Featuring the winners of the 2017 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

New Short Stories

• 1st place: Richard by David J. Wingrave

• 2nd place: Laughing And Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

• 3rd place: Homecoming by Zachary Lunn

• Editor's Choice: Windfall by Edward Hamlin

• Editor's Choice: The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

New Poetry

• Dear Ozone Layer by Marianne Chan

• Skins by Kathryn Merwin

• Going North by Brionne Janae

• On Noticing That Nearly Every Biography in the Children's Book of Women Saints Starts by Describing a "Beautiful Girl" by Anne Champion

• In All My Dreams My Love and I Are Chased by Terrible Men by Cady Vishniac

New Nonfiction

• Back to Middle Earth by Andrew Wingfield

• On a Field, Sable by Amanda Parrish Morgan

Additional Features

• Decline/Accept: UFO by Alison McCabe

• One to Watch: Gemini Ink Q&A with Sheila Black and Alexandra van de Kamp

• Interviews with short story authors

• Illustrations by Justin Burks