Featuring the winners of the 2021 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Short Stories & Interviews

• 1st place: Habits by Morgan Green

• 2nd place: The Pit by Chris Blexrud

• 3rd place: Field Dressing by Mariah Rigg

• Editor’s Choice: What Happened with the Librarian? by Haley Hach

• Editor’s Choice: The Kingdom of the Shades by Nina Elli

New Poetry

• The Grief Retreat Medeia Starfire

• All The Time Art Is Falling by Emily Bludworth de Barrios

• Some Light: Rome, 1989 by Anne Pedone

• Video Tape by Nick Martino

New Nonfiction

• The Pathos of Things by Simona Blat

• Eighteen Months by Raymond Wlodkowski

Additional Features

• Decline/Accept: Stray Dandelions by Mehdi M. Kashani

• One to Watch: Interview with Gabriela Garcia by Sejal H. Patel

• Illustrations by Justin Burks