Featuring the winners of the 2022 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Short Stories & Interviews

• 1st place: To Love a Stranger is Certain Death by Brandon J. Choi

• 2nd place: A Rugged Border by Candice May

• 3rd place: Don’t Speak by Megan Callahan

• Editor’s Choice: Birdsong by Abby Provenzano

• Editor’s Choice: -K by Ned Carter Miles

New Poetry

• A Cold Supper by Katy Aisenberg

• Dear Dead Garden by William Erickson

• Sunday by Elizabeth Sylvia

• Vasospasm by Rachel Marie Patterson

• I Got A Sweet Rez Angel by CooXooEii Black

New Nonfiction

• Making the Inaudible Audible: Finding My Great-Great-Grandfather by Kimberley Knight

Additional Features

• Decline/Accept: Then It Would Be Raining by Steve Fox

• One to Watch: Interview with Nazli Koca by Anna Zumbahlen

• Illustrations by Justin Burks