine*
		South^‡	Marge Simon	Illumen
2007	Long	The Journey to Kailash*	Mike Allen	Strange Horizons	^[33]
		The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider^†	Catherynne M. Valente	Mythic
		Sleepers^‡	Samantha Henderson	Dreams & Nightmares
	Short	The Graven Idol's Godheart*	Rich Ristow	The Shantytown Anomaly
		god is dead short live god^†	Joe Haldeman	Mythic
		Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole^‡	Lawrence Schimel	Helix
2008	Long	The Seven Devils of Central California*	Catherynne M. Valente	Farrago's Wainscot	^[34]
		In Deepspace Shadows^†	Kendall Evans	In Deepspace Shadows, Mythic Delirium Books
		The Engineer^‡	Bryan D. Dietrich	Isotope
	Short	Eating Light*	F. J. Bergmann	Mythic Delirium
		Ice Palace^†	Margaret Atwood	The Door, McClelland & Stewart
		The Oracle on River Street^‡	Rachel Swirsky	Goblin Fruit
2009	Long	Search*	Geoffrey A. Landis	Helix	^[35]
		Hungry: Some Ghost Stories^†	Samantha Henderson	Lone Star Stories
		Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero; or, The City Is Never Finished^‡	Amal El-Mohtar	Lone Star Stories
			Catherynne M. Valente	Lone Star Stories
	Short	Songs to an Ancient City*	Amal El-Mohtar	Mythic Delirium
		Spell^†	Samantha Henderson	Goblin Fruit
		The Future^‡	Billy Collins	The New Yorker

Year	Category	Poem	Author(s)	Publication	Ref.
2010	Long	In the Astronaut Asylum*	Kendall Evans	Mythic Delirium	^[36]^[37]
		In the Astronaut Asylum*	Samantha Henderson	Mythic Delirium
		Rattlebox III^†	Mike Allen	Strange Horizons
			Kendall Evans
			David C. Kopaska-Merkel
		The First Story^‡	Lana Hechtman Ayers	Hot Metal Press
	Short	To Theia*	Ann K. Schwader	Strange Horizons
		The Changeling Always Wins^†	Nicole Kornher-Stace	Goblin Fruit
		Nine Views of the Oracle^‡	Rachel Manija Brown	Abyss & Apex
2011	Long	The Sea King's Second Bible*	C. S. E. Cooney	Goblin Fruit	^[38]^[39]
		Dark Rains Here and There^†	Bruce Boston	Dark Matters, Bad Moon Books
		Wreck-Diving the Spaceship^‡	Robert Frazier	Dreams & Nightmares
	Short	Peach-Creamed Honey*	Amal El-Mohtar	The Honey Month, Papaveria Press
		Binary Creation Myth^†	Karen A. Romanko	StarLine*
		Dogstar Men^‡	C. S. E. Cooney	Apex Magazine
2012	Long	The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages*	Megan Arkenberg	Stange Horizons	^[40]^[41]
		The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars^†	G. O. Clark	Dreams & Nightmares
		The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars^†	Kendall Evans	Dreams & Nightmares
		The Legend of the Emperor's Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality)^‡	Mary Turzillo	New Myths
	Short	The Library, After*	Shira Lipkin	Mythic Delirium
		The Lend^†	Erik Amundsen	Stone Telling
		In Translation^‡	C. A. Gardner	Tales of the Talisman
2013	Long	Into Flight*	Andrew Robert Sutton	Silver Blade	^[42]^[43]
		String Theory^†	John Philip Johnson	Ad Astra
		The Necromantic Wine^‡	Wade German	Avatars of Wizardy, P'rea Press
		The Time Travelers Weekend^‡	Adele Gardner	Liquid Imagination
	Short	The Cat Star*	Terry Garey	Lady Poetesses from Hell, Bag Person Press
		Futurity's Shoelaces^†	Marge Simon	Balticon 2012 Program Book
		Sister Philomena Heard the Voices of Angels^‡	Megan Arkenberg	Strange Horizons
2014	Long	Interregnum*	Mary Soon Lee	StarLine*	^[44]^[45]
		Hungry Constellations^†	Mike Allen	Goblin Fruit
		I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz^‡	Rose Lemburg	Goblin Fruit
	Short	Turning the Leaves*	Amal El-Mohtar	Apex Magazine
		Rivers^†	Geoffrey A. Landis	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Music of the Stars^‡	Bruce Boston	Balticon 2013 Program Book
2015	Long	100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien*	F. J. Bergmann	2014 SFPA Poetry Contest	^[46]^[47]
		Six Things the Owl Said^†	Megan Arkenberg	Goblin Fruit
		The Perfect Library^‡	David Clink	If the World Were to Stop, Piquant Press
	Short	Shutdown*	Marge Simon	Qualia Nous, Written Backwards
		Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore's “Poetry”)^†	Ruth Berman	Dreams & Nightmares
		I Imagine My Mother's Death^‡	Bryan D. Dietrich	The Pedestal Magazine
		The Peal Divers^‡	Francesca Forrest	Strange Horizons
		Extinction^‡	Joshua Gage	StarLine*
		After the Changeling Incantation^‡	John Philip Johnson	Strange Horizons
2016	Long	It Begins With A Haunting*	Krysada Panusith Phounsiri	Dance Among Elephants, Sahtu Press	^[48]^[49]
		Keziah*	Ann K. Schwader	Dark Energies, P'rea Press
		Chronopatetic^†	F. J. Bergmann	Dreams & Nightmares
		from "Sunspots"^‡	Simon Barraclough	Poetry
		The White Planet^‡	Albert Goldbarth	Boulevard
	Short	Time Travel Vocabulary Problems*	Ruth Berman	Dreams & Nightmares
		Tech Support for the Apocalypse^†	F. J. Bergmann	Dreams & Nightmares
		An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice^‡	Sandra J. Lindow	Gyroscope Review
2017	Long	Rose Child*	Theodora Goss	Uncanny	^[50]^[51]
		The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner^†	Adam Bolivar	Spectral Realms
		Not Like This^‡	Mary Soon Lee	Apex Magazine
	Short	George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts*	Marge Simon	Silver Blade
		Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A Instructions and Suggestions”)^†	Wendy Rathbone	Asimov's Science Fiction
		Godzilla Vs. King Kong^‡	James S. Dorr	Dreams & Nightmares
		Richard Feynman's Commute^‡	Jon Wesick	The Were-Traveler
		The Box of Dust and Monsters^‡	Beth Cato	Devilfish Review
2018	Long	The Mushroom Hunters*	Neil Gaiman	Brain Pickings	^[52]^[53]
		For Preserves^†	Cassandra Rose Clarke	StarLine*
		Alternate Genders^‡	Mary Soon Lee	Mithila Review
	Short	Advice to a Six-Year-Old*	Mary Soon Lee	StarLine*
		Rivers^†	Sara Cleto	Mythic Delirium
		Gramarye^‡	F. J. Bergmann	Polu Texni
2019	Long	Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld*	Sarah Tolmie	On Spec	^[54]^[55]
		The Fairies in the Crawlspace^†	Beth Cato	Uncanny
		3-Minute Future^‡	F. J. Bergmann	Unlikely Stories V
	Short	After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls*	Beth Cato	Mythic Delirium
		What Loves You^†	Jeff Crandall	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
		A City Built on Bones^‡	Ann K. Schwader	Abyss & Apex
		3D-Printed Brother^‡	Millie Ho	Strange Horizons

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Year	Category	Poem	Author(s)	Publication	Ref.
2020	Long	"Heliobacterium daphnephilum"*	Rebecca Buchanan	StarLine*	^[56]^[57]
		The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly^†	Theodora Goss	Uncanny
		The Macabre Modern^‡	Kyla Lee Ward	The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities, P'rea Press
		Ode to the Artistic Temperament^‡	Michael H. Payne	Silver Blade
	Short	Taking, Keeping*	Jessica J. Horowitz	Apparition Lit
		when my father reprograms my mother {^†	Caroline Mao	Strange Horizons
		Creation: Dark Matter Dating App^‡	Sandra J. Lindow	Asimov's Science Fiction
		The Day the Animals Turned to Sand^‡	Tyler Hagemann	Amazing Stories
2021	Long	Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London*	Jenny Blackford	Strange Horizons	^[58]^[59]
		A Song from Bedlam (with apologies to Christopher Smart)^†	Nike Sulway	Liminality
		Devilish Incarnations^‡	Bruce Boston	StarLine*
	Short	Summer Time(lessness)*	Linda D. Addison	StarLine*
		Why did white people conquer the world for spices and then never use them?^†	R. Thursday	Drunk Monkeys
		Darning^‡	Sandra J. Lindow	Asimov's Science Fiction
2022	Long	The Bookstore*	Beth Cato	New Myths	^[60]^[61]^[62]
		Reservation Fairy Tales 101—Final Exam^†	Marshella Rockwell	Augur Magazine
		Alexander's Babylon^‡	Marge Simon	Victims, Weasel Press
		Alexander's Babylon^‡	Mary Turzillo	Victims, Weasel Press
		The Captain Flies	Avi Silver	Uncanny Magazine
		Medusa Gets a Haircut	Theodora Goss	Uncanny Magazine
	Short	Confessions of a Spaceport AI*	Mary Soon Lee	Uncanny Magazine
		Gravity (some things that fly)^†	Geoffrey A. Landis	Space and Time
		The Butterfly Affect^‡	Linda D. Addison	Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology, Brigids Gate Press
		our translucent bodies	Devin Miller	Mermaids Monthly
		dry land	Maria Zocolla	Strange Horizons
		Exquisite	Lee Murray	Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, Yuriko Publishing
2023	Long	Machine (r)Evolution*	Colleen Anderson	Radon Journal	^[63]^[64]
		The Bone Tree^†	Rebecca Buchanan	Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution, Jackanapes Press
		Igbo Landing II^‡	Akua Lezli Hope	Black Fire—This Time, Aquarius Press
		Herbaceous Citadel	Avra Margariti	The Fairy Tale Magazine
		Living in Rubble	Gerri Leen	Eccentric Orbits 3, Dimensionfold Publishing
		The Thing About Stars	Avra Margariti	Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Black Spot Books
	Short	Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon*	Jennifer Crow	StarLine*
		In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White*	Terese Mason Piere	Uncanny Magazine
		Bitch Moon^†	Sarah Grey	Nightmare Magazine
		First Contact^‡	Lisa Timpf	Eye to the Telescope
		The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End^‡	Amelia Gorman	The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, Mind's Eye Publications
		Field Notes from the Anthropocene	Priya Chand	Nightmare Magazine
		Near the end, your mother tells you she's been seeing someone	Shannon Connor Winward	SFPA Poetry Contest
		Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga	Stephanie M. Wytovich	Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Black Spot Books
2024	Long	Little Brown Changeling*	Lauren Scharhag	Aphelion	^[65]^[66]
		The Witch Makes Her To-Do List^†	Theodora Goss	Uncanny Magazine
		An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis^‡	Angela Liu	Strange Horizons
		Pilot	Akua Lezli Hope	Black Joy Unbound, BLF Press
		Cradling Fish	Laura Ma	Strange Horizons
		Archivist of a Lost World	Gerri Leen	Eccentric Orbits
	Short	No One Now Remembers*	Geoffrey A. Landis	Fantasy and Science Fiction
		Language as a Form of Breath^†	Angel Leal	Apparition Lit
		The Day We All Died, A Little^‡	Lisa Timpf	Radon Journal
		Let Us Dream	Myna Chang	Small Wonders
		As Does the Crow	Beth Cato	Uncanny Magazine
		Mass-Market Affair	Casey Aimer	StarLine*
2025	Long	The Blackthorn*	Mary Soon Lee	Dreams & Nightmares	^[67]^[68]
		When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation^†	Kyle Tran Myrhe	Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
		The Museum of Etymology^‡	F.J. Bergmann	StarLine*
		The House of Mulberry Leaves	Ryu Ando	Crow & Cross Keys
		The Final Trick	Angela Liu	Strange Horizons
		Medicine For The Ailing Mortal, as Told in Seven Stories	Silvaticus Riddle	The Fairy Tale Magazine
	Short	Lost Ark*	F.J. Bergmann	Space & Time Magazine
		A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole^†	Pedro Iniguez	StarLine*
		The Witch Recalls Her Craft^‡	Angel Leal	Uncanny
		Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean	Sandra Kasturi	Stanza Poetry Competition
		Generation Ship	Akua Lezli Hope	StarLine*
		The Last Valkyrie	Pat Masson	Forgotten Ground Regained