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 |
Story Books and Treasure Maps* | Steve Eng | Equinox |
1980 | Long | The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes* | Andrew Joron | New Worlds | [9] |
Short | The Migration of Darkness* | Peter Payack | Asimov's Science Fiction |
Encased in the Amber of Eternity* | Robert Frazier | The Future at War |
1981 | Long | On Science Fiction* | Thomas M. Disch | Triquarterly | [10] |
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 | [11] |
Short | On the Speed of Sight* | Raymond DiZazzo | Uranus |
1983 | Long | Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide* | Adam Cornford | Velocities | [12] |
Short | In Computers* | Alan P. Lightman | Science 82 |
1984 | Long | Saul's Death: Two Sestina's* | Joe W. Haldeman | Omni | [13] |
Short | Two Sonnets* | Helen Ehrlich | Science 83 |
1985 | Long | A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)* | Siv Cedering | Science 84 | [14] |
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 | [15] |
Short | The Neighbour's Wife* | Susan Palwick | Amazing Stories |
1987 | Long | Daedalus* | W. Gregory Stewart | Star*Line | [16] |
Short | A Dream of Heredity* | John Calvin Rezmerski | Tales of the Unanticipated |
Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope* | Jonathan V. Post | Star*Line |
1988 | Long | White Trains* | Lucius Shepard | Night Cry | [17] |
Short | The Nightmare Collector* | Bruce Boston | Night Cry |
Rocky Road to Hoe* | Suzette Haden Elgin | Star*Line |
1989 | Long | In the Darkened Hours* | Bruce Boston | The Nightmare Collector, 2AM | [18] |
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station* | John M. Ford | Invitation to Camelot, Ace Books |
Short | Salinity* | Robert Frazier | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
1990 | Long | dear spacemen* | Patrick McKinnon | Vice Versa | [19] |
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 | [20] |
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 | [21] |
Short | Song of the Martian Cricket* | David Lunde | Asimov's Science Fiction |
1993 | Long | To Be from Earth* | William J. Daciuk | Xizquil | [22] |
Short | Will* | Jane Yolen | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry |
1994 | Long | Basement Flats* | W. Gregory Stewart | Air Fish, Catseye Books | [23] |
Robert Frazier |
Short | Spacer's Compass* | Bruce Boston | Specula, Talisman |
Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over* | Jeff VanderMeer | The Silver Web |
1995 | Long | Pilot, Pilot* | David Lunde | Star*Line | [5] |
A Life, Considered in Thirds, Set Against a Galactic Collapse | W. Gregory Stewart | Star*Line |
Partial People | Terry Bisson | Bears Discover Fire, Tor Books |
Homeflight | Alan Rice Osborn | Star*Line |
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 | Star*Line |
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] |
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 | Star*Line |
Short | Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother* | John Grey | Star*Line |
Shaman† | Charlee Jacob | The Catbird Seat |
It's All Time-Machines, She Said‡ | Timons Esaias | Star*Line |
On Reading Bradbury‡ | Sandra Kasturi | Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books |
1999 | Long | Confessions of a Body Thief* | Bruce Boston | Talisman | [25] |
Short | egg horror poem* | Laurel Winter | Asimov's Science Fiction |
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 | Star*Line |
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 | Star*Line |
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 | Star*Line |
Trouble With Math‡ | Roger Dutcher | Star*Line |
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] |
Mike Allen |
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 | Star*Line |
Rich & Strange‡ | Ann K. Schwader | Strange Horizons |
2006 | Long | The Tin Men* | Kendall Evans | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry | [32] |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
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 | Star*Line |
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 |
Short | Songs to an Ancient City* | Amal El-Mohtar | Mythic Delirium |
Spell† | Samantha Henderson | Goblin Fruit |
The Future‡ | Billy Collins | The New Yorker |
2010 | Long | In the Astronaut Asylum* | Kendall Evans | Mythic Delirium | [36][37] |
Samantha Henderson |
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 | Star*Line |
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 |
Kendall Evans |
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 | Star*Line | [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 | Star*Line |
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 | Star*Line |
Alternate Genders‡ | Mary Soon Lee | Mithila Review |
Short | Advice to a Six-Year-Old* | Mary Soon Lee | Star*Line |
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 |
2020 | Long | "Heliobacterium daphnephilum"* | Rebecca Buchanan | Star*Line | [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 | Star*Line |
Short | Summer Time(lessness)* | Linda D. Addison | Star*Line |
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 |
Mary Turzillo |
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 | Star*Line |
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 |