On 23 July, the Science Fiction Poetry Association corrected last week’s announcement of the winners of their 2011 Rhysling Awards. Mike Allen writes: “This is the first time, to my knowledge, that this has been done in SFPA’s history, but it had to be done; the original first and second place winners in the short category were both ineligible due to previous publication in 2009, facts that weren’t discovered until after the awards were first announced. (There are other issues connected to the original first place winner and how it won, though the ineligibility renders them technically moot.) My sympathy to SFPA’s new officers for having to start off their terms with a situation like this; my admiration goes out to them for handling it the way it needed to be handled.”
The actual winners of this year’s awards are:
Short Poem Category:
First Place: “Peach-Creamed Honey” by Amal El-Mohtar
Second Place: “Binary Creation Myth” by Karen Romanko
Third Place: “Dogstar Men” by C.S.E. Cooney
Long Poem Category:
First Place: “The Sea King’s Second Bride” by C.S.E. Cooney
Second Place: “Dark Rains Here and There” by Bruce Boston
Third Place: “Wreck-Diving the Starship” by Robert Frazier
This SFPA page list the correct winners, and has a link to the voting statistics.
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Below is the text of the original announcement, which we published on 18 July.
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David Lunde, Chariman of the Science Fiction Poetry Association‘s 2011 Rhysling Awards, announced the winners and runners-up this weekend at Readercon.
In the Short Poem Category, the winner is: “El Codex Chupacabra” by Juan Manuel Perez (first published in And Now the Nightmare Begins: the Horror Zine, Volume 1)
     2nd Place: “Welcome Home (The Nebulas Song)” by Janis Ian (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October-November 2010)
     3rd Place: “Peach Creamed Honey” by Amal El-Mohtar (Honey Month)
In the Long Poem Category, the winner is: “The Sea King’s Second Bride” by C.S.E. Cooney (Goblin Fruit, Spring 2010)
     2nd Place: “Dark Rains Here and There” by Bruce Boston (Dark Matters)
     3rd Place: “Wreck-Diving the Starship” by Robert Frazier (Dreams and Nightmares 87)
Cooney was present at the ceremony and performed her winning poem.
We listed the nominees in this article.