
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)