Crab Creek Review: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction

Celebrating over twenty-five years of publishing, Crab Creek Review is dedicated
to introducing you to the best writing from the Northwest and beyond.

Summer 2010 Issue Now Available

Crab Creek Review is a perfect-bound print literary journal dedicated to publishing the best poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.

W e a r e i n t e r e s t e d i n p u blishing both emerging and established poets and writers. Over the years we have published: Naomi Shihab Nye, Rebecca Wells, William Stafford, Madeline DeFrees, David Guterson, Lyn Lifshin, Dorianne Laux, Marvin Bell, Peter Pereira, Ilya Kaminsky, David Wagoner, Kathleen Alcala, Denise Duhamel, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Peggy Shumaker, William Doreski, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Susan Rich, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Nin Andrews, Alison Pelegrin, Mary Biddinger, Frances McCue, Virgil Suarez, Nancy Pagh, Alice Fogel, Oliver de la Paz, Martha Silano, Jim Daniels, James Bertolino, Ciaran Berry, Kathleen Flenniken, Patricia Fargnoli, Sam Hamill, Tod Marshall, Joseph Powell, Alice Derry, Marjorie Manwaring, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Molly Tenenbaum, and Kary Wayson.

Order our current issue, 2011 Vol.2, here--
featuring the poetry of Nin Andrews, Karina Borowicz, Sarah Cohen, Kathleen Kirk, Joseph O. Legaspi, Fernando Perez, Mark Wagenaar and fiction by Lauren Fink and Mary Elizabeth Pope. 2011 v.2 also features creative non-fiction by Maritess Zurbano and an interview with poet Nin Andrews.
Cover Art: Lullaby Moon VII (performance still) by Lucia Neare.

Crab Creek Review publishes two issues a year.

What's New
Enter Crab Creek Review's 2012 Poetry Contest (March 1 - May 31) Guest Judge: Poet Susan Rich $200 Prize Enter up to 3 previously unpublished poems ($10 entry fee) All entries considered for publication Email submissions only Please read our complete contest guidelines: http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm To learn more about Susan Rich, visit our blog. ——— Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest Winner Contest judge, Kim Barnes has chosen "The Tenant" by Roger Sheffer as the winner of Crab Creek Review's 2011 Fiction Contest. About her decision to choose "The Tenant", Kim Barnes writes, "The best fiction takes us to that strange place where we have never been but instantly recognize as familiar, and Roger Sheffer's "The Tenant" is just that kind of story: peculiar, fascinating, and, finally, heartbreaking in its portrayal of our need to control the chaos of emotion and vulnerability when what we desire most of all is the courage to belong." Roger Sheffer has been teaching writing at Minnesota State Mankato since 1980. His most recent book publication is the story collection Music of the Inner Lakes (New Rivers). His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast, Fugue, Harpur Palate, and many other magazines. His interests, beyond writing, include hiking, rowboats, composing music, and choir singing. About his winning fiction piece, Roger writes, "I was interested in how the power differential between two characters could change, during the course of a story. That it began with a cough and ended with an eviction seemed predestined; hopefully, not too predictable." Thank you to contest judge, Kim Barnes and to our fiction editors, Jen Betterley and Nancy Canyon. Congratulations, Roger! Look for "The Tenant" in Crab Creek Review 2012 v. 1, available in spring. ——— *Purchase Crab Creek Review 2011 v.2!* Featuring: Nin Andrews, Jose Angel Araguz, Anne Barngrover, Scott Blackwell, Karina Borowicz, Erin Byrne, Sarah Cohen, Susan J. Erickson, Lauren Fink, Marie Gauthier, Emily M. Green, Katrina Hays, Sonja James, Kathleen Kirk, Adrian Gibbons Koesters, Michael Lauchlan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Amelia Martens, Lucia Neare, Fernando Perez, Mary Elizabeth Pope, Jenna Rindo, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, Mark Wagenaar, James Valvis, and Maritess Zurbano. Order your copy (and subscribe!) here. ——— Crab Creek Review Announces 2011 Pushcart Nominations and 2011 Editors' Prize Crab Creek Review has nominated the following poets and writers for this year's Pushcart Prize: Fiction: Hal Ackerman: "The Dancer Horse" 2011 v.I Poetry: Sarah Cohen: "Summer Was Made of Clicks and Hisses" 2011 v.2 Katrina Hays: "Peaches" 2011 v.2 Kelley Henry: "Because I Might Need One, Twelve Definitions of Crown" 2011 v.I Sonja James: "Never Ask a Cloud to Marry You" 2011 v.2 Cindy Stewart-Rinier: "Pre-K Pollock" 2011 v.2 The Co-Editors of Crab Creek Review (Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy) are awarding the *Crab Creek Review 2011 Editors' Prize* to Portland, OR poet and MFA student, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, for her poem, "Pre-K Pollock" (2011 v.2). Our annual Editors' Prize is awarded for the best poem, short story, or creative non-fiction essay published by Crab Creek Review in a given year. We would like to thank all of our 2011 contributors for the fantastic work they submitted to us. ——— Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest: The Winner is Announced! Thank you to all of the poets who entered Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest and special thanks to our wonderful judge, Dorianne Laux and to our poetry editor, Lana Hechtman Ayers. Winner: "Widowing" by Laura E. Davis. Honorable Mentions: "The Contours of the Lake Lost to Cloud" by Jill Osier "Boundaries" by Claire Zoghb "Seeing You" by Maya Jewell Zeller Finalists: "Gretel Remembers" by Brent Calderwood "Fairy Tale" by Rebecca Foust "Someday My Stomach Will Be a Museum" by Jill Osier "Love: Sun::" by Ben Purkert "Relative Identity" by Cindy Stewart-Rinier "Elegy/Elk River" by Michael Schmeltzer "Tautology" by Michael Schmeltzer "Departure" by John Willson "Divorce on Mars" by Francine Witte To read more about the contest results and what Dorianne Laux wrote about the winning poem, please visit Crab Creek Review's blog. Look for all of these poems in Crab Creek Review 2012 v.I. ——— Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for the 2011-2012 Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series Crab Creek Review is pleased to announce that we are a Media Sponsor for the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. We encourage our Seattle area subscribers and contributors to support SAL’s mission of presenting programs that further the arts and invite cultural dialogue. To learn more about SAL and to purchase tickets to the Poetry Series and other events, please visit their website: http://www.lectures.org. If you attend the Poetry Series, please stop by the Crab Creek Review table, browse our current issue, and chat with us. We have subscription and submission information available, as well as back issues for sale at a reduced price. The 2011-2012 SAL Poetry Series: Oct. 5th: Dorianne Laux Nov. 6th: Peter Cole, Bill Porter, and Nikolai Popov Dec. 8th: Terrance Hayes Feb. 9th: Albert Goldbarth Mar. 15th: Louise Gluck Apr. 4th: Troy Jollimore and John Koethe May 15th: Matthew and Michael Dickman Hope to see you there! ——— Please like us on Facebook! We also blog! Check out our Crab Creek Review Blog for more news, events, and read our Writers' Notebook Series, where you will learn more about the poets/writers who have been published in our journal (in their own words). ——— Crab Creek Review's Literary Advisory Board The following poets have graciously accepted our invitation to serve on our Crab Creek Review Board: Aimee Nezhukumatathil Nancy Pagh Peter Periera Susan Rich Peggy Shumaker We are delighted that these talented writers will be working with us in an advisory role. Our Fall/Winter 2009 issue features their poetry. ———

What's New

Enter Crab Creek Review's 2012 Poetry Contest (March 1 - May 31)
Guest Judge: Poet Susan Rich
$200 Prize
Enter up to 3 previously unpublished poems ($10 entry fee)
All entries considered for publication
Email submissions only
Please read our complete contest guidelines: http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm
To learn more about Susan Rich, visit our blog.

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Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest Winner
Contest judge, Kim Barnes has chosen "The Tenant" by Roger Sheffer as the winner of Crab Creek Review's 2011 Fiction Contest. About her decision to choose "The Tenant", Kim Barnes writes, "The best fiction takes us to that strange place where we have never been but instantly recognize as familiar, and Roger Sheffer's "The Tenant" is just that kind of story: peculiar, fascinating, and, finally, heartbreaking in its portrayal of our need to control the chaos of emotion and vulnerability when what we desire most of all is the courage to belong."

Roger Sheffer has been teaching writing at Minnesota State Mankato since 1980. His most recent book publication is the story collection Music of the Inner Lakes (New Rivers). His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast, Fugue, Harpur Palate, and many other magazines. His interests, beyond writing, include hiking, rowboats, composing music, and choir singing. About his winning fiction piece, Roger writes, "I was interested in how the power differential between two characters could change, during the course of a story. That it began with a cough and ended with an eviction seemed predestined; hopefully, not too predictable."

Thank you to contest judge, Kim Barnes and to our fiction editors, Jen Betterley and Nancy Canyon. Congratulations, Roger!

Look for "The Tenant" in Crab Creek Review 2012 v. 1, available in spring.

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Purchase Crab Creek Review 2011 v.2!
Featuring: Nin Andrews, Jose Angel Araguz, Anne Barngrover, Scott Blackwell, Karina Borowicz, Erin Byrne, Sarah Cohen, Susan J. Erickson, Lauren Fink, Marie Gauthier, Emily M. Green, Katrina Hays, Sonja James, Kathleen Kirk, Adrian Gibbons Koesters, Michael Lauchlan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Amelia Martens, Lucia Neare, Fernando Perez, Mary Elizabeth Pope, Jenna Rindo, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, Mark Wagenaar, James Valvis, and Maritess Zurbano.

Order your copy (and subscribe!) here.

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Crab Creek Review Announces 2011 Pushcart Nominations and 2011 Editors' Prize
Crab Creek Review has nominated the following poets and writers for this year's Pushcart Prize:

Fiction:
Hal Ackerman: "The Dancer Horse" 2011 v.I
Poetry:
Sarah Cohen: "Summer Was Made of Clicks and Hisses" 2011 v.2
Katrina Hays: "Peaches" 2011 v.2
Kelley Henry: "Because I Might Need One, Twelve Definitions of Crown" 2011 v.I
Sonja James: "Never Ask a Cloud to Marry You" 2011 v.2
Cindy Stewart-Rinier: "Pre-K Pollock" 2011 v.2

The Co-Editors of Crab Creek Review (Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy) are awarding the Crab Creek Review 2011 Editors' Prize to Portland, OR poet and MFA student, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, for her poem, "Pre-K Pollock" (2011 v.2). Our annual Editors' Prize is awarded for the best poem, short story, or creative non-fiction essay published by Crab Creek Review in a given year. We would like to thank all of our 2011 contributors for the fantastic work they submitted to us.

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Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest: The Winner is Announced!
Thank you to all of the poets who entered Crab Creek Review's 2011 Poetry Contest and special thanks to our wonderful judge, Dorianne Laux and to our poetry editor, Lana Hechtman Ayers.

Winner:
"Widowing" by Laura E. Davis.
Honorable Mentions:
"The Contours of the Lake Lost to Cloud" by Jill Osier
"Boundaries" by Claire Zoghb
"Seeing You" by Maya Jewell Zeller
Finalists:
"Gretel Remembers" by Brent Calderwood
"Fairy Tale" by Rebecca Foust
"Someday My Stomach Will Be a Museum" by Jill Osier
"Love: Sun::" by Ben Purkert
"Relative Identity" by Cindy Stewart-Rinier
"Elegy/Elk River" by Michael Schmeltzer
"Tautology" by Michael Schmeltzer
"Departure" by John Willson
"Divorce on Mars" by Francine Witte

To read more about the contest results and what Dorianne Laux wrote about the winning poem, please visit Crab Creek Review's blog. Look for all of these poems in Crab Creek Review 2012 v.I.

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Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for the 2011-2012 Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
Crab Creek Review is pleased to announce that we are a Media Sponsor for the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. We encourage our Seattle area subscribers and contributors to support SAL’s mission of presenting programs that further the arts and invite cultural dialogue. To learn more about SAL and to purchase tickets to the Poetry Series and other events, please visit their website: http://www.lectures.org. If you attend the Poetry Series, please stop by the Crab Creek Review table, browse our current issue, and chat with us. We have subscription and submission information available, as well as back issues for sale at a reduced price.
The 2011-2012 SAL Poetry Series:
Oct. 5th: Dorianne Laux
Nov. 6th: Peter Cole, Bill Porter, and Nikolai Popov
Dec. 8th: Terrance Hayes
Feb. 9th: Albert Goldbarth
Mar. 15th: Louise Gluck
Apr. 4th: Troy Jollimore and John Koethe
May 15th: Matthew and Michael Dickman
Hope to see you there!

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Please like us on Facebook!

We also blog! Check out our Crab Creek Review Blog for more news, events, and read our Writers' Notebook Series, where you will learn more about the poets/writers who have been published in our journal (in their own words).

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Crab Creek Review's Literary Advisory Board
The following poets have graciously accepted our invitation to serve on our Crab Creek Review Board:
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Nancy Pagh
Peter Periera
Susan Rich
Peggy Shumaker
We are delighted that these talented writers will be working with us in an advisory role. Our Fall/Winter 2009 issue features their poetry.

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