THE RASH AWARD IN POETRY
Patricia L. Hamilton, Trespass
THE RASH AWARD IN FICTION
Sam Grieve, We Are All Nobody
J. CALVIN KOONTS POETRY AWARD
MaryKate Powell, Night Drives and First Date
EDITORS’ PRIZE IN POETRY
Ilari Pass, Kaleidoscope in Place of Conversation
POETRY
Sarah Wood Anderson, Knitter’s Remorse
Carl Boon, 1947
Bill Brown, First Snow
Tommie Marie Cassen, Fragile Fingers
Jamie Crepeau, Type I
John Delaney, Briggs & Stratton
Nicholas Demski, Winter Is Coming
Timothy B. Dodd, When Astronauts Come from West Virginia
Matthew Dulany, April
Keith Dunlap, Soul Train
Samuel J. Fox, Owl Watching
Jonathan Greenhause, My Drab Office Metamorphs into a Tropical Forest
Brandon Greer, Wondering about Death
Maryanne Hannan, Zeitgeist
Tom Harper, What I Was
Lynn Hoggard, Bearing Witness
Lynn Marie Houston, Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Linda Imbler, Beautiful Ruin
Lowell Jaeger, Noise
Esther Whitman Johnson, Empty Bed
Richard Jones, Portraits
Janet Joyner, Bird Brain
Helga Kidder, Woman with Folded Arms
Lee Landau, Roberto and the Snow Globe
Marc Larock, On the Frozen Continent
Evalyn Lee, Weeping Wall
Martin H. Levinson, The Penitent Sea
Miles Liss, Christmas Morning, 2014
Melissa Madenski, After Your Death
Michael M. Marks, My Doppelgänger
Bruce McRae, Lull Before Storm
Steve Meador, From a Stone Ledge on Rabbit Mountain
Ashley Memory, Why I Love Used Books
Tom Montag, Father’s Son
Jed Myers, Love’s Home
Jennifer Neely, Unusual Pathos
Shannon Leigh O’Neil, Salvage
Alice Osborn, My Lost Son: Fastnet Race 1979
Richard King Perkins II, Pith and Gull
Anne M. Rashid, Near to Death
Francine Rubin, Utterance
Domenic Scopa, Swimming Pool
Claire Scott, Endings
L.B. Sedlacek, Magnolia Tree on High Street
Mark Smith, Starfish
Matthew J. Spireng, Sunrise, Assateague
David Starkey, The Road to Calvary
Jo Barbara Taylor, Wooing in the Ancient Gengii Tradition
Kory Wells, We Come Undone
John Sibley Williams, Waiting for the Body to Catch Up
Howard Winn, Neighbor
Lisa Zerkle, In Flight
FICTION
Heather Bell Adams, A Pop of Color
Gershon Ben-Avraham, The Ecstasy of Alma Leitner
John Brantingham, All of Those Boys Are Dead Now
Gregg Cusick, Holiday
Karen Di Prima, Of Guts and Glory
Kevin Fitton, Crashums
Alan Gartenhaus, Double Date
Linda Heuring, CTA Walkabout
John Kristofco, A Farther Place
Michael Phillips, Elegy for a Coward
Margaret Steiner, They
NONFICTION
Linda Bragg, My Sister’s Hands
Brett Busang, Baby Pictures, Sibling Unrest, and the Lotus Position
Chris Carbaugh, The Great American Ping Pong Ball Drop
Ron McFarland, War Games
Holly Morse-Ellington, What the Mechanic’s Wife Salvaged
COVER ARTWORK
Brian Michael Barbeito, Rusty Hinge