NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines
Carve Magazine
PO Box 701510
Dallas, TX 75370
Email: editor <at> carvezine <dot> com
Web: www.carvezine.com
Issues per year: 4 ISSN: 1529-272X Founded: 2000
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes, electronic submissions Reading period: year-round Response time: 3-6 months Payment: yes, see website Contests: yes (see website)
Print issues: annual paperback anthology
Publisher's Description: Carve Magazine publishes exclusively short stories on a quarterly basis. The magazine is named in honor of Raymond Carver, short story pioneer and master of the minimalist form. Each year the annual Raymond Carver short story contest highlights superior works of fiction, awarding over $2500 in prize money.
Each issue is truly unique, featuring a new artistic photo as the cover and a complementary color scheme for the site. The stories are entertaining and profound, representing a range of talent in both craft and story. A yearly paperback anthology is available, featuring all of the year’s online stories in a handsome print and bound format. And our staff page features campy pictures and short blurbs about each of us, so that you know we’re more than just a name on a masthead; we’re people (and writers) just like you. In addition there are book recommendations, letters to (and from) the editor, and the growing archives.
Carve Magazine placed #11 in the top 20 online literary magazines at www.everywritersresource.com. It also had 5 notable stories selected for the 2008 Million Writers Award. In short, if you’re looking for a magazine that is simply sophisticated and consistently delivers quality fiction, look no further than Carve Magazine.
Recent issues:
Spring 2009 – Two stories featured: “Weather Girls” by Marylou Fusco and “Poetry” by Dionne Irving. Both are told from 2nd person point-of-view, but the similarities end there. In Fusco’s piece, you’re a high school girl obsessed with weather and natural disasters. In Irving’s story, you're a woman progressing through life and relationships with only one true love: poetry.
December 2008 – Four stories featured: Gillian King’s “The Dead Kid,” nominated for Pushcart Prize and Million Writers Award; Stacy Elaine Dacheux’s “Horses,” a wonderfully weird and disturbing take on equine therapy; Emily Bromfield’s “One Way to Cook an Eel,” certain to take away any appetite for eels and relationships; and Meagan Cass’ “The Candy House of Roscoe, New York,” an adventurous adult fairy tale of sorts.