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The 2008 Raymond Carver
Contest is now open!
Please be sure to review the
updated guidelines before continuing to electronic
submission below. You may also opt to mail in your
submission; address is below.
About the Judge
  Carve Magazine is pleased to announce Cristina Henriquez
as judge for the 2008 contest. She is the author
of Come Together, Fall Apart, (pictured left) a collection of short
stories and a novella. Her stories have been published
in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares,
TriQuarterly,
and AGNI. She was featured in Virginia Quarterly
Review as one of "Fiction's New Luminaries." She
earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University
and is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. More
information is available at
www.cristinahenriquez.com.
Contest Guidelines
Carve Magazine is accepting submissions for its annual
Raymond Carver Short Story Contest from April 15 through May 31.
For 2008, prizes are as follows:
First prize - $1,000
Second prize - $750
Third prize - $500
Two Editor's Choice prizes - $250 each
Only literary short stories will be accepted. No genre
fiction or excerpts from longer works (like novels.)
However, we welcome the traditional and experimental.
Stories must be previously unpublished and may not exceed
6,000 words. International entries accepted and
welcome.
Entry fee is $15.00 per story. There is no limit to the
number of entries per person. Entries may be submitted one
of two
ways:
1) Electronically through our upload form (payment via
PayPal.) All electronic entries should be in Microsoft WORD
.doc or .rtf format.
2) Mail via United States Postal Service (check or money
order payable to Carve Magazine) to PO Box 701510, Dallas TX
75370. Envelope must be clearly marked as CONTEST ENTRY.
There is no need to submit a SASE or bio. May 31 is
postmark deadline.
For all entries: The first page should be a cover page with title, author
name, address, contact number, email, and word count
centered in the middle of the page. All subsequent pages
should include only story title and page number, in the right
side of header.
Winners will be
announced August 15 and published in the Fall 2008 issue on
September 15.
For additional questions about the contest guidelines,
please email the editor at
contest@carvezine.com
Thank you for your interest in the 2008 Raymond Carver Short
Story Contest!
Click here to access the form
for electronic entry.
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ISSN: #1529-272X
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