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Winter 2024 Winter 2024
Fall 2023 Fall 2023

FICTION: Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar, Andre Dubus III, Ron Hansen, Huntley Gibson Paton, Jayne Anne Phillips, Spencer Wise. NONFICTION: S. E. Daniels, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Jim Shepard. POETRY: Rose DeMaris, Caroline Falzone, Matthew Gilbert, Nick Martino, Sharon Olds, Amanda Maret Scharf, Pimone Triplett. iPOEMS: Shelley Girdner. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Heather Treseler, Laura Foley, Avia Tadmor. SPRING CONTEST WINNER: Natasha Ayaz.

Spring 2023 Spring 2023

FICTION: Rick Bass, Emily Besh, T. C. Boyle, Katherine Heiny, Wen Jing, Tom Lakin, Lee Smith. NONFICTION: Elizabeth Benedict, Maureen Corrigan, Maria Hummel, Kim Wickens. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Donald Hall. POETRY: Bruce Bond, Tara Bray, Chen Chen, Rose DeMaris, Tyler Dunston, Ted Kooser, Timothy Leo, Jen McClanaghan, Rose McLarney, Stelios Mormoris, Kéchi Nne Nomu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Dean Rader, Matthew Carey Salyer, Aaron Zhang. CLASSICS: Willa Cather. iPOEMS: Kōan Brink, David Grubin, Timothy Leo. WINTER CONTEST WINNER: Katerina Ivanov Prado.

Winter 2023 Winter 2023

FICTION: Carol Dines, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Katherine Heiny, Nazlı Koca, Jill McCorkle, David McGlynn. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Phoebe Stone. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Sara Houghteling, Tom Jenks. POETRY: W. H. Auden, Colin Bailes, DeeSoul Carson, Daniel Mark Epstein, Caroline Falzone, Henry Goldkamp, Tory Huff, Anthony Immergluck, Maja Lukic, Julia McDaniel, Mal Profeta, Dean Rader, Doug Ramspeck, Anne Lovering Rounds, Laura Budofsky Wisniewski. CLASSICS: Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandlestam, Marina Tsvetaeva. iPOEMS: Madeline Cravens, David Grubin, Richard Quigley. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Janet Burroway, Tiffany Isaacs, Andrew Steiner.

Fall 2022 Fall 2022

FICTION: Sarah Balakrishnan, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Cally Fiedorek, Tom Grimes, Josh Haven, Katherine Heiny, Anthony Marra, Mary Morris, David Rabe, Sandra Sidi, Morgan Talty. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Tom Jenks, Soren Stockman. FEATURES: Naomi Shihab Nye. POETRY: Kaitlyn Airy, W.H. Auden, Alexandria Delcourt, William Fargason, Timothy Leo, Brandon Lewis, Richard Quigley, Anne Lovering Rounds, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Maria Zoccola. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Kwame Dawes, Cate Lycurgus, Julia Anna Morrison. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: S.L. Wisenberg, Tryphena L. Yeboah.

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Stories of the Week: 2022–2023 Stories of the Week: 2022–2023
Poems of the Week: 2022–2023 Poems of the Week: 2022–2023
Spring 2022 Spring 2022

FICTION: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Madelena Grossmann, Don Lee, Shann Ray, Sandra Scofield, Elizabeth Spencer. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Ann Beattie. INTERVIEWS: Ottessa Moshfegh, Marie Myung-Ok Lee. CLASSICS: Langston Hughes. POETRY: Rachel Edelman, Loisa Fenichell, Matthew Gellman, J. P. Grasser, Henry Hart, Ambalila Hemsell, Megan Kim, A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, Kiran Masroor, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Amy Uyematsu, Oswaldo Vargas, D. S. Waldman, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Edward Wilson.

Stories of the Week: 2021–2022 Stories of the Week: 2021–2022
Poems of the Week: 2021–2022 Poems of the Week: 2021–2022
Winter 2022 Winter 2022

FICTION: Ifeoma Sesiana Amobi, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Mikhail Iossel, Tina Nettesheim, Christina Perachio, Sandra Sidi. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Amy Bloom, Olga Zilberbourg. INTERVIEWS: Monica Ali, Julie Otsuka. POETRY: Marianne Boruch, Traci Brimhall, Chee Brossy, Loisa Fenichell, Nicholas Goodly, Amanda Gunn, Cate Marvin, Dean Rader, Stella Wong. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Jeannie Tseng, S. L. Wisenberg. 30 BELOW CONTEST WINNERS: Sarah Balakrishnan, Marissa Davis.

Fall 2021 Fall 2021

FICTION: Rae Canaan, Michael Croley, Jenzo Duque, Ha Jin, Daniel Mason, HC Palmer, Nathan Poole. NONFICTION: Gail Godwin. INTERVIEWS: Pamela Paul, Sarah Ruhl. POETRY: Natalie Eilbert, Li-Young Lee, Rosalie Moffett, Sharon Olds, Gwen Strauss. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Abigail Thomas, Sandra Sidi, Debra Nystrom. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Madeleine Cravens, Haolun Xu, Leila Chatti. iSTORIES: Tom Lakin. iPOEMS: Ed McManis.

Spring 2021 Spring 2021

FICTION: Kate Axelrod, Richard Bausch, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Scott Karambis, Kirstin Valdez Quade. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Hal Crowther, Maria Hummel. INTERVIEWS: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh. POETRY: Chaun Ballard, Kate Bond, Britny Cordera, Norman Dubie, Anthony Immergluck, Ghinwa Jawhari, Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung, Lisa Olstein, Gregory Orr, Michael Prior, Yaccaira Salvatierra, Carolina Shea, JinJin Xu. iSTORIES: Madelena Grossmann.

Winter 2021 Winter 2021

FICTION: Bill Barich, Ann Beattie, Carol Edgarian, Sara Houghteling, Lance Olsen, Allen Wier. NONFICTION: J. D. Debris, Abigail Thomas. INTERVIEWS: Jo Ann Beard, Paisley Rekdal. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Madelena Grossmann, Charles Wheelan. 30 BELOW WINNERS Madeleine Cravens, Simon Shieh, Rob Shapiro. POETRY: Yasmine Ameli, Emma Aylor, Tishani Doshi, Patrick James Errington, Katy Gurin, Kassy Lee, Nadra Mabrouk, Komal Mathew, Rooja Mohassessy, Max Seifert, Jacob Sunderlin, Lee Colin Thomas. GRAPHIC STORIES: Jenny Lesser.

Stories of the Week: 2020–2021 Stories of the Week: 2020–2021
Poems of the Week: 2020–2021 Poems of the Week: 2020–2021
Fall 2020 Fall 2020

FICTION: Eugene Cross, Andre Dubus III, Joyce Carol Oates, Holiday Reinhorn, Morgan Talty, Edmund White. INTERVIEWS: Lacy Crawford. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Christopher Kempf, Susan Minot, Tryphena L. Yeboah. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Keith S. Wilson, Anne Haven McDonnell, Anna Journey. POETRY: Gbenga Adesina, Bruce Bond, David Bottoms, Elizabeth Metzger, Dean Rader, James Richardson. GRAPHIC STORIES: Angie Kang, Seuong Eun Macfarlane, Sofia Warren.

Spring 2020 Spring 2020

FICTION: Richard Bausch, Lisa Cupolo, James Jung. NONFICTION: Rick Bass, Heather Hartley, Sam Shepard. INTERVIEWS: Jill Bialosky. POETRY: Erin Belieu, Malachi Black, Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, Shangyang Fang, John Freeman, Kawita Kandpal, Natan Last, A. D. Lauren-Abunassar, Philip Metres, Jerome Ellison Murphy, Romeo Oriogun, Natalie Rose Richardson, Taije Silverman. GRAPHIC STORIES: Sofia Warren.

Winter 2020 Winter 2020

FICTION: Ifeoma Sesiana Amobi, Rick Bass, Yoon Choi, Shane Delaney, Gail Godwin, Vivian Ludford, Robert Stone, Marian Thurm. NONFICTION: Bill Barich. INTERVIEWS: Vanessa Hua. POETRY: Linda Bierds, Sara Brickman, Edward Hirsch, Maria Hummel, Vandana Khanna, Yusef Komynyakaa, Philip Metres, Talin Tahajian. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Russell Working, Marcella Hunyadi. N30B WINNERS: Kelsey Hennegen, Felicity Sheehy, Erin Marie Lynch.

Stories of the Week: 2019–2020 Stories of the Week: 2019–2020
Poems of the Week: 2019–2020 Poems of the Week: 2019–2020
Fall 2019 Fall 2019

FICTION: Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Michael Croley, Nicholas Delbanco, Nancy Hale, Austin Smith. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Ann Beattie, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Scott Ezell, George Saunders. POETRY: Kelli Russell Agodon, Tyree Daye, Dan Gerber, Richard Kinney, Gregory Orr, Michael Wasson. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Hannah Perrin King, Gbenga Adesina, Rebekah Denison Hewitt. IPOEM: Shangyang Fang, Christopher Warner.

Spring 2019 Spring 2019

FICTION: Susan Minot, Joyce Carol Oates. FEATURES: Trisha & Gregory Orr. NONFICTION: Rick Bass, Ann Beattie, Charmaine Craig, Kate Small. POETRY: Ian Spencer Bell, Tyree Daye, Carlina Duan, Matthew Gellman, Carlie Hoffman, Sharon Olds, Deborah Paredez, Austin Smith. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: John Balaban. NARRATIVE BY HAND: William Butler Yeats. NARRATIVE 10: Ocean Vuong.

Winter 2019 Winter 2019

FICTION: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Kevin A. González, Josip Novakovich, Morgan Talty, Marian Thurm, Katherine Vaz. NONFICTION: Hal Crowther, Bridget Quinn. POETRY: Victoria Chang, Heather Christle, Lisa Fay Coutley, Bob Hicok, Keetje Kuipers, Robin Myers, Sharon Olds, Leslie Sainz. NARRATIVE 10: Nathan Englander. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Brenden Willey, Renée Thompson, Courtney Marcelo Norton. N30B CONTEST WINNERS: Madison Dettlinger, Aria Aber, Anna Besh.

Stories of the Week: 2018–2019 Stories of the Week: 2018–2019
Poems of the Week: 2018–2019 Poems of the Week: 2018–2019
Fall 2018 Fall 2018

FICTION: Tom Barbash, Robert Olen Butler, Daniel Mason. NONFICTION: Andre Dubus III, Josip Novakovich. CLASSICS: Virginia Woolf. POETRY: Ellen Bass, John Freeman, Bob Hicok, Richard Jones, Ted Kooser, Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth Metzger, Sharon Olds, Maggie Smith. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Susan Orlean. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: James Jung, Jonathan Stableford, Jacqueline Jones LaMon. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Maggie Millner, Leila Chatti, Christie Towers.

Spring 2018 Spring 2018

FICTION: Hannah Pittard, Spencer Wise. NONFICTION: Lynn Ahrens, Bill Barich, Rick Bass, Anton DiSclafani, Donald Hall, Neal Thompson. CLASSICS: Isaac Bashevis Singer. POETRY: Mehul Bhagat, Matthew Dickman, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Mia Kang, Ted Kooser, Rachel Mannheimer, Faisal Mohyuddin, Ösel Jessica Plante, Paisley Rekdal. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: T. Coraghessan Boyle. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Millicent Dillon, Joel Gardner, Catherine Pond.

Winter 2018 Winter 2018

FICTION: Richard Bausch, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Amy Bloom, Skip Horack, Joyce Carol Oates, Douglas Unger. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Marianne Boruch, Dawn Davies. POETRY: Matthew Dickman, Nikki Giovanni, Raven Leilani. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Javier Zamora. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Julie Diamond, Jerry D. Mathes II, Russell Working. N30B WINNERS: Carlina Duan, Maria Martin, Michelle Dominique Burk.

Stories of the Week: 2017–2018 Stories of the Week: 2017–2018
Poems of the Week: 2017–2018 Poems of the Week: 2017–2018
Fall 2017 Fall 2017

FICTION: Sherman Alexie, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Jesse Goolsby, Mary Morris, Tina Nettesheim, Peter Taylor. NONFICTION: Ann Beattie, Julia Scheeres. NARRATIVE 10: Jennifer Egan. POETRY: Marianne Boruch, Ha Jin, Laura Kasischke, Lisa Olstein, Sarah Ruhl. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Lynn Freed, Donald Hall. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Terrance Manning Jr., Kai Carlson-Wee, Vivian Carmichael.

Spring 2017 Spring 2017

FICTION: Richard Bausch, Gail Godwin, Austin Smith. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Hal Crowther. FEATURES: Robert Stone and Kate Chopin. NARRATIVE 10: Lynn Freed, Don Lee. PHOTOGRAPHY: Curt Richter. POETRY: Ellen Bass, Danielle Blau, Ama Codjoe, Norman Dubie, Carolyn Forché, Chase Twichell. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Janet Burroway, Jon Hauss, Erin Rose Belair.

Winter 2017 Winter 2017

FICTION: Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Alethea Black, Robert Olen Butler, Susan Minot, Tina Nettesheim, Joyce Carol Oates, Gina Ochsner, Nathan Poole. NONFICTION: Rick Bass. NARRATIVE 10: Min Jin Lee, Will Schwalbe. POETRY: Federico García Lorca, Amy Meng, Paisley Rekdal, Marcus Wicker. 30 BELOW CONTEST WINNERS: William Brewer, Javier Zamora, Monica Sok.

Stories of the Week: 2016–2017 Stories of the Week: 2016–2017
Poems of the Week: 2016–2017 Poems of the Week: 2016–2017
Fall 2016 Fall 2016

FICTION: Richard Bausch, T. C. Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Tom Grimes, Ron Hansen, Gina Ochsner. NONFICTION: Bill Barich. CLASSICS: Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter. NARRATIVE 10: Sara Houghteling. POETRY: Erin Belieu, Josh Bell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Siken. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Noah Warren, Leila Chatti, Korey Williams.

Spring 2016 Spring 2016

FICTION: Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Katherine Vaz. NONFICTION: Lynn Ahrens, Bill Barich, Rick Bass. CLASSICS: James Alan McPherson. NARRATIVE 10: Adam Haslett, Peggy Orenstein. POETRY: Tess Gallagher, Louise Glück, Jim Harrison, Carolyn Kizer, Ted Kooser, Danez Smith, C. D. Wright. iPOEM: Ghassan Zaqtan. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Sara Houghteling, E. K. Ota, Alex R. Jones.

Winter 2016 Winter 2016

FICTION: Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Farnaz Fassihi, Joyce Carol Oates, Austin Smith, Brenden Willey. NONFICTION: Lynn Freed. CLASSICS: Anton Chekhov. SIX-WORD STORIES: Sherman Alexie. iPOEMS: Tod Marshall, Michael McGriff, James Richardson. POETRY: James Arthur, Anders Carlson-Wee, Victoria Chang, Gregory Orr, Dean Rader, Matthew Rohrer, Terese Svoboda. FALL CONTEST WINNER: Kay Eldredge. 30 BELOW WINNERS: Jenny Xie, Leila Chatti, Maya Popa.

Stories of the Week: 2015–2016 Stories of the Week: 2015–2016
Poems of the Week: 2015–2016 Poems of the Week: 2015–2016
Fall 2015 Fall 2015

FICTION: Robert Olen Butler, Michael Croley, Helene Lenoir. NONFICTION: Hal Crowther, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen Spender. CLASSICS: Kay Boyle, E. E. Cummings, Denis Johnson, William Butler Yeats. NARRATIVE 10: Maud Newton, David L. Ulin. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Melanie Gideon, Phillipa Rees. POETRY: Jim Harrison, Lewis Holt, Michael McGriff, Boomer Pinches, Melissa Stein. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Christopher Kempf, Traci Brimhall, Matthew Wimberley.

Spring 2015 Spring 2015

FICTION: Bill Barich, Michael Croley, Carol Edgarian, Maxim Loskutoff, Austin Smith. NONFICTION: Millicent Dillon, Jayne Anne Phillips. CLASSICS: Thomas Hardy, Sharon Olds. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Terry Eicher, Hannah Timmins Reed. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Donald Hall. POETRY: James Galvin, Jim Harrison, Tómas Q. Morín, Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong. iPOEMS: Michael McGriff, James Richardson.

Winter 2015 Winter 2015

FICTION: Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Brenden Willey. NONFICTION: Gail Godwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Jenks. FEATURES: Kirstin Valdez Quade. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: CJ Hauser, Nick Fuller Googins, Taryn Browne. N30B CONTEST WINNERS: Danielle Blau, K. Reed Petty, Nikhil Roshan. NARRATIVE 10: Vikram Chandra, David Corbett, Liza Donnelly, Ann Packer. POETRY: Kai Carlson-Wee, Jim Harrison, James Richardson, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ed Skoog.

Stories of the Week: 2014–2015 Stories of the Week: 2014–2015
Poems of the Week: 2014–2015 Poems of the Week: 2014–2015
Fall 2014 Fall 2014

FICTION: Rick Bass, Robert Olen Butler, Millicent Dillon, Jonathan Lee, Nathan Poole. NONFICTION: Vikram Chandra, Lacy Crawford. PROFILES: Hermione Lee. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Sandra Scofield, Shann Ray. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Melissa Barrett, Maya Catherine Popa, Mark Wagenaar. CLASSICS: Sherwood Anderson, Galway Kinnell. MASTERPIECES: W. S. Merwin. POETRY: Julia Cariño, EJ Koh, Camille Rankine, Jennifer Liberts Weinberg, Javier Zamora.

Spring 2014 Spring 2014

FICTION: Amy Bloom, Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Jesse Goolsby, David Guterson, Skip Horack, Eric Puchner, Austin Smith. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Frank Conroy, Justin Cronin. FEATURES: Maria Hummel. WINTER CONTEST WINNER: Julie Diamond. POETRY: Malachi Black, Nick DePascal, Meg Freitag, Carol Moldaw, Rusty Morrison, Marsha Rabe, Susan Sonde. PHOTOGRAPHY: Wenshu Fan.

Winter 2014 Winter 2014

FICTION: Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Susan Minot. NONFICTION: James Salter, David Thomson, D. J. Lee. FEATURES: Jennifer duBois, Peter Orner. NARRATIVE 30 BELOW WINNERS: Soren Stockman, Moriah Cohen. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Katherine Vaz, Doug Benerofe, Robert McGuill. POETRY: Carl Adamshick, Ellen Bass, Judith Harris, Bob Hicok, Susan Kinsolving, Ted Kooser, David Lee, Lisa Olstein, Arthur Sze. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Natalie Diaz.

Stories of the Week: 2013–2014 Stories of the Week: 2013–2014
Poems of the Week: 2013–2014 Poems of the Week: 2013–2014
Fall 2013 Fall 2013

FICTION: Jayne Anne Phillips, Robert Stone, Rick Bass, Robert Olen Butler, Bob Shacochis, William Kittredge. NONFICTION: Julian Barnes, Frank Conroy. FEATURES: Anthony Marra. SIX-WORD STORIES: Marlon Jiminez. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Elizabet Elliot, Elizabeth Metzger, Lauren Mosely. POETRY: Marianne Boruch, Anthony Caleshu, Andrew Deloss Eaton, Ron Maclean, Matthew Zapruder. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Willa Carrol, Sue Williams.

Spring 2013 Spring 2013

FICTION: Gail Godwin, Stephanie Grant. CLASSICS: William Dean Howells. NONFICTION: Lynn Freed, Maria Hummel, Richard Smith. INTERVIEWS: James Salter. SIX-WORD STORIES: Alistair Daniel. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Karen K. Ford, Stephanie Early Green, Abe Louise Young. POETRY: David Lee, Ladan Osman, Soren Stockman, Jeanine Walker, Jenny M. Xie. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Melanie Gideon, Anthony Marra.

Winter 2013 Winter 2013

CLASSICS: Bohumil Hrabal, James Joyce. FICTION: Russell Banks, Richard Bausch. NONFICTION: Bill Barich, Maria Hummel, Anthony Marra, David Thomson. iSTORIES: Twister Marquiss, James Silberstein. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Millicent Dillon, Charlotte Holmes, Spencer Wise. POETRY: Marianne Boruch, Celia Dropkin, Norman Dubie, Bianca Lech. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Willa Carroll, Matthew Dickman.

Stories of the Week: 2012–2013 Stories of the Week: 2012–2013
Poems of the Week: 2012–2013 Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
Fall 2012 Fall 2012

CLASSICS: E. L. Doctorow. FICTION: T. C. Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Ron Hansen, Karen Peterson. NONFICTION: Lynn Ahrens, Bill Barich, Bridget Quinn. iSTORIES: Jan Ellison, Rina Piccolo. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Reed Johnson, Kirsten Valdez Quade, Taymiya R. Zaman. POETRY: David Axelrod, Willa Carroll, Eric Pankey, Kary Wayson. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: James Salter, Abraham Verghese.

Spring 2012 Spring 2012

FICTION: Elizabeth Benedict, David Bradley, Mary Morris, Douglas Silver. ISTORIES: Kay Eldredge, Jan Ellison. IPOEMS: Jenny Browne, Robert Hedin. GRAPHIC STORIES: Liza Donnelly, Michael Maslin. NONFICTION: Aleksandra Crapanzano, Bridget Quinn, Tana Wajczuk. POETRY: Rebekah Bloyd, Natalie Diaz, Judith Harris, David Hinton, Ishion Hutchinson, Diane Suess. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Rick Bass, Ann Beattie, Donald Hall.

Winter 2012 Winter 2012

FICTION: Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Amy Bloom, Alice Munro. FALL CONTEST WINNERS:Amy Parker, Nathan Poole, Gabriel Tallent. N30B WINNERS:Kirsten Clodfelter, Brian Trapp, Madhuri Vijay. NONFICTION: Timothy Ferris, Sara Faye Lieber, Jayne Anne Phillips.POETRY:Vincent Guerra, Robert Hedin, Bob Hicok, Carol Light, Will Schutt NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: James Arthur, Carol Edgarian, Robert Stone.

Stories of the Week: 2011–2012 Stories of the Week: 2011–2012
Poems of the Week: 2011–2012 Poems of the Week: 2011–2012
Fall 2011 Fall 2011

FICTION: Michael Croley, David Guterson, Jennifer Haigh, Sue Mell. NONFICTION: Rick Bass. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS:Nickolas Butler, Katie Cortese, Jan Ellison. POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Willa Carroll, Emma Gorenberg, Shivani Mehta. iSTORIES: Kay Eldredge, Rina Piccolo, James Silberstein.GRAPHIC STORIES: Hannah Sarvasy, Eliza Frye NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Rick Bass, Taha Muhammad Ali, Adam Prince.

Spring 2011 Spring 2011

FICTION: Robert Olen Butler, Robert Coover, David Guterson, Ron Hansen, Daniel Woodrell. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Kevin A. González, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Debra Spark. iSTORIES: Sherman Alexie, Michael Croley, Kay Eldredge.NONFICTION: Robert P. Baird, John Casey, Tom Jenks, Joyce Carol Oates. PHOTOGRAPHY: Twister Marquiss, Marc Petersen NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Ann Beattie, Anthony Marra, James Salter.

Winter 2011 Winter 2011

FICTION: Will Boast, Carol Edgarian, Anthony Marra, Sue Mell, Peter Orner. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Heather Brittain Bergstrom, Alexander Maksik, Russell Working. NARRATIVE 30 BELOW WINNERS: Kevin A. González, Jacob Powers, Erika Solomon. NONFICTION: Lynn Freed, Gail Godwin, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Tobias Wolff. SIX-WORD STORIES: Robert Olen Butler NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Jennifer Egan, Dan Gerber, James Salter, Sue Williams.

Stories of the Week: 2010–2011 Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
Poems of the Week: 2010–2011 Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
Fall 2010 Fall 2010

FICTION: Robert P. Baird, Michael Knight, Marry Morris, Valerie Trueblood, Daniel Woodrell. SPRING CONTEST WINNERS: Megan Mayhew Bergman, Peter Grimes, Scott Tucker. INTERVIEWS: Margaret Atwood, Geoffrey Wolff. NARRATIVE TASTE: Lynn Ahrens, Sylvie Bigar, James and Kay Salter, Dana Tommasino. NONFICTION: Tom Grimes. SIX-WORD STORIES: Sherman Alexie. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Rick Bass, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Min Jin Lee, James Workman.

Spring 2010 Spring 2010

FICTION: Ann Beattie, Lynn Freed, Adrianne Harun, Antonia Nelson, Octavia Randolph. WINTER CONTEST WINNERS: Katie Chase, Cori Jones, Adam Prince. INTERVIEWS: Mary Gaitskill, Donald Hall, Jennifer Egan. NARRATIVE TASTE: Aleksandra Crapanzano. NONFICTION: Lynn Ahrens. PROFILE: Shirley Hazzard. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Robert Olen Bulter, James Salter, Robert Stone.

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FICTION: Tom Barbash, Richard Bausch, Elizabeth Benedict, Amy Bloom, Gail Godwin. FALL CONTEST WINNERS: Dave Bausch, Joe David Bellamy, Nate Haken. INTERVIEW: Gail Godwin. NONFICTION: Gail Godwin. NARRATIVE 30 BELOW CONTEST WINNERS: Greg Brown, Christa Hillstrom, Montana Ray. NARRATIVE OUTLOUD: Rick Bass, Ann Beattie, Dan Gerber, Amy Tan.

Stories of the Week: 2009–2010 Stories of the Week: 2009–2010
Poems of the Week: 2009-2010 Poems of the Week: 2009-2010
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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, Daniel Woodrell.

Stories of the Week: 2008–2009 Stories of the Week: 2008–2009
Poems of the Week: 2008–2009 Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
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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.

Summer 2006 Summer 2006

FICTION: Alice Hoffman, 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.

Fall 2005 Fall 2005

FICTION: Ann Beattie, Jeffrey Colvin, E.L. Doctorow, Abby Frucht, 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.