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Award Category: 2025 Short Poem (Rhysling Award)

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Displaying awards and nominations for this category for 2025. You can also view all awards and nominations for this category for all years.
2025
--- Finalists -------
* A Black Hole Is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole Pedro Iniguez
* A War of Words Marie Brennan
* After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel P. H. Low
* aftermath, in the city a diary Peter Roberts (1952-)
* Battle of the Sexless Colleen Anderson
* Bobblehead Carol Gyzander
* Born Against Teeth Tiffany Morris
* Brandy Old Fashioned Amelia Gorman
* Chronoverse Jeffery Allen Tobin
* Colony Xaxbara 4 Kimberly Kuchar
* Dodging the Bullet Lisa M. Bradley
* Fractal Jack Cooper
* from venus, to mars Cailín Frankland
* Generation Ship Akua Lezli Hope
* Gravitation Is Only a Theory Alan Katerinsky
* In the Future, AI Will Make Ofrendas Felicia Martinez
* Lesson's End Brian Hugenbruch
* Let's Pretend It's a Bird Roger Dutcher
* Lost Ark F. J. Bergmann
* Make me a sandwich Marisca Pichette
* New Homestead Akua Lezli Hope
* Notes from a Centaur's Curator Gwen Sayers
* Odysseus's Apology to Anticlea Anastasios Mihalopoulos
* One Bright Moment Kate Boyes
* One Large Deep Fried Thistle Burr Jonathan Olfert
* Our Combusted Planet Brian Garrison
* Pa(i)ncakes Dex Drury
* Right to Shelter Mary Soon Lee
* Rising Star David C. Kopaska-Merkel
* Robin's Rest Lisa Timpf
* Sea and Sky Meagan Branning
* Song Through Wires Jacqueline West
* Sonnet for the Unbeliever Paul Chuks
* Space Psychiatry Anna Cates
* The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death Ali Trotta
* The Last Valkyrie Pat Masson
* The Last Woman Anna Taborska
* The Oarfish Bride Amelia Gorman
* The Old Tradition Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi
* the time travel body Angel Leal
* The Witch Recalls Her Craft Angel Leal
* Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean Sandra Kasturi
* Transhumanist Classroom Pedro Iniguez
* traveling through breaths Eva Papasoulioti
* Trinary Amabilis O'Hara
* Trip Through the Robot Carolyn Clink and David Clink
* Visions of Manhattan Ian Li
* We Carry Our Ghosts to the Stars Richard Leis
* What Dragons Didn't Do Mary Soon Lee
* You Are a Monster Beth Cato
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
* #LANDBACK Marsheila Rockwell
* A Golden Flame// The Beheading of a Ram Nnadi Samuel
* Abstain from Spinning, Beauty Dyani Sabin
* Amateur Mycologists Mariel Herbert
* Briar Tea Party Gretchen Tessmer
* Bridge of Grass, Bridge of Suspension Katherine Quevedo
* Dietary Advice P. S. Cottier
* Dragon Flight Vince Gotera
* Dragonette Wendy Van Camp
* Dryad's Temple Colleen Anderson
* Flyaway Eva Papasoulioti
* Ghost Land of Giants Linda D. Addison
* Gingerbread Stephanie M. Wytovich
* Grendelsong: A Merewif's Lament Carina Bissett
* Here's Flowers for You Diana Webb
* Liminal Ayana Walker
* Menomin's Dragon Sandra J. Lindow
* Mourning Person Anuja Mitra
* Poor Unfortunate Souls R. Thursday
* Questions Asked of the Scrying Sword During the Quest for the Princess Elis Montgomery
* Ravens Vonnie Winslow Crist
* SOS Simon MacCulloch
* Speak of the Wolf Silvatiicus Riddle
* Stargazing Stewart C. Baker
* Storm-Stolen Elena Sunyoung Kang
* The Future We Build Today Jenny Thompson
* The Tentacular Crown Bernardo Villela
* The Woodcutter Anna Cates
* there are no taxis for the dead Angela Liu
* Time Lord Thief Vince Gotera
* Totality Mary A. Turzillo
* Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father Angel Leal
* You can't just sit there crafting hopefully-viral insta posts and expect a dragon to show up (tl; dnr: how to catch a dragon c. 2024) Melissa Ridley Elmes
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