Announcing the 2026 Raven Short Story Contest Longlist!

A Hoard of Stories

We are happy to announce the longlist for this year’s Raven Short Story Contest!

Find the longlisted authors, listed alphabetically by first name, below. Authors with a (2) beside their name have two stories that made the longlist.

The 2026 Raven Short Story Contest Longlist

Ashley Mao
Charity Tahmaseb
Eva Ye
Greg Terpenning
Jaime Gill (2)
Jatin Garg
Jennifer Getsinger
Kate Kaminski
Kelsey Levins
Kevin Sandefur
Kimberly Lawton
Kirsty Campbell
KT Wagner
Leslie Wibberley
M.J. Fonte
Mitchell Toews
Nicholas Stacey
Peter Norman
Petra Chambers
Sheryl Hamilton
Stephen Kramer Avitabile
Susan Down

Congratulations to these authors!

Stay tuned to see which of these stories will appear on our shortlist, and for the announcement of the winners later this month.

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Thank you to all of our submitting authors for sharing your words and supporting Pulp Literature!

Joining us again as final judge is Kelly Robson, an award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. She won the 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and her short fiction won the 2022, 2019, and 2016 Aurora Awards. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, Astounding, Aurora, and Sunburst awards.

Kelly grew up in the foothills of the Rockies, competing in rodeos and gymkhanas. From 2008 to 2012, she wrote the wine and spirits column for Chatelaine. ‘Good for Grapes’ appeared as our featured story in Pulp Literature Issue 23, Summer 2019. After twenty-two years in Vancouver, she and her wife, fellow writer AM Dellamonica, now make their home in downtown Toronto. Visit her at kellyrobson.com.