2010

The stories are now available to read in the Winter 2010 issue.

» The 2010 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest winners selected by the Editor are:

1st place - $1000
"The White Rabbit" by Maire Cooney in Glasgow, UK

2nd place - $500
"Unpracticed Altitudes" by Shaun Hamill in Hurst, Texas

3rd place - $250
"When You Cross the Border" by Molly Greeley in Ellicott City, Maryland

Editor's Choice - $125
selected by Managing Editor Kristin vanNamen
"It Was So Many Years Ago" by Amber Krieger in Portland, Oregon

Honorable Mention
"The Appointment" by Frances Gonzalez

» We thank everyone for their participation in the 2010 contest. We thoroughly enjoyed reading this year's selections. If you entered via Submishmash, please log into your account and check the status of your submission. We made notes/comments/suggestions on many, but not all, manuscripts this year.

» For questions about the contest, please email the editor at contest@carvezine.com

2009

The following winning stories are available to read in the Summer 2009 issue:

1st place - $1000
What You've Done For Me, John S. Walker, Cordova, TN

2nd place - $750
At the Last Minute, Martha Miller, Springfield, IL

3rd place - $500
Zero Pressure, Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, San Leandro, CA

Editor's Choice - $250
How The Tiger Got Its Stripes, Nicholas Hogg, New York, NY

Shortlist
University Hospital, Timothy Crandle
A Rastafarian Buddha, Ann Selby
Agavé, Rashad Harrison

About the Judge

In honor of the magazine's 10th annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, Carve Magazine is pleased to announce the guest judge: Melvin Sterne, founder and original editor of the magazine.

Melvin Sterne worked construction for 22 years with the Boilermakers and Ironworkers before returning to college to earn his BA (University of Washington), MA (University of California at Davis), and PhD (Florida State University). He founded Carve Magazine in March of 2000 with the aid of a grant from the Mary Gates Foundation. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Afghanistan, where he teaches creative writing, literature, composition, and other courses in the Humanities Concentration. He has won awards for his writing including the 2001 Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, and two Pushcart nominations. Like so many writers, he has a novel with an agent, and is working on another. Visit his website at www.melvinsterne.com.

2008

Many thanks to judge Cristina Henriquez for her time and efforts in choosing the top three winners.  The winning stories and the two Editor's Choice stories are available to read in the Fall 2008 issue.

First prize - $1,000
Marc Nieson, Pittsburgh, PA - "The Last Hours of Pompeii"

Second prize - $750
L. Annette Binder, Los Angeles, CA - "Mourning the Departed"

Third prize - $500
Elizabeth Baines, Didsbury, Manchester, UK - "Used to Be"

Two Editor's Choice prizes - $250 each
Sung J. Woo, Washington, NJ - "Limits"
Julie Eill, Alexandria, VA - "Cooling"

SHORTLISTED STORIES
Margaret Rodenberg - "Mrs. Morrisette"
Michael Schiavone - "No One Comes Up Here By Accident"
Michael Schiavone - "For Those Who Have Also Dared"
Paul Vidich - "Home Theater"
Amelia Beamer - "The Cat, Kicking"

About the Judge

Cristina Henriquez is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart, 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.

2007

Many thanks to judge Ben Fountain for his time and efforts in choosing the top three winners.  The winning stories and the two Editor's Choice stories are available to read in the Winter 2007 issue.

1st Place, $1000 Prize
AC Koch - "Agashi"

2nd Place, $500 Prize
Julia Gordon-Bramer - "Summit"

3rd Place, $250 Prize
Liz Skillman - "One Hundred Santas"

Editor's Choice Awards, $50 Prize each
Marc Phillips - "Different Than Any Day So Far"
Kami Westhoff - "The Ways You Are Gone"

SHORTLISTED STORIES
Lauren Faulkberry - "The Fire Eater"
Deivis Garcia - "Word is Bond"
Andrew Howard - "The Pull, The Weight"
Michael Schiavone - "The Kind You Can't Take Aspirin For"
Midge Raymond - "Lost Art"
Sally Bellerose - "The Summer of '68"
Steve Young - "Wasps"
James Sievert - "The Man Who Would Sing"

About the Judge

Ben Fountain's fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, Harper's, and The Paris Review.  He is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize and two Pushcart Prizes.  His short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, earned him the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award for distinguished first book of fiction.