The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the winners of this year’s Elgin Award for Books and Dwarf Star Awards for Short Speculative Poetry.
Elgin Awards
Dwarf Star
The winners of the Rhysling Award, presented for speculative poetry by the SFPA, have been announced.
The Rhysling nominations have been been announced the the Science Fiction Poetry Association. The Rhyslings are presented to recognize excellence in speculative verse. This year saw a record breaking number of nominees in the two categories, Long Poem (more than 50 lines or 500 words) and Short Poem (fewer than 50 lines or 500 words). The list has 93 Short Poems and 60 long poems on it and can be found at the link below.
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The Science Fiction Poetry Association is in the middle of a controversy after announcing that it was declining the nomination of the poem “I Will Be Your Grave,” by Tlotlo Tsamaase in the Long Form category as not containing enough speculative material. The poem was nominated by A.J. Odasso, one of the editors of Strange Horizons and appeared on the SFPA’s page as a nomination prior to its rejection. Accusations have been made at SFPA, which has admitted that they failed to follow their own policy prior to removing the poem.
The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the winners of this year’s Elgin Award for Books and Dwarf Star Awards for Short Speculative Poetry.
Elgin Awards
Dwarf Star
The winners of the Rhysling Award, presented for speculative poetry by the SFPA, have been announced.
Two previously unknown poems by J. R. R. Tolkien have been found in an issue of the Abingdon Chronicle, published by Our Lady’s School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire in 1936. References to the poems was found by Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond, who contacted the school where a copy of the magazine was eventually discovered. One of the poems is a Christmas poem, the other was reworked into a poem appearing in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the winners of this year’s Elgin Award for Books and Dwarf Star Awards for Short Speculative Poetry.
Elgin Awards
Dwarf Star
The Science Fiction Poetry Association has named two new Poetry Grand Masters, the first since 2010. Marge Ballif Simon and Steve Sneyd have received the honor for their years of publishing poetry in a variety of places. Simon’s work has previously received the Bram Stoker Award, the Rhysling Award, the Dwarf Stars Award, and the Strange Horizons Readers Award. In addition to publishing his own Poetry, Sneyd presents the annual DataDump Award and has published numerous other poets.
The winners of the Rhysling Award, presented for speculative poetry by the SFPA, have been announced.