Past Contests
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.
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