2007 Raymond Carver Contest

From over 350 entries...

Results

  • 1st Place - $1000: “Agashi” by AC Koch

  • 2nd Place - $500: “Summit” by Julia Gordon-Bramer

  • 3rd Place - $250: “One Hundred Santas” by Liz Skillman

  • Editor’s Choice - $50: “Different Than Any Day So Far” by Marc Phillips

  • Editor's Choice - $50: “The Ways You Are Gone” by Kami Westhoff

Honorable Mentions

  • “The Fire Eater” by Lauren Faulkberry

  • “Word is Bond” by Deivis Garcia

  • “The Pull, The Weight” by Andrew Howard

  • “The Kind You Can’t Take Aspirin For” by Michael Schiavone

  • “Lost Art” by Midge Raymond

  • “The Summer of ‘68” by Sally Bellerose

  • “Wasps” by Steve Young

  • “The Man Who Would Sing” by James Sievert

 

Guest Judge: ben fountain

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.


2001-2006

Listed in the archived table of contents of online stories.