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FICTION: Richard Bausch, Robert Olen Butler, Gail Godwin, Ann Packer. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Jane Delury, Paul Griner, Anthony Marra. INTERVIEWS: Lorrie Moore, Gail Godwin. NONFICTION: Melanie Gideon, Tom Jenks, Joyce Carol Oates. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Alice Jones, Tomás Q. Morín, Anne Marie Rooney. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Rick Bass, Arthur Sze,Tobias Wolff.

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FICTION: Richard Bausch, Chandler Burr, Lynn Freed, Tom Grimes, Maud Newton. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Adam Atlas, David Bradley, Janet Burroway. INTERVIEWS: Junot Diaz, Garry Marshall NONFICTION: Robert Olen Butler, Donald Hall. POETRY: Jon Davis, Aimee Nezhukumatahil, William O’Daly, Jessica Roder. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Charles D’Ambrosio, Michael Dickman, Matthew Dickman, James Salter.

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FICTION: T. C. Boyle, Eugene Cross, Greg Jalbert, Jayne Anne Phillips, Adam Atlas. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Richard Bausch, Russell Working. INTERVIEWS: with Jayne Anne Phillips NONFICTION: Jeanie Kortum. POETRY: David Bottoms, Natalie Diaz, Michael Dickman, Dan Gerber, Kristine Ong Muslim. THRILLER FICTION: John Lescroart, Andy Gross, David Corbett, David Woodrell.

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FICTION: James William Brown, Elmo Lum, Jill McCorkle, Joe Pagano Jr., Lee Smith, Alexi Zentner. FIRST-PERSON WINNERS: Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Gina Ochsner, Holly Wilson. SHORT SHORTS: Lauren Birden. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Hal Crowther, Marc Petersen. POETRY: Michelle Bitting, Paul Breslin, Peter Cole, Eamon Grennan, Carol Moldaw, Dennis O'Driscoll, Lucia Perillo, Ghassan Zaqtan. CLASSICS: W.H. Auden. PLUS: Don Lee, Robert Penn Warren.

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FICTION: Nicky Beer, Ree Davis, Don Evans, Edan Lepucki, Douglas Light, Carol Moldaw, Josh Weil. NONFICTION: Scott Cohen.

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FICTION: Richard Bausch, Lisa Cupolo, Jeanie Kortum, Reese Kwon, Mattox Roesch. SHORT SHORTS: Louise Jarvis Flynn, Barry Gifford, Holly Wilson. NONFICTION: Lynn Ahrens, Rick Bass, Tom Grimes, Donald Hall. POETRY: Matthew Dickman, Mike O'Connor, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Jennifer Tonge. CLASSICS: Stephen Crane. PLUS: Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Julie Phillips.

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FICTION: Robert Olen Butler, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Octavia Randolph, Scott Spencer. INTERVIEWS: Richard Rodriguez. NONFICTION: Paula Delgado-Kling. POETRY: Marvin Bell, S.G. Frazier, Shirley Kaufman, Stephen Kuusisto, Joseph Stroud, Connie Wanek. CLASSICS: W.H. Auden. PLUS: Carol Edgarian & Tom Jenks, Howard Norman, Alan Ziegler.

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FICTION: Abby Frucht, Laura Jamison, Twister Marquiss, Ann Pancake, Terese Svoboda. NONFICTION: N.E. Anderson, Bill Barich, Gail Godwin, Ned Parker. Roberta Payne, Wendy Sanford. POETRY: Michael Dickman, Sascha Feinstein, Dan Gerber, Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser, Sarah Lindsay, Lisa Olstein, Benjamin Alire, Sáenz, Arthur Sze. CLASSICS: Donald Hall. ESSAYS: Dahlma Llanos Figueroa. PLUS: Percival Everett, E.M. Forster.

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FICTION: Gary Buslik, Elea Carey, Darrach Dolan, Golda Goldbloom, Skip Horack, Charles Johnson, Steve Kistulentz, Hannah Pittard, Emily Rapp.

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FICTION: Ron Carlson, Michael Croft, Michael Croley, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ron Hansen, Claudia Zuluaga. NONFICTION: Lynn Ahrens. POETRY: David Guterson. PROFILES: Ann Beattie. CLASSICS: Nathaniel Hawthorne. PLUS: Deborah Eisenberg, Min Jin Lee.

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FICTION: Richard Bausch, James Warner. SHORT SHORTS: Michelle Bitting, Amy Knox Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Alma García, Robert Garner McBrearty, Barry Gifford, Robin Hemley, Brandon Hobson, Susan Moldaw, Liesl Wilke. NONFICTION: Sadiya Hartman, Robert Stone. CLASSICS: Saul Bellow. PLUS: Joan Didion, Michael Ondaatje, W.G. Sebald, William Styron.

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FICTION: David Corbett, Tom Grimes, Ward Just. NONFICTION: Olivia Chia-Lin Lee, Ned Parker, James and Kay Salter, Michael Wolff. CLASSICS: Elizabeth Bowen. PLUS: Joseph Conrad, Gail Godwin, V.S. Naipaul, Edward Said.

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FICTION: X.J. Kennedy, Lorraine Lopez, Kent Meyers, Don Waters, Tiphanie Yanique. NONFICTION: Abraham Brennan.

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FICTION: Craig Bueltel, Tom Grimes, James Kaplan, Jayne Anne Phillips. INTERVIEWS: Alan Ziegler. NONFICTION: Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Ned Parker, Katayoon Zandvakili, Alan Ziegler. CLASSICS: Andre Dubus. PLUS: Irène Némirovsky, Philip Roth, Leo Tolstoy, Eudora Welty.

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FICTION: Mermer Blakeslee, Wesley Brown, Cai Emmons, Tom Grimes, Padgett Powell, Robin Troy. CLASSICS: Frank Conroy. ESSAYS: Rick Bass. PLUS: Tobias Wolff.

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FICTION: Ann Beattie, Jeffrey Colvin, E.L. Doctorow, Abby Frucht, Sameer Pandya, Debra Spark. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Michael Wolff. CLASSICS: Gina Berriault. PLUS: Lynn Freed, Jim Harrison, James Salter.

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FICTION: Rick Bass, Ann Beattie, Min Jin Lee. INTERVIEWS: Shannon Ravenel, Jack Shoemaker. NONFICTION: Bill Barich. CLASSICS: V.S. Pritchett.

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FICTION: Rick Bass, Chandler Burr, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Alma García, Shann Ray, Krystn Lee Yang. INTERVIEWS: Geoffrey Wolff. CLASSICS: Ivan Turgenev. ESSAYS: Roy Blount Jr.

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FICTION: Ken Babbs, Rick Bass, Lynn Freed, Alicia Gifford, Don Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, Terese Svoboda. INTERVIEWS: Frank Conroy. CLASSICS: Peter Taylor.

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FICTION: Kim Addonizio, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Lacy Crawford, Charlotte Forbes, James D. Houston. NONFICTION: Donald Hall. CLASSICS: Jean Stafford.

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FICTION: Rick Bass, Min Jin Lee, Tobias Wolff. SHORT SHORTS: Bridgett M. Davis. NONFICTION: Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates.