About Carve
Carve was founded in 2000 to publish short stories online and has hosted the annual Raymond Carver Short Story Contest since 2001. Print and digital quarterly issues began in 2012 and feature our signature HONEST FICTION, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, illustrations, and more. The editors, staff, and volunteers who help the magazine thrive are based all over the world.
Mission
Carve, named in honor of Raymond Carver, publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that respects the power of language and craft and elicits genuine emotional truths. We also strive to foster a sense of camaraderie among all writers and readers.
We converse with the writers we publish, sharing discussions on the modern writer’s life with readers across digital and print mediums. We deliver thoughtful feedback on select submissions that we decline, and we highlight individuals and organizations who practice outstanding literary citizenship. We also engage younger readers through classroom-ready lesson plans centered on our short stories.
We value the power of good writing—to challenge, heal, educate, disturb, and transform. With our borderless, inclusive, and diverse community, we look forward to sharing in the empathic spaces that literature creates.
Raymond Carver in 1984. Photograph: Bob Adelman/Corbis
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Publisher
Matthew Limpede
Production Editor
Janelle Drumwright
Poetry Editor
Ana Cottle
Nonfiction Editor
Naomi Tomlin
Design Editor
Justin Burks
Proofreader
Samantha Finley
Business Advisor
Susan Kenny
Contributing Editors
August Thompson
Savannah Brooks
Fiction Associate Editor
Jess Golden
Fiction Editorial Assistants
Nick Susa
Roxanne Guiney
Susanne Rubenstein
Fiction Readers
Ayla Gilbert
Delaney Saul
Erica Hussey
Erika Parker
Eris Young
Georgia O’Leary
Isabel Martin
Jack Harris
Janelle Drumwright
Katarina Schultz
Keely McAveney
Kylie Westerlind
Manuela Williams
Melody Sinclair
Sama Saqib
Sangeetha Menon
Yusuf Poladin
Poetry Associate Editor
Ree Sherwood
Poetry Editorial Assistants
Jarid McCarthy
Joseph Dierkes
Leslie Ortega
Caitlin Kaleri
Poetry Readers
Bonnie McClellan
Chidiebere Udeokechukwu
Jacob Billingsley
Jessica Kim
Laurie Kuntz
Olga Rukovets
Nonfiction Associate Editor
Katherine Blumenberg
Nonfiction Editorial Assistant
Gina Wilson
Nonfiction Readers
Damara Soto
Daylyn Carrigan
Elizabeth Cook
Joelle Renstrom
Sofia Wilson
PAST
Editor in Chief 2015-2022
Anna Zumbahlen
Nonfiction Editor 2016-2021
Cameron Maynard
Fiction Editor
Bridget Apfeld, 2020-2023
Rita Juster, 2015-2020
Poetry Editor 2016-2018
Ellie Francis Douglass
Managing Editor
Russell Brakefield, 2020-2023
Kristin S. vanNamen, 2010-2014
Founding Editor 2000-2006
Melvin Sterne
Additional contributions from:
Kira Homsher, Mariya Poe, Jasmine Griffin, Sejal H. Patel, Khalisa Rae Thompson, Ariel Courage, Amanda Conner, Zack Rybak, Eileen Cleary, Claire Schadler, Suzanne Barnecut, Denise H. Long, Kristi DeFord, Rio Liang