2015 Raymond Carver Contest

From over 1200 entries...

RESULTS

  • First - $1000: "Arrangements" by Charlie Watts in Providence, RI.

  • Second - $500: "Kudzu" by Andrea Bobotis in Denver, CO.

  • Third - $250: "Jack Nicely" by Amanda Pauley in Elliston, VA.

  • Editor’s Choice (Matthew) - $125: "The Giant" by Joe Shlichta in Olympia, WA.

  • Editor’s Choice (Suzanne) - $125: "All That We Burned, All That We Loved" by Laura Haugen in U.S.A.

 

Honorable Mention

  • "Vanish" by Michael Minchin in Randolph, VT.

 

2015 GUEST JUDGE: Andre dubus iii

Andre Dubus III is the author of six books: The Cage Keeper and Other StoriesBluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and FogThe Garden of Last Days (soon to be a major motion picture) and his memoir, Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors' Choice." His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies, and his novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly. His new book, Dirty Love, was published in the fall of 2013 and has been listed as a New York Times “Notable Book”, a New York Times Editors’ Choice”, a 2013 “Notable Fiction” choice from The Washington Post, and a Kirkus “Starred Best Book of 2013”.

Mr. Dubus has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and a 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children.