Poetry

• Eureka Mill (1998)
• interweaves his family's personal migration from Buncombe County, NC farms with the broader portrait of mill life outside Chester, South Carolina
• Among the Believers (2000)
• Raising the Dead (2002)
• Deals with loss and displacement as a result of the flooding of Jocassee Valley, S.C.

Short story collections

• The Night The New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina (1994)
• Casualties (2000)
• Chemistry and Other Stories (2007)
• Thirteen short stories, eight of which were previously published in Casualties ("Chemistry," "Last Rite," "Not Waving But Drowning," "Overtime," "Cold Harbor", "Honesty", "Dangerous Love," "The Projectionist's Wife,"). Also includes the O. Henry Prize Winner "Speckled Trout" as well as "Pemberton's Bride," a story that gives a taste of Rash's forthcoming novel.
• Burning Bright (2010)

Novels

• One Foot in Eden (2002)
• Fleshes out the characters and themes of Raising the Dead. It tells the story of a community displaced disguised as a murder mystery and imbued with Rash’s poetic language.
• Saints at the River (2004)
• About a South Carolina community torn over the issue of environmentalism.
• The World Made Straight (2006)
• Both a coming-of-age story set in the 1970s Appalachia and a meditation on the role of the past in the present, in this case a Civil War massacre that has divided Madison County, N.C. ever since.
• Serena (2008)
• The ambitious wife of a North Carolina timber baron, Serena brings the spirit of Lady MacBeth to depression-era North Carolina.

Children's book

• The Shark’s Tooth (2001)

Magazine Publications

• The Woman at the Pond (The Southern Review, Vol. 46.4, 2010)

• 1987: General Electric Younger Writers Award.
• 1996: The Sherwood Anderson Prize.
• 2002: Novello Literary Award for One Foot in Eden.
• 2002: ForeWord Magazine’s Gold Medal in Literary Fiction for One Foot in Eden.
• 2002: Appalachian Book of the Year for One Foot in Eden.
• 2004: Saints at the River is awarded Fiction Book of the Year by the Southern Book Critics Circle.
• 2004: Saints at the River is awarded Fiction Book of the Year by the Southeastern Booksellers Association.
• 2004: Saints at the River is given the Weatherford Award for Best Novel of 2004.
• 2005: Rash is given the James Still Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
• Short Story "Speckled Trout" included in 2005 O. Henry Prize Stories. This story formed the basis for the first chapter of The World Made Straight.
• In 2006, Participants in Western North Carolina will be reading Saints at the River as part of the region's program, "Together We Read."
• 2008: Chemistry and Other Stories a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
• 2009: Serena a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
• 2010: Awarded Heasley Prize at Lyon College.
• 2010: Burning Bright winner of Frank O'Connor Award