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2025 Rash Award in Fiction and Poetry

The Broad River Review invites submissions to the 2025 Rash Awards in Fiction and Poetry. Jason Mott will serve as fiction judge, while Nickole Brown will serve as the poetry judge.

Rash Award entries will be accepted from February 1 through April 15, 2025. The full contest rules and submission portal are linked below.

Beginning February 1, 2025, the Broad River Review will also be reading general submissions. The general submission window closes on April 1, 2025.

RASH AWARDS

What are the Rash Awards?

In 2010, the Broad River Review began two new contests, called the Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron Rash, a 1976 graduate of Gardner-Webb University.  Rash’s first published work appeared in the pages of this literary review (a poem, “Last Night’s Ride” and a story, “Turtle Meat”).  Rash grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, home to Gardner-Webb University, and earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Gardner-Webb and Clemson universities, respectively.