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The archives are a work in progress...thank you for your patience!

Please note: When you are reading stories in 2007 archives, the site will change to the theme for that issue.

 

 2008

Summer 2008 Cover


Summer / Volume IX Issue II
Rhea DeRose-Weiss, The Seagull

Elizabeth Corcoran, Indelible Ink

 

 

 

Spring 2008 Cover
Spring / Volume IX Issue I
Cody McCafferty, Reward Posters
Danielle Davis, Wall
Kelly Lundgren Pietrucha, A Dying Mother
Mary Jones, Customer of Size
Eugene Chang, Chicago Monologue

 

 

2007

Winter / Volume VIII Issue IV
Raymond Carver Short Story Awards

1st Place - AC Koch - Agashi
2nd Place - Julia Gordon-Bramer - Summit
3rd Place - Liz Skillman - One Hundred Santas

Editor's Choice - Kami Westhoff - The Ways You Are Gone
Editor's Choice - Marc Phillips - Different Than Any Day So Far

 

 

Fall / Volume VIII Issue III

Jaren Watson, This One Thing
Yuvi Zalkow,
When My Body Smashed Into The Sidewalk
Ezra K. E.,
Weekend with the Boy

 

 

Summer / Volume VIII Issue II

Rob Bass, If You Don't
Marcy Campbell, Turning the Bones
Stephanie Dickinson, Hybrid
Craig Terlson, Samurai Bluegrass
 

 

March 07Spring / Volume VIII Issue I
Nate House, When Snow Falls on Atlantic City
Stephen Mackinnon, Drinking in the Loons
Alyssa Morris, In His Own Image
Mike Schiavone, Think Engineering
David Stoler, The First Fire

 

 

2006

At this time only the table of contents is available for each issue listed prior to 2007.

November / Volume VII Issue VI

Trashy Desires of Women Nearing Fifty by Xu Xi
Summer’s Over by Mary Winsor
Awash in Love by Jane Buchan
Healing Waters by Dorene O’Brien
Under Libby’s Bonnet by Elizabeth K. Severn
The B-63 by Thomas Lisenbee
The Weighing of the Heart by James W. Brown
Rain by Wayne L. Price
Yum Yum Git You Some by Dustin Wells
The Naming of Mountains by W.J.Wilkinson

 

September / Volume VII Issue V

In the Old World by Robert F. James
Titties by Kay Sexton
Save Your Breath by Rick Hill
Egalite by Gustavo Bondoni
There Was Wayne by Aaron Hellem
She Had a Way With Plants by Karin Falcone
Comprehension by Man Martin
Rope by Adam Cushman
Ko Phuket by John C. Sakellar
Wiffle by Eric Vrooman
Afterwards by Laurie Mazzaferro
Dangerous Story by David Watts

 

July / Volume VII Issue IV

Ambush by Mark Tonsetic
Anne and Morgana, Rose and Pierre
by Patricia Gilmartin Patterson
Blue Devil by Brad Koski
Losing Control by Penny Feeny
Mandy by Susan R. Thornton
A Simplified Map of the Real World by Steven Allred
Pearl by M.A. Leighton
Temporary Assistant Professor of English by William Ryderr
Silent Witness by Jay Boyer
Tips by Mike Lubow
Chasing the Vixen by Alex Keegan
The Wager by Allison Barrett

 

 

May / Volume VII Issue III
(Carver Awards Edition)

 

The Understory by Tim Horvath
Notebook 366 by Michael Horner
The Taj Mahal by Jim Thomson
Western Union by Charles McLeod
The Galician by Linda M. Rodriguez Guglielmoni
Bridge by Eric Vrooman
In Zugzwang by S. Frederic Liss
All Songs Singing by Therese Stanton
A Summer Tale by Leslee Becker
How to Be Sure You Want to Be a Farm Girl by Catherine Elcik
A Map of the Area by Emily Franklin
City of Mr. Jiang by Louis Malloy

 

March / Volume VII Issue II

Miss Molly by Judy Crozier
Crash by Michele Melnick
Trespass by Judy Wilson
Associations by Chris Przybyszewski
Exit Strategies by Richard Peabody
Separated by Gail Chehab
Lousy Tee by Ken Pisani
SGGG by Kathy Karlson
Bicycle Riding by Zdravka Evtimovw
The Birthday Knife by Sean Gallagher
Janaki by Vijay Lakshmi
For Days on End by Jeff Tannen
Devil’s Gorge by Don Lowe

 

January / Volume VII Issue I

After Party by R.J. Comer
National Remnants Co. by Mark Esrig
Security by Sean Hoade
The Silent Treatment by Stephanie Reents
You People by Linda Dhavan
Jayne With a Y by Steve McBrearty
One Small Step by Susan Dugan
In The Kingdom by Rosemary Berkeley
A Red Chair for Sleeping by E. Echararria
Ian’s Fortune by Shelly Massanoble
The Life Coach by Mike Markel
Missionaries by J.E. Ogle
Her World by Caroline Kepnes
The Squirrel and the Crow by Lee Sterne
  

Archives update! (9/1/08)

A new page dedicated to the Carve Classics (2000-2006) will be available before the end of the year.  There you will be able to read select stories from years prior to 2007.

Click here to access the archived table of contents for Volumes I-VI (2000-2005).


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