# Rhysling Award

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". 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.
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. From 2005 to 2011, the Awards were presented in July at a ceremony at Readercon. In 2022, eligibilty guidelines were changed to exclude poems also nominated for the Dwarf Stars Award or the Elgin Awards.
In 2005, the SFPA published an anthology of the winning poems, The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase.

## Winners and Runners Up

From 1978 to 1994, only a first-place winner was awarded. In 1995, a number of runners up were named and in 1996, a number of "Honorable Mentions" were given. Since 1997, 2nd and 3rd place have also been honored, and from 2020 onward, "Honorable Mentions" have been mentioned once again.

### 1970s

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

### 1980s

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

### 1990s

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

### 2000s

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

### 2010s

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

### 2020s

| Year | Category | Poem | Author(s) | Publication |
| 2020 | Long | "Heliobacterium daphnephilum"* | Rebecca Buchanan | Star*Line |
| 2020 | Long | The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly$^†$ | Theodora Goss | Uncanny |
| 2020 | Long | The Macabre Modern$^‡$ | Kyla Lee Ward | The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities, P'rea Press |
| 2020 | Long | Ode to the Artistic Temperament$^‡$ | Michael H. Payne | Silver Blade |
| 2020 | Short | Taking, Keeping* | Jessica J. Horowitz | Apparition Lit |
| 2020 | Short | when my father reprograms my mother {$^†$ | Caroline Mao | Strange Horizons |
| 2020 | Short | Creation: Dark Matter Dating App$^‡$ | Sandra J. Lindow | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2020 | Short | 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 |
| 2021 | Long | A Song from Bedlam (with apologies to Christopher Smart)$^†$ | Nike Sulway | Liminality |
| 2021 | Long | Devilish Incarnations$^‡$ | Bruce Boston | Star*Line |
| 2021 | Short | Summer Time(lessness)* | Linda D. Addison | Star*Line |
| 2021 | Short | Why did white people conquer the world for spices and then never use them?$^†$ | R. Thursday | Drunk Monkeys |
| 2021 | Short | Darning$^‡$ | Sandra J. Lindow | Asimov's Science Fiction |
| 2022 | Long | The Bookstore* | Beth Cato | New Myths |
| 2022 | Long | Reservation Fairy Tales 101—Final Exam$^†$ | Marshella Rockwell | Augur Magazine |
| 2022 | Long | Alexander's Babylon$^‡$ | Marge Simon | Victims, Weasel Press |
| 2022 | Long | Alexander's Babylon$^‡$ | Mary Turzillo | Victims, Weasel Press |
| 2022 | Long | The Captain Flies | Avi Silver | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2022 | Long | Medusa Gets a Haircut | Theodora Goss | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2022 | Short | Confessions of a Spaceport AI* | Mary Soon Lee | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2022 | Short | Gravity (some things that fly)$^†$ | Geoffrey A. Landis | Space and Time |
| 2022 | Short | The Butterfly Affect$^‡$ | Linda D. Addison | Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology, Brigids Gate Press |
| 2022 | Short | our translucent bodies | Devin Miller | Mermaids Monthly |
| 2022 | Short | dry land | Maria Zocolla | Strange Horizons |
| 2022 | Short | Exquisite | Lee Murray | Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, Yuriko Publishing |
| 2023 | Long | Machine (r)Evolution* | Colleen Anderson | Radon Journal |
| 2023 | Long | The Bone Tree$^†$ | Rebecca Buchanan | Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution, Jackanapes Press |
| 2023 | Long | Igbo Landing II$^‡$ | Akua Lezli Hope | Black Fire—This Time, Aquarius Press |
| 2023 | Long | Herbaceous Citadel | Avra Margariti | The Fairy Tale Magazine |
| 2023 | Long | Living in Rubble | Gerri Leen | Eccentric Orbits 3, Dimensionfold Publishing |
| 2023 | Long | The Thing About Stars | Avra Margariti | Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Black Spot Books |
| 2023 | Short | Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon* | Jennifer Crow | Star*Line |
| 2023 | Short | In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White* | Terese Mason Piere | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2023 | Short | Bitch Moon$^†$ | Sarah Grey | Nightmare Magazine |
| 2023 | Short | First Contact$^‡$ | Lisa Timpf | Eye to the Telescope |
| 2023 | Short | The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End$^‡$ | Amelia Gorman | The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, Mind's Eye Publications |
| 2023 | Short | Field Notes from the Anthropocene | Priya Chand | Nightmare Magazine |
| 2023 | Short | Near the end, your mother tells you she's been seeing someone | Shannon Connor Winward | SFPA Poetry Contest |
| 2023 | Short | 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 |
| 2024 | Long | The Witch Makes Her To-Do List$^†$ | Theodora Goss | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2024 | Long | An Interrogation About A Monster During Sleep Paralysis$^‡$ | Angela Liu | Strange Horizons |
| 2024 | Long | Pilot | Akua Lezli Hope | Black Joy Unbound, BLF Press |
| 2024 | Long | Cradling Fish | Laura Ma | Strange Horizons |
| 2024 | Long | Archivist of a Lost World | Gerri Leen | Eccentric Orbits |
| 2024 | Short | No One Now Remembers* | Geoffrey A. Landis | Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| 2024 | Short | Language as a Form of Breath$^†$ | Angel Leal | Apparition Lit |
| 2024 | Short | The Day We All Died, A Little$^‡$ | Lisa Timpf | Radon Journal |
| 2024 | Short | Let Us Dream | Myna Chang | Small Wonders |
| 2024 | Short | As Does the Crow | Beth Cato | Uncanny Magazine |
| 2024 | Short | Mass-Market Affair | Casey Aimer | Star*Line |