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The 2008 Raymond Carver
Contest results are here!
Many thanks to judge Cristina
Henriquez for her time and efforts in choosing the top
three winners. The winning stories and the two
Editor's Choice stories are available to read in the
Fall 2008 issue.
For 2008, winners are as follows:
First prize - $1,000
Marc Nieson, Pittsburgh, PA - "The Last Hours of Pompeii"
Second prize - $750
L. Annette Binder, Los Angeles, CA - "Mourning the
Departed"
Third prize - $500
Elizabeth Baines, Didsbury, Manchester, UK - "Used to Be"
Two Editor's Choice prizes - $250 each
Sung J. Woo, Washington, NJ - "Limits"
Julie Eill, Alexandria, VA - "Cooling"
SHORTLISTED STORIES
These stories were on the Editor's
"short list" for the Editor's Choice Awards:
Margaret Rodenberg - "Mrs.
Morrisette"
Michael Schiavone - "No One
Comes Up Here By Accident" & "For Those Who Have Also Dared"
Paul Vidich - "Home Theater"
Amelia Beamer - "The Cat,
Kicking"
Thank you all for participating in the 2008 Raymond Carver Short
Story Contest!
About the Judge
 
Cristina Henriquez
served as judge for the 2008 contest. She is the author
of Come Together, Fall Apart, (pictured left) a collection of short
stories and a novella. Her stories have been published
in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares,
TriQuarterly,
and AGNI. She was featured in Virginia Quarterly
Review as one of "Fiction's New Luminaries." She
earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University
and is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. More
information is available at
www.cristinahenriquez.com.
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