The results of the 2025 Rash Awards in Fiction and Poetry have been announced.
2025 Rash Award in Fiction
Judged by Jason Mott
Winner
Alan Sincic, “Pride of Place”
Honorable Mentions
Ken Kelly, “Death’s Burlesque”
Tyler Stallings, “Desert Currency”
Other Finalists
George Bandy, “How I Made Good”
Nancy Brock, “Hunting Season”
Mindy Friddle, “The Broken Boat”
Jarrett Kaufman, “We Suffer the Fire”
Sherry Shenoda, “NextCare Pediatrics”
Maureen Sherbondy, “The Men”
Susan Levi Wallach, “Julian in the Desert”
2025 Rash Award in Poetry
Judged by Nickole Brown
Winner
Hollie Dugas, “A Seahorse’s Short Manifesto on Romance”
Honorable Mentions
Peggy Heitmann, “All My Life I’ve Hungered for a Pretty Singing Voice”
John Schneider, “But the Wailing Beneath It”
Matthew J. Spireng, “On Learning of the Death of W.S. Merwin”
Other Finalists
George Bandy, “Wherein Herein We Lie”
Katie Barakat, “She Came from Whitakers”
Tim Barnes, “The Stone That Stayed Behind”
Peter Bergquist, “Dichotomy”
Barbara Conrad, “Inheritance”
Anna Egeland, “Cicada Season”
Daniel Ginsburg, “The Trains Always Run on Time”
Elizabeth W. Jackson, “Before Light Comes”
Terri Kirby Erickson, “The Coffin Maker’s Son”
Gary Lark, “Pebble Song”
Dianne Mason, “Small Steps”
Sally Mohney, “Salt River Elegy”
William Rieppe Moore, “Ode to the Sun from Forest Acres to Muddy Branch”
Lupe Penn, “Southern Air”
Kimberly Simms, “Wende”
Wally Swist, “New Year’s Walk”
Jo Barbara Taylor, “Flapping of Wings”
Allen Tullos, “Brunt”
Lisa Underwood, “Linthead”
Avra Wing, “Amoremare”