| 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]
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, eligibilty guidleines were changed to exclude peoms also nominated 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]
- ^ a b David Langford, "Rhysling Award." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 3rd edition (online). Ed. John Clute, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls. 2013. Accessed 19 February 2013
- ^ a b "New Rhysling Award Guidelines". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen, ed. (2005). The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase. Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books. p. 170 pp. ISBN 0-8095-1162-2.
This collection presents more than twenty-five years of the best poetry in the field of speculative literature.
- ^ Elizabeth Barrette, Review: The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase, edited by Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen, Strange Horizons, 8 February 2006 (accessed 16 Sept. 2016)