{"id":386,"date":"2013-02-17T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T06:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-02-17T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T06:31:04","slug":"2013-rhysling-awards-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/17\/2013-rhysling-awards-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Rhysling Awards underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rhysling Awards for 2013, awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association<\/a>, are currently underway, with a deadline for nominations of 28 February. These annual awards, with a long poem (50+ lines) and short poem category,\u00a0are for\u00a0work\u00a0published in the previous\u00a0year, nominated by members of the association, and ultimately voted on by them.\u00a0The details of the process are\u00a0actually somewhat unusual. After members of the association have\u00a0gone through their nomination\u00a0process, an anthology of all the nominated work is published, and the membership then votes on the basis of what is in the anthology.<\/p>\n

This year, the Rhysling Awards are especially salient in my household because one of the poems that has already been nominated<\/a> in the “long” category is “Their Cold Eyes Pierced My Skin”<\/a> by Jenny Blackford <\/a>– first published in The Pedestal Magazine<\/em><\/a>, and so now to be reprinted in the 2013 Rhysling nominees anthology. It is up against work\u00a0by some very well known people in the field, and I’m sure that the\u00a0anthology will be of high quality when we see it… but who knows how it will all pan out?\u00a0 In any event, it’s an honour for a poet to\u00a0achieve this much recognition for anything she’s written.<\/p>\n

(You might think I’m biased, but I’m here to tell you that “Their Cold Eyes Pierced My Skin” is\u00a0an extraordinary –\u00a0linguistically and emotionally powerful – narrative poem. Do check\u00a0it out if you haven’t read it previously.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rhysling Awards for 2013, awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association, are currently underway, with a deadline for nominations of 28 February. These annual awards, with a long poem (50+ lines) and short poem category,\u00a0are for\u00a0work\u00a0published in the previous\u00a0year, nominated by members of the association, and ultimately voted on by them.\u00a0The details of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,98,30],"tags":[115,118,175],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-2","category-books-2","category-culture","tag-jenny-blackford","tag-poetry","tag-rhysling-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}