Featuring the winners of the 2018 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

New Short Stories

• 1st place: Home as Found by Frank Meola

• 2nd place: Explain It To Me by Jenessa Abrams

• 3rd place: Conflagration by Suzanne Barefoot

• Editor’s Choice: How Would You Like To Be Dead? by Noah Bogdonoff

• Editor’s Choice: Terschelling by Jaap van der Schaaf

New Poetry

• Queens Constellation by Mimi Plevin-Foust

• The Real Museum by Kimberly Grabowski Strayer

• Summer in Chicago by Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson

• Animatronic Armful of Groceries by Mat Wenzel

• Hen-Eater by Anna Bernstein

New Nonfiction

• Henway by E.M.

• Sister by Hannah Michelle

• The Alphabet of the Republic by Chip Livingston

Additional Features

• Decline/Accept: This Is an Exercise in Detachment by Amy Purcell

• One to Watch: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

• Interviews with short story authors

• Illustrations by Justin Burks