Welcome
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There are several notable Eric Rasmussens out there—a professional baseball player, a Shakespeare scholar, an MMA fighter, a Bay-area reporter (not clear on which bay), a hockey player, and many more. This Eric Rasmussen is a fiction author, editor, and high school English teacher. Thanks for visiting.
Writing
Awards
Winner, Jabberwock Review’s 2024 Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize in Fiction, for “Olfactory Love”
Winner, Blue Mesa Review’s 2022 Summer Fiction Contest, for “The King of Tremendous Pines”
Runner-up, North American Review’s 2022 Kurt Vonnegut Prize for “Love the Neighbors”
Finalist, The Florida Review’s 2025 Editor’s Award for Fiction, for “Warmer”
Finalist, Porter House Review’s 2024-2025 Editor's Prize, for “Underworld Party (with Goats)
Finalist, Narrative’s Fall 2024 Story Contest, for “Warmer”
Finalist, Wisconsin People & Ideas 2024 Fiction Contest, for “Underworld Party (with Goats)”
Short-listed, Masters Review 2023-2024 Winter Short Story Award for New Writers, for “Underworld Party (with Goats)”
Finalist, Broad River Review’s 2023 Rash Award for Fiction, for “Ms. Breyer’s Last Four Days”
Finalist, Third Coast’s 2022 Fiction Contest, for “Five-Star Medium”
Finalist, Bellingham Review’s 2022 Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, for “The King of Tremendous Pines”
Finalist, 2019 Puerto del Sol Prose & Poetry Contest, for “Fire Escape”
Finalist, 2017 Arkansas International's Emerging Writer's Prize, for "The Last of the Water"
Finalist, 2017 Gulf Stream Summer Fiction Contest, for "Another Time It Rained"
Nominated, Best Small Fictions 2022, for “Casey Who Exorcises People”
Nominated, 2017 Pushcart Prize for "The Next One After the Last One"
Fiction
“Warmer” in The Florida Review (forthcoming)
“Underworld Party (with Goats)”in Porter House Review (6/23/25)
“Five-Star Medium” in Third Coast (54, Fall/Winter 2023)
“Olfactory Love” in Jabberwock Review (45.1, Summer/Fall 2024)
“Dance Floor Rapture” in Eclectica Magazine (28.2, April/May 2024)
“Minutes from the First Condo Association Meeting after Bernard Murdered His Wife Helen in Unit 3C” in The Penn Review (73, Winter 2023)
“Ms. Breyer’s Last Four Days” in Broad River Review (55, 2023)
“Overwatering” in Jet Fuel Review (26, Fall 2023)
“The Fountain of Youth on Jasper” in Sky Island Journal (26, Fall 2023)
“Who Hates Acapella” in The Coachella Review (Summer 2023)
“The King of Tremendous Pines” in Blue Mesa Review (46)
“Love the Neighbors” in North American Review (307.2, Summer 2022)
“Meaningful Departures” in Cleaver
“The Irresistible Gobble” in The MacGuffin (37.3, Fall/Winter 2021)
Excerpt from Hockey Moms on the Black Fox Literary Blog
“Driving in This” in South 85 Journal
“Casey Who Exorcises People” in Okay Donkey Magazine
“Cleaner Houses” in Sequestrum
“Fire Escape” in New Limestone Review
“Chaperone” in Stoneboat (9.2, Spring 2019)
“The Last of the Water” in Crack the Spine
“When He Caught the Big One” in Magnolia Review
"Borrowed Cars" in South Carolina Review (50.2, Spring 2018)
"The First Time Without" in Five on the Fifth
"Another Time It Rained" in Gulf Stream
"The Hero on Squaw Lake" in Up North Lit
"Mr. Siler's Indiscretions" in Sundog Lit
"Everyone Must Do Great Things" in Forge Journal
"The Next One After the Last One" in Black Fox Literary Magazine
"Your Father Needs a Favor" in Pithead Chapel
"Prices So Low, They're a Steal" in Chariton Review (39.1, Spring 2016)
"Creating a Killer Homemade Halloween" in Hapax
"Boundaries" in Souvenir: A Journal
"Josh Rides the Bus" in Mulberry Fork Review (Spring 2016)
"To Shove or Not To Shove Jillian Freitag" in Volume One Magazine
Nonfiction
“Along for the Ride” in Volume One Magazine
“Five Eau Claire Summers” in Volume One Magazine
“Two Times on the Ice” in Volume One Magazine
“You Know You Want To” in Volume One Magazine
“History from the Passenger Seat” in Volume One Magazine
“Good Habits, Bad Timing” in Volume One Magazine
“The State of the Trees” in Volume One Magazine
"To Find the Time to Write" in Black Fox Literary Magazine
"What We Read to Write" in Sundog Lit
"From the Mouths of Dogs: A Discussion With the Author and His Dog" in Brevity