SPECIAL POETRY PRESENTATION
Ron Rash, Watauga County: 1962 and At Reid Hartley’s Junkyard
THE RASH AWARD IN FICTION
Leslee Becker, Such Friends
THE RASH AWARD IN POETRY
Patricia L. Hamilton, Puzzle
J. CALVIN KOONTS POETRY AWARD
Mallory Moore, Lessons and Old Friend Comes to Visit
Hannah Ray, Sea Glass and Unrhymable Fruit
EDITORS’ PRIZE IN POETRY
Summer Byers, In the Name of Victory
Aaron Hilton, System Failure
POETRY
Cathy Allman, I Can’t Tell You Why
Eleanor Altman, How to Peel an Egg
Ashlyn Arend, Sonnet for an Equinox
Gary Beck, Purchase Power II
Trudi Benford, With Reckless Abandon
Tim Bleecker, Six to Nine
Creighton Blinn, In Hindsight
Ace Boggess, Did Someone Flip a Switch on the Reality Machine?
Jona Colson, Prayer
Scott Dockery, Down on the Floor
Hollie Dugas, The Secret Lives of Figs
Gary Galsworth, Early On
Eric Greinke, White Nights
Judith Grissmer, We Want to Believe
Megan Nemise Hall, Oral History
Carol Hamilton, Flemish Light
Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Confession
Robert W. Hill, Cwms and Swales, Dingles and Stars
Lowell Jaeger, Dinosaurs
Therin Johns, Natural Killer
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Civilian Conservation Corps
Lee Landau, Foreign Vocabulary
Richard Lebovitz, The Lost Family of Belz
John Linstrom, Ice Sheet Archive
Iris Litt, Early Stages
Gregory Lobas, This Is How I Find You
Sean Madden, The Jam Session
Sarah McCann, Children Playing at Hell
Kevin J. McDaniel, Gray Heron
Alex McIntosh, 10,000 Things
Sarah Merrow, Bricolage
Cameron Morse, Leaves of Ivy
Stephany L. Newberry-Davis, Daddy
Jeanne Obbard, Reindeer, Lightning
Luba Ostashevsky, Rituals Done to Us
Rosemary Peek, Drought
George Perreault, Chamisa
Barry Peters, Vermeer Construction
Diana Pinckney, Two Comedians, 1965
Phill Provance, Of Beauty & Things
Aparna Sanyal, Hopeful
Joyce Schmid, How My Father Got to Watch Me Grow Up
Laura Schulkind, The Workshop
Claire Scott, Unexcused Absence
Maureen Sherbondy, Transitions
Duncan Smith, New Ground
Kerri Vinson Snell, Brittle Creek
LeRoy Sorenson, The Tear Down
Matthew J. Spireng, Blame It on the Rain
Lisa St. John, Particle Song
Max Stephan, Truffles (Tuber Magnatum)
John Stupp, Joe Louis Runs the Voodoo Down
Jo Barbara Taylor, Sunday at Kokomo Federal Correctional Facility
Allen Tullos, Odd, Numbered Days
Bill Van Every, On Finding Animals in the Clouds
Sarah Weeks, Company
John Sibley Williams, No More Ocean
FICTION
Estefania Acquaviva, Calle La Rueda
Heather Bell Adams, The Topaz Creek Fugitive
Christopher Allen, Interrupted
Nancy Brock, One Summer
Davis Enloe, Big Man to Little Man
D Ferrara, The Bookkeeper’s Bench
Kathleen Glassburn, Clover’s Latest Caper
Steve Lambert, A Song for Enid Pound
Catherine Moore, Until It Thunders
Ray Morrison, No One’s Ghost But My Own
Eric Rampson, Hazards
NONFICTION
J.A. Bernstein, Morning Sun
Pamela S. Carter, Season’s End
Olaf Kroneman, Fighting to Heal
ARTWORK
Rollin Jewett, Blue Door