Featuring the winners of the 2019 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Short Stories & Interviews

• 1st place: Private Lives by April Sopkin

• 2nd place: Gravity House by Carolyn Bishop

• 3rd place: The Enchanted Forest by Brian Crawford

• Editor’s Choice: The Ghost Rider by Erica Plouffe Lazure

New Poetry

• The Cephalopod and the Wedding Dress by Emma Cairns Watson

• Mother Figure & Waltz to a 3/4 Fracking Beat by Allison Adair

• Dialogue with a Fly 4 by Liam Powell

• Cattails by Rebecca Irene

New Nonfiction

• How a Marvel Movie Taught Me to Live in My Own Skin by Audrey Olivero

• Patience and Me by Raksha Vasudevan

Additional Features

• Decline/Accept: The Feed Corn Sea by Caleb Tankersley

• One to Watch: Interview with Colette Sartor by Anna Zumbahlen

• Illustrations by Justin Burks