“What Was Sent,”(story) Scoundrel Time, Spring 2023

• Awarded Scoundrel Times Editor's Prize:

“‘Letters and cards of sympathy come in first.’ Rachel Hall’s unique, devastating story, “What was Sent,” is a catalogue of objects–letters and cards, and then paper snowflakes, teddy bears, fir trees, school supplies, an outpouring of items mailed in order to comfort a community that has just endured a school shooting. The catalogue, listed by a tax assessor who is organizing the contributions, is a powerful, effective statement about the helplessness of grief, of the impossibility of responding to the horror of shootings. It is a great story and a visceral political statement, and it is our Editor’s Choice in fiction for 2023 for Scoundrel Time.” -Fiction Editor Karen Bender

“Semantics,” (story) Bellevue Literary Review online, Fall 2022

“After,” (story) Blackbird, Winter 2020

• Hall chronicles the attempts of a school community to reconcile the events and aftermath of a shooting in her story “After.” In reverse chronological order, the community works around the “incident,” particularly the parents who “watch their children sleep, . . . their chests rising and falling, the delicate knit of rib beneath the skin. Such beauty. It could break your heart.”

“Avtomat Kalashnikova,” (story) Bellevue Literary Review, issue 42 (2022):66-77

“Do Not Anchor or Dredge,” (story) Cimarron Review, issue 212. (2020): 59-67

“Those Girls” (story) New England Review, Vol. 41 No. 2, Summer 2020

• Story of distinction Best American Short Stories 2021

• Special mention Pushcart Prize

“Generations,” Fifth Wednesday

“Block Party,” Bellingham Review, issue 68 

“Old Order,” Midwestern Gothic, 12. 

“New Leaf,” South 85 Journal, Fall 2012

“Heirlooms” Water~Stone, 8 

“Surrogates,” New Letters, 70.2 

“Saint-Malo, 1939,” The Gettysburg Review, 14.2