The results of the 2023 Rash Awards in Fiction and Poetry have been announced, judged by Jen Fawkes and Glenis Redmond.
2023 Rash Award in Fiction
Judged by Jen Fawkes
Winner
Rebecca Godwin, “Egg Timer”
Honorable Mentions
Marianne Leek, “Resurrecting Harleigh”
Ray Morrison, “Empty Sky”
Other Finalists
Gilbert Allen, “God’s Second Chance”
Nancy Brock, “Porch Rocker”
Billy Gee, “Peanut Butter Balls and the Unanswered Letter”
Barry Peters, “JohnnyMac!”
David Poston, “A Valediction”
Eric Rasmussen, “Ms. Breyer’s Last Four Days”
Maureen Sherbondy, “The Mystery Shopper”
Larry Thacker, “A Good View”
L. Vocem, “Deportation Papers”
2023 Rash Award in Poetry
Judged by Glenis Redmond
Winner
Marina Hope Wilson, “Origin”
Honorable Mentions
Daniel Ginsburg, “The Carpet”
Carol Krauss, “Those Just Beyond the Backyard”
Other Finalists
Lawrence Ernest Bridges, “Watching TV”
Anne Bucey, “Canebreak”
Alexandra Burack, “The Eighth Child”
Sharon Charde, “Love Me Do”
Leonardo Chung, “The Last Time I Stepped Foot into a Café”
Karen Luke Jackson, “Plumbed”
Gary Lark, “Gifts”
Amy Lerman, “Variations on Kubler-Ross When You’re 25 and Your Boyfriend Dies”
Maria Palumbo, “Frames”
Elisabeth Preston-Hsu, “He Who Wanted to Taste Gibraltar”
Xiaoqui Qiu, “Woman on a High Stool, Matisse, Las Vegas”
Kelly Sargent, “Seed Fruit”
Cassidy Shao, “Seventh Grade Science”
Matthew J. Spireng, “For a Friend Hospitalized after a Fall from His Roof”
Max Stephan, “A Requiem for Sylvia Plath’s “Mushrooms”
Jo Barbara Taylor, “Wednesday Concert”
Lucinda Trew, “Premainderman”
Allan Tullos, “Silver Queen”
Pamela Wax, “England Has a Minister of Loneliness Now”
Bob Wickless, “Reading Poetry on a Stage Where Chet Baker Once Played”
Christy Wise, “Goodwill”
Janice Zerfas, “Albino Deer”