2015 Contest

 

RASH AWARD IN POETRY

WINNER

Patricia L. Hamilton of Jackson, Tennessee, for “Trespass”

HONORABLE MENTION

Ashley Memory of Raleigh, North Carolina, for “Why I Love Used Books”

Melissa Madenski of Neskowin, Oregon, for “After Your Death”

OTHER FINALISTS

Matthew Dulany of Bethesda, Maryland, for “April”

Samuel J. Fox of Statesville, North Carolina, for “Owl Watching”

Maryanne Hannan of Delmar, New York, for “Zeitgeist”

Lynn Marie Houston of North Haven, Connecticut, for “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”

Esther Whitman Johnson of Roanoke, Virginia, for “Empty Bed”

Janet Joyner of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for “Bird Brain”

Helga Kidder of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for “Woman with Folded Arms”

Lee Landau of Minnetonka, Minnesota, for “Roberto and the Snow Globe”

Alice Osborn of Raleigh, North Carolina, for “My Lost Son: Fastnet Race 1979”

Richard King Perkins II of Crystal Lake, Illinois, for “Pith and Gull”

Anne M. Rashid of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for “Near to Death”

Claire Scott of Oakland, California, for “Endings”

Matthew Spireng of Kingston, New York, for “Sunrise, Assateague”

Jo Barbara Taylor of Raleigh, North Carolina, for “Wooing in Ancient Gengii Tradition”

Kory Wells of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for “We Come Undone”

Lisa Zerkle of Charlotte, North Carolina, for “In Flight”

 

RASH AWARD IN FICTION

WINNER

Sam Grieve of Darien, Connecticut, for “We Are All Nobody”

HONORABLE MENTION

Heather Adams of Raleigh, North Carolina, for “A Pop of Color”

John Brantingham of Claremont, California, for “All of Those Boys Are Dead Now”

OTHER FINALISTS

Linda Heuring of Carpentersville, Illinois, for “CTA Walkabout”

Alli Marshall of Asheville, North Carolina, for “Night Pageant”

Gregg Cusick of Durham, North Carolina, for “Nothing About Us, Without Us, Is for Us”

Karen Di Prima of Oreland, Pennsylvania, for “Of Guts and Glory”

Jon Kerstetter of Iowa City, Iowa, for “Remembering the Carnival”

Jennifer Weiss of Cary, North Carolina, for “The Kriah”

Margaret Steiner of Asheville, North Carolina, for “They”

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