PRESS & HONORS

Recipient of 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Non-fiction
Winner, 2022 ASJA Writing Award for First-Person Essay, for “Grief Work”
“Ashland alumna, faculty member each honored by Ohio Arts Council,” Ashland University News, April 2022
“Dayton-area artists receive excellence awards from Ohio Arts Council,” Dayton Daily News, Feb. 10, 2022
“Roadmap to a Fire” essay named 2020 “Best of the Nest” by Pigeon Pages.
Winner, 2017 Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant
“WR grad wins major writing award,” Sandusky Register, July 9, 2017.
“Dayton woman wins major writing prize,” Dayton Daily News, July 7, 2017.
“30 Under 30 with Ashley Bethard,” News Media Alliance, July 28, 2016.
Interview with Rappahannock Review, Issue 1.4. “Contributor Spotlight: Interview with Ashley Bethard.”
“Of Blood,” essay nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Rappahannock Review.
“This Is Not A Pipe” featured in “Best of Hot Metal Bridge” anthology; Fall 2011.
“I Am Speaking the Language” selected as a Fwriction Review “Story of the Day,” October 10, 2011.
“This Is Not A Pipe,” nominated by Hot Metal Bridge for Dzanc Books “Best of the Web 2011” Anthology.
Runner-up, “Shape in a Misshapen World” Festival of the Arts literary contest in prose for my nonfiction piece, “This is Not a Pipe,” May 2009.
Recipient of Ashland University Undergraduate Creative Writing Award in Prose, April 2008.