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The SFPA was established as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 by author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin. [6] Elizabeth Chater served as the first president of the SFPA, followed by Gene Wolf. [7] Other SFPA presidents have included Deborah P Kolodji, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Bryan D. Dietrich, and, most recently, Bryan Thao Worra. [8]
The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. The award name was dubbed by Andrew Joron in reference to a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth". [1]
The award was established in 2006 as a counterpoint to the Rhysling Award, which is given by the same organization to horror, fantasy, or science fiction poems of any length. Poems are submitted to the association by the poets, from which approximately 30 are chosen by an editor to be published in an anthology each fall.
Science fiction poetry's main sources are the sciences and the literary movement of science fiction prose. [9]Scientifically-informed verse, sometimes termed poetry of science, is a branch that has either scientists and their work or scientific phenomena as its primary focus; it may also use scientific jargon as metaphor. [10]
Group members have also created a few of their own poetry forms, such as the contrail and the Fibonacci-No-Haiku (based upon the Fibonacci number), written SF poetry based on other short poetry forms such as the cinquain, and experimented with a number of collaborative poetry forms such as science fiction renga and stellarenga.
Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins; November 18, 1936 – January 27, 2015) was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science ...
Eye to the Telescope is a quarterly online journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, [1] which publishes speculative poetry, including science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and poetry. [2] It was established in 2011. [3] It is a theme-based periodical [4] with rotating editors. The first issue, in May 2011, had the theme "The ...
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and commonly known as SFWA (/ ˈ s ɪ f w ə / or / ˈ s ɛ f w ə /) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. While SFWA is based in the United States, its membership is open to ...