For Raven Vol. 26 issue, we chose the theme "Last Call." In the United States, in a bar, last call by the bartender means your last chance to order a drink. This is important, because the next public announcement will be the bar closing and you and your friends will be heading for the door. Well, this is our last call. The Raven Chronicles, after chronicling the literary antics of tricksters and dreamers, the under-heard, the underserved (and probably underage), since 1991, will no longer publish a regularly-scheduled, subscription-based magazine. Yes, you read that right: the chronicles part of The Raven Chronicles is subsiding back into the Northwest tree pulp from whence it came. Starting with the 2016 publication of Words From the Cafe, An Anthology, edited by Anna Balint, Raven Chronicles will live on as a book publisher: Raven Chronicles Press. Gary Copeland Lilley (Poetry Editor): The Last Call-a celebration to the rest of the night, after the music, the flirtations, the fails and the successes, the noise of a bar reeking with the stains of everything that declares we are alive. So appropriate a theme for The Raven Chronicles as it transitions from lit and art journal to a book publishing press. Priscilla Long (Nonfiction Editor): This is the "Last Call" for Raven Chronicles in journal form (I salute the vibrant role it has played in the culture of our region). I am proud of this group of essays. "Last call" means things are over, finished, done, about to close down, but not forgotten, maybe never forgotten. Kathleen Alcala (Fiction Editor): After all these years of reading your stories late into the night, I am going to miss it. Yes, we grumble, but there is nothing quite like that jolt that says, this is familiar, but entirely new. This is exceptional. Now this, this is real writing. Writers contributing Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Creative Nonfiction, Reviews to this issue of Raven: Linda Amundson, Sara Bailey, Anna Balint, Paul Bamberger, Jane Blanchard, Barbara Bloom, Judith Borenin, Jessica Brown, Thomas Brush, C.W. Buckley, Donald W. Butler, T. Clear, Terri Cohlene, Minnie A. Collins, Linda Conroy, Cathy Cook, Mary E. Crane, Michael Daley, Lauren Davis, Risa Denenberg, DC Diamondopolous, Mike Dillon, Patrick Dixon, Bruce L. Dodson, Chris Espenshade, Alex Everette, Catherine Fahey, Rebeka Fergusson-Lutz, Joan Fiset, Anne Frantilla, Rich Furman, Sharon Goldberg, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, James Grabill, John Grey, Steve Griggs, Mare Heron Hake, Sharon Hashimoto, Alicia Hokanson, Thomas Hubbard, Kathryn Hunt, Paul Hunter, Heikki Huotari, Ann Batchelor Hursey, Christopher J. Jarmick, Lynn Knapp, Jeff LaBrache, Andrew Lafleche, Elizabeth Landrum, Larry Laurence, Yvonne H. Leach, Loreen Lilyn Lee, vivian linder levi, Simone Liggins, brenna lilly, Kaye Linden, Martha McAvoy Linehan, Anna Odessa Linzer, Alice Lowe, Georgia McDade, Megan McInnis, Tim McNulty, Jim Maloney, Terry Martin, Michelle Matthees, Jessica Mehta, John Mifsud, Jack Miller, Kevin Miller, Rita Mookerjee, Rocio Munoz, C.A. Murray, Jed Myers, Kevin J. O'Conner, John Olson, Sue Gale Pace, Christopher Pierson, Thomas R. Prince, Mary Randall, Jack Remick, Sherry Rind, Frank Rossini, Martin Rutley, Joel Sackett, Vaibhav Saini, Cathy Scott, Catherine Sutthoff Slaton, Kathleen Smith, Matthew J. Spireng, Joannie Stangeland, JT Stewart, Carol Sunde, Taumstar, Stephen Thomas, Mark Trechock, Ana Vidosavljevic, Elliott Villarreal, April Vomvas, Vladimir Vulovic, Jeanette Weaskus, Sarah Brown Weitzman, Marianne Weltmann, Richard Widerkehr, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Marjory Woodfield, Carolyne Wright, Danae Wright, Janet Yoder, Nicole Yurcaba,