ashley beresch
Updates
A space to share news, recognitions, and other relevant miscellany.
June 2024 • Residency at the Lillian E. Smith Center in Clayton, GA.
April 2024 • Awarded the 2024 Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize.
September 2023 • Joined the curator team at Micro Podcast.
August 2023 • Shortlisted for the CRAFT Flash Fiction contest.
July 2023 • Hosted a blackout poetry workshop for Camp Soul City in Augusta, GA.
June 2023 • "Would You Rather" received first place in Apple in the Dark's Summer Flash contest, judged by author Chelsea T. Hicks.
May 2023 • First short fiction is published in The Fabulist.
May 2023 • Received first place for fiction + honorable mention for poetry and creative non-fiction at the Brannen Creative Writing Awards.
April 2023 • Received 2nd Place for Fiction in the Porter Fleming Literary Competition.
April 2023 • Presented at the 2023 CURIO Symposium. Awarded best presentation in Creative Research.
February 2023 • Competed in Augusta University Writer's Weekend "Writers In The Ring," a literary death-match hosted by Elissa Bassist, Chris Belden, and Latria Graham. A three-way tie.
January 2022 • Published in Young Scholars in Writing, Volume 19.
April 2021 • "A House to Grow Up In" received Georgia Southern's First Year Writing award for personal essay.