Annie Mydla

Annie Mydla is the managing editor of Winning Writers. Born in Boston in 1989, she moved to Poland at the age of twenty-seven, where she now lives full time. Annie has critiqued over 600 full-length books and manuscripts through her work with the Winning Writers critique service and the North Street Book Prize, and read over 8,000 self-published books as a North Street assistant judge. She and her team deliver North Street judging feedback to approximately 1,500 authors per year. Annie oversees a staff of five in Poland, coordinates contest administration and customer service, and helps maintain the Winning Writers website. She is a literary scholar and writer. Check out her Winning Writers blog posts on writing craft and industry success. Outside of work, Annie is the founder and facilitator of Autistic Women's Group (est. 2021) and the editor of its journal for literary, visual, and audio art, AWG Shares Magazine.