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Greta Rosenberger
Greta Rosenberger is a North Street Book Prize assistant judge and book critiquer who lives on the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Longmont, Colorado. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Master's degree in World and Comparative Literature in 2025, and has spent the last 20 years providing…
Teleprompter Pro
Apple-compatible app lets you look at the camera while reading text
Anne Brown Essay Prize
1,500 pounds prize, deadline change: received by June 15
Landfall Tauraka Essay Prize
NZ$3,000 prize, deadline change: received by July 31
ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction
$5,000 prize, deadline change: received by June 1
James Laughlin Award
$5,000 prize, deadline change: received by June 15
Winning Writers Announces the Winners of the 11th Annual North Street Book Prize
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 11th annual North Street Book Prize competition. Teresa Tennyson of North Sandwich, New Hampshire, won this year's Grand Prize across all genres for her speculative novel Five Years , which focuses on a small New England town's response to humanity's…
Teresa Tennyson Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our 11th Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 11th annual North Street Book Prize competition
Teresa Tennyson
Teresa Tennyson
Three Books that Almost Won a North Street Book Prize
Managing Editor’s blog: Some of our favorite near-misses from this year’s contest
Jim Walker
Trio House Press
Trio Award for a First or Second Book for Poetry and Louise Bogan Poetry Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence
Novel-In-Progress Bookcamp & Writing Retreat
Three immersive programs at the Siena Retreat Center on the stunning shores of Lake Michigan
The History of Everything In Thirteen Easy Lessons
By James K. Zimmerman
The Jamaican Bobsled Captain by Ben Stubenberg
Winner, 2025 North Street Book Prize, First Prize for Creative Nonfiction
Final Draft
Screenwriting software plus archive of craft articles
Erasure: It’s For Nonfiction Writers Too!
Kristine Langley Mayer discusses the genesis and rules of the erasure essay
Subscriber News: February 2026
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
The Protagonist Problem
Speculative fiction authors Ada Palmer and Jo Walton encourage storytelling that gives more characters agency
The Wages of Love
Critique by Jendi Reiter The Wages of Love , a poetry collection by Christie Max Williams, is a polished collection with a unified voice, drawing on themes of fathers and sons, marital eros, and an older man's perspective on the romantic fantasies of his youth. His poems are able to…
Homage
Critique by Jendi Reiter Kathleen Spivack's poetry chapbook Homage is comprised of tributes to guiding figures in her life as an artist, from cellist Pablo Casals and painter Gustav Klimt to poets Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, as well as personal mentors and ancestors. This tightly conceived collection shows a…
Kris Kringle and the Great Magic Swindle
Critique by Jendi Reiter Michael Wardner's middle-grade novel Kris Kringle and the Great Magic Swindle is a witty romp that will entertain both children and adults. Santa's elves have quit, and the Supreme Council of Sorcery, Witchcraft, and Tricks is about to revoke his magic license. But there's a bigger…
The Truthful Story
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter Helen Stine's historical novel The Truthful Story has crossover appeal for sophisticated and sensitive Middle Grade readers and for adult fans of upmarket fiction. Set in a small island community in lowcountry South Carolina in 1965-67, the story opens with 10-year-old narrator Genny Donovan learning…
Mbegu
Critique by Jendi Reiter Atukunda Rachael Mutabingwa's Mbegu , the third book in her series about the fictional African island nation of Adavera, dramatizes the conflict between authoritarian religion and direct experience of divine love. The clash, and the hope for its reconciliation, comes to a head with a romance…
A Peculiar Legacy
Critique by Jendi Reiter Rashid Darden's literary novel A Peculiar Legacy lovingly portrays a tight-knit Black neighborhood in Washington, DC where a newly arrived gay couple and a Quaker matriarch do their best to mentor the local teenagers after one of the youths is murdered. First-round judge Annie Mydla said,…
Pumpkin Guts: The Hellbound Halloween
Critique by Jendi Reiter Pumpkin Guts: The Hellbound Halloween , written and illustrated by Jacoby A. Matott, is a colorfully grotesque graphic novel that pays homage to teen slasher movies, with sassy characters who crack jokes about the tropes that they're reenacting. (The one Black teen, for instance, decides to…
Coyote Peak
Critique by Jendi Reiter You know that guy in your friend group whom you don't really like, and who doesn't really like you, but somehow you keep hanging out together, because he propels you into adventures that you don't dare attempt on your own? Marc Hess' graphic novel Coyote Peak…
Uplift
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter Jessica Mann's ecological fantasy novel Uplift tells a story of interspecies cooperation through the coming-of-age journey of a Clark's Nutcracker, a bird of the high mountains of the American West and a member of the crow family. Breaking with her family's insular ways, Columbina learns…
Brute the Brewmaster
Critique by Jendi Reiter The titular hero of Michael Paul Johnson's cozy swords-and-sorcery novel Brute the Brewmaster is a big lug with a heart of gold. Magically enhanced with super-strength to help King Colhart defend Rivinia's independence against the UnderRealm empire, Brutus Tornatore loses the will to fight after his…
The Jamaican Bobsled Captain
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter Ben Stubenberg's The Jamaican Bobsled Captain: Dudley “Tal” Stokes and the untold story of struggle, suffering, and redemption behind Cool Runnings is a book that makes me glad we expanded our Creative Nonfiction category to include narrative journalism and biography. A former US government worker,…
Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and a Daughter’s Quest for Justice
Critique by Jendi Reiter Dr. Joanne Intrator's memoir, Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and a Daughter's Quest for Justice, chronicles her successful nine-year legal battle to win reparations from the German government for a building that the Nazis stole from her father's family. Her training as a psychiatrist specializing in…
King James Virgin: A Holiness Memoir
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter “It was late in the fall, right at hog-killing time, when we got the bad news about the president.” So begins Elizabeth Hatton's King James Virgin: A Holiness Memoir , a reconstruction of the beliefs and lifeways of her family's Pentecostal Holiness community in rural…
Night of the Reading Dead
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter How can one kid fend off a horde of (small and oddly adorable) zombies? The answer, of course, is brains …but not in the expected way. That's the endearing premise of Night of the Reading Dead by Bryce Craps, illustrated by Manurro. This book had…
Sticks and Stones
Critique by Jendi Reiter Good picture books about spiritual traditions other than Christianity and Judaism are hard to find on bookshelves, and even rarer in our contest. As a pagan, I was predisposed to have a soft spot for Sticks and Stones , written by Cassie Brooks with illustrations by…
My Body Beeps! Growing Up with Diabetes
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter Katherine Lockwood's cheery and educational picture book My Body Beeps! Growing Up with Diabetes , illustrated by Olga Sall, features an active little girl named Katie who just wants to play hide-and-seek like her other friends, but she is worried about the sound of her…
One Leaf, One Life
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter Dr. Ramiro F. Prudencio's art book One Leaf, One Life showcases his colored-pencil portraits of fallen autumn leaves, accompanied by lyrical reflections about the themes and memories that their shapes suggest. The book is a handsome hardcover with gold-embossed lettering over a russet maple leaf…
The Endless Sphere of Time
Critiqu e by Jendi Reiter The Endless Sphere of Time , edited by Kate Jordahl, is an art book with remarkable production values and international scope. This luxuriously bound book pairs Geir Jordahl's circular black-and-white images of liminal spaces in nature and architecture with short works by Norwegian modernist poet…
Five Years
Critique by Jendi Reiter Teresa Tennyson's speculative novel Five Years imagines humanity facing imminent extinction due to climate change and collapse of the ecosystem, symbolized by the extinction of bees. For the residents of one New England town, the existential question is whether they can face the end with dignity…
North Street Book Prize 2025
Honoring the best self-published and hybrid-published books of poetry, children’s picture books, middle grade books, art books, graphic novels & memoirs, genre fiction, mainstream/literary fiction, and creative nonfiction & memoir
Christie Max Williams
Christie Max Williams' debut poetry collection, The Wages of Love , won the William Meredith Poetry Prize. He also recently won the competition for and was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of Stonington, Connecticut. His poetry has been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and has won the Grolier Prize…
Helen Stine
Helen Stine's multi-award-winning debut novel is set near Charleston, South Carolina, where she was born and raised. The Truthful Story is based on those early years living on the river, “out in the country”, surrounded by the people and places that shaped her life. After receiving her undergraduate degree in…
Michael Wardner
Michael Wardner was born and raised in California but now lives just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in a very small town called Pine Lake. He was an English major at UC Berkeley as an undergraduate and received an MFA in Film Production from the Academy of Art University. He has…
Marc Hess and Ira Bobrovska
Ukrainian artist Ira Bobrovska studied fine arts in Odesa, where she received a classical academic education. Based now in Barcelona, Ira's professional work includes illustrations for children's books, video games, articles, and comics. Ira met American writer Marc Hess at the International Arts Residency Can Serrat in El Bruc, Catalonia,…
Jacoby A. Matott
Jacoby Ambrose Matott is an award-winning artist who was born in rural northwestern Wisconsin. In his youth, he was always drawn to the macabre. Halloween wasn't just one day of the year; it was a lifestyle. Any excuse to make and wear costumes was taken. Family trips to the video…
Michael Paul Johnson
Michael Paul Johnson was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City during the 1990s. After his father passed away from cancer, he found a way to process his grief through writing. He is a member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society, having studied English Literature at…
Jessica Mann
Jessica Mann is a multi-award-winning author and naturalist based in Teton Valley, Idaho and Ojai, California. A lifelong observer of the natural world, she crafts realistic animal fiction that invites readers to “see” through the eyes of wild birds and animals. Her debut novel, Uplift , reflects her signature blend…
Joanne Intrator
Joanne Intrator's life has been shaped by being the daughter of German Jewish refugees. Since childhood, she pondered why people perpetrate atrocities on their fellow human beings. After studying European history at Connecticut College, she received an MD from Columbia University and became a psychiatrist. She did a fellowship in…
Elizabeth Hatton
Elizabeth Hatton was born in Berea, Kentucky, and educated at Berea College and the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. She spent more than two decades on active duty as a psychiatrist in the US Army, followed by years caring for patients with severe mental illness in a state hospital.…
Ben Stubenberg
In 2011 Ben Stubenberg quit his job as a Department of Defense threat analyst and moved to the Turks and Caicos Islands. The 180 move had been a long time coming—almost a half-century since he had lived on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. As a private pilot back…
Bryce Craps
From a former zombie-phobe to storyteller, Bryce knows a thing or two about overcoming fear. After years of coming up with wild and silly story ideas just for fun, Bryce ventured into children's literature with a story that tackles friendship and problem-solving in the face of a zombie-filled world. With…
