Featuring the winners of the 2020 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Short Stories & Interviews

• 1st place: The Paper Tiger by Lindsay Kennedy

• 2nd place: The Fourth by C. Adán Cabrera

• 3rd place: Think Tank by Ella Martinsen Gorham

• Editor’s Choice: Sandhill Cranes by Anna Prawdzik Hull

• Editor’s Choice: On Guard by L. Vocem

New Poetry

• Ode to Boys by Beth Spencer

• All This by Sean Cho A.

• Papier-mâché by Anthony Aguero

• Abuelo by Andrew Navarro

• My Grandfather Dies On My Last Night In Iowa by Esther Sun

New Nonfiction

• How I Learned to Love Jon Hamm by Sarah Yeazel

• Mid-slope by Clinton Crockett Peters

Additional Features

• Decline/Accept: Roommates by Christine Heuner

• One to Watch: Interview with Grace Talusan by Sejal H. Patel

• Illustrations by Justin Burks