2024

COVER PHOTOGRAPHY

James Reynolds, True Blue Sunrise

THE RASH AWARD IN FICTION

Taylor Brown, The Trembling Earth

THE RASH AWARD IN POETRY

Summer Hardinge, Contents of Lincoln’s Pockets

THE J. CALVIN KOONTS POETRY AWARD

Jennifer Armstrong, The Stars Tell Me Your Name

THE FOOTHILLS WRITING AWARD

May Tate, A Portrait of Many Colors

POETRY

Sharon Ackerman, Perry County, 1968

Tobi Alfier, Unlocked Room

George Bandy, For the God No Longer Known

Ali Beheler, Looming

Peter Bergquist, Columbus Day Storm

Mirande Bissell, Remember: You Can Call Me

Dorothy Howe Brooks, Time Like a Rabbit

Sara Burge, Invisible Sea

Sharon Charde, For the Longest Time

Patty Cole, Am I Part of All This?

Barbara Conrad, Reincarnation

Lauren Crawford, Gone

Kristin W. Davis, Against Resilience

Jessica de Koninck, Convention, Atlantic City, 2019

Memory Derthick, Letter from the Garden, Pocked with Melt

Luke Eldredge, Growth Itself Degradates the Soul

Melissa Knox Evans, Milk and Fire

Joseph Geskey, Liminality

Daniel Ginsburg, The Officers’ Club

124Keith Gorman, Frankie Baby

Cordelia Hanemann, Homage to the Colonel

Daryl Herring, Stigmata in Nature

J.D. Hibbitts, Tobacco Farmhand, Age 11

Jefferson Holdridge, Sic Semper

Jeanne Julian, Shortfall (Family Edition)

Elina Kumra, The Realm of a Deer’s Gaze

Richard Lebovitz, The Pianist

Philip Andrew Lisi, Order of Operations

Calista Malone, Alligator Point, Florida

Dianne Mason, Easter at Enchanted Rock

Andrew Mauzey, Exit the Ocean

Joan Mazza, Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book

Robert McCall, Sunday Burning

John Penola, New Teacher

John Schneider, Selvedge

Claire Scott, Where to Begin Again

Maureen Sherbondy, Chopin Behind the Register at Piggly Wiggly

Matthew J. Spireng, Landscape

Max Stephan, Transience

Mark Strohschein, Summer of Sweet Red Wine

Bradley R. Strahan, Memento

Lila Robinett Tindall, Backwoods Baptist

Rachel Toalson, At Odds

Lucinda Trew, Remainderman

Jessi Waugh, Child of Divorce

Bob Wickless, Feathers

Michael T. Young, Plangent Souls Molly Zhu, Middle School

FICTION

Gilbert Allen, Buying into Belladonna

Glenn Armocida, Porch Time

George Bandy, The Things Visitors Carry Away

Daniel Bay, The Sidewalks Around Norbert J.

Samantha Marie Daniels, Yellow

Nathanael Green, The Shepherd

Patricia Ljutic, Life’s Work

Joseph Mills, Krispy Kreme

Kristina Moore, Nothing Tonight

Ray Morrison, Mother’s Day

Erika Sheshadri, The Duchess

Jamie Simpher, Unfinished Stories

John Thomson, Light of the Evening Sun

Clay Waters, The Hike

Nick T. Watson, Green-Eyed Hannah, Fourteen Freckles

and a Pack of Garrapiñadas

Herb Zarov, Soul Mates

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Linda Campbell, What I Took with Me

Haley Gambrell, All That Remains

Jana Harris, Denning Up

Jeffrey Howard, I Want You to Know I’m Starting to Understand

River Kozhar, Feral

Ed McCourt, Subjective Impermanence (A Recipe Lost)

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