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
Finalist, 2019 Puerto del Sol Prose & Poetry Contest, for “Fire Escape”
Finalist, 2018 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"
Pushcart Prize Nomination from Black Fox Literary for "The Next One After the Last One"
Fiction
“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
"To Shove or Not To Shove Jillian Freitag" in Volume One Magazine
Nonfiction
"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