Editor’s Note: All of this year’s poetry published in the webzines was short form, thus, no long form nomination this time around.
UPDATE: This poem is now a finalist, having been voted into the Rhysling anthology.
Starship Sloane Publishing has nominated the following poem, published in 2024 and which appeared in The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review, Summer 2024 (issue #2), for this year’s Rhysling Award in the short form category: “Colony Xaxbara 4” by Kimberly Kuchar.
Best of luck to the nominee!
—The Editor