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A Little Patience

Critique by Jendi Reiter Michelle Mae's sweet and funny picture book A Little Patience employs young children's love of imaginary friends to teach emotional regulation skills for the whole family. The story is accompanied by Marta Taylor's illustrations in friendly shades of pink, green, and yellow. Chase is a little…

Paralights

Critique by Jendi Reiter Funny and full of personality, the picture book Paralights was written and illustrated by Aiden Woosol Lee when he was only a sixth-grader. In 2019, this young creator already knew more about dynamic illustration and typo-free, age-appropriate storytelling than many of our adult entrants! Our first-round…

Finding Messi: The Miracle Cat from Kyiv

Critique by Jendi Reiter Picture books about serious issues are hard to write in a way that's both age-appropriate and properly contextualized. To avoid being too scary or complicated, sometimes too much information is omitted for the story to make sense. It's also important to find a child-level way in…

Something About the Women

Critique by Jendi Reiter The portrait compendium Something About the Women: Five Decades of Seeing by Irene Young is a photographic Who's Who of the lesbian and feminist music scene from the 1970s to today. These dynamic, joyful concert shots and posed photos include celebrities with mainstream name recognition, such…

The Fig District

Critique by Jendi Reiter Architect Jeff Shelton's art book The Fig District: Some Buildings in Downtown Santa Barbara is a joyful compendium of colorful patterns, photographs, and blueprints from eight whimsical multi-use buildings he designed in a historic California neighborhood. In a time when even expensive homes often look cheap…

The Tell

Critique by Jendi Reiter Linda I. Meyers' The Tell, a feminist memoir and family history, is a stellar example of how to turn eight decades of life into a taut narrative without filler or digressions. Culturally reminiscent of graphic novelist Will Eisner's sagas of New York City Jewish immigrant life,…

Beth SKMorris

Between November 2001 and March 2002, Beth SKMorris was a volunteer at the WTC Ground Zero Relief Project, Spring Street Warehouse in lower Manhattan, north and east of the Twin Towers. It was an art studio converted to a post-9/11 supply center warehouse and staffed by volunteers. They solicited donations…

Stephen C. Pollock

Stephen C. Pollock is a poet, essayist, physician, academician, business executive, and inventor. The twenty poems in Exits were written and edited over a period of twenty years. Designing and formatting the book required an additional two years. Steve began scribbling poems on shirt cardboard at age nine. All of…

Jeremy Sherr

Jeremy Sherr is an award-winning author and homoeopath who is passionate about storytelling and healing. His debut children's novel, The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Carol, has won 12 international writing awards and continues to captivate young readers with its imaginative journey and heartfelt lessons. Beyond his literary achievements, Jeremy…

Angelino Donnachaidh

Angelino Donnachaidh is a Mexican-American father, author, and Japanese-English translator who lives in Osaka, Japan. His fiction draws on a wide variety of genre tropes to examine how individuals navigate the borders, pathways, and interstitial wilds created by mythic, religious, and secular grand narratives to draw meaning into their own…

Mary Jumbelic

Mary Jumbelic, M.D., is an author from Central New York, and former chief medical examiner of Onondaga County. As a board-certified forensic pathologist, she has performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She received awards for her work from the National Transportation Safety Board and the New York State…

Rob Mermin

Rob Mermin studied mime in Paris with masters Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux. Rob performed with traveling circuses throughout Europe, Scandinavia, and the former Soviet Union. In 1987, Rob founded the award-winning international touring company Circus Smirkus. Having cultural exchanges with 32 countries, Smirkus was named the “United Nations of…

Jessica McCann

Jessica McCann is a historical novelist and has worked for over 30 years as a professional writer for magazines, universities, corporations, and other organizations. One of her earliest assignments as a freelancer was covering a new surgical radiation technique for destroying brain tumors, during which she was permitted to don…

Michael Demaray

Michael Demaray has written a novella and several short stories which examine the depths of the human experience. His first published novella, The Faller, is a poignant coming-of-age tale that explores the weight of family secrets, the complexity of grief, and the resilience of the human spirit. Raised in the…

Mindy Blumenfeld and Marc Lumer

Mindy Blumenfeld is a licensed clinical social worker, writer, and motivational speaker who divides her time between her passion for her work and her passion for her family. She first began her writing career when she was in the third grade and wrote a novel about a young slave in…

Sven Siekmann

Sven Siekmann was born in East Germany. He spent his formative years navigating the challenges of life under a repressive regime. In 1977, Sven's family bravely began their plans to escape East Germany in pursuit of freedom. Those plans were thwarted and his parents were arrested and imprisoned. With the…

Jessica H. Stone

Jessica H. Stone, writing as Jes Hart Stone, is an author, ghostwriter, and long-distance sailor. Jes and her Border Collie sailed together for sixteen years. They cruised the Pacific, the Caribbean, Puget Sound, and the Mexican coast. Kip celebrated his eighteenth birthday as they crossed the equator for the first…

Leah Campbell

Leah Campbell is an author specializing in romance and general fiction. During the day, she works as a Product Director at a tech company. In her free time, she enjoys writing, whether works of fiction or blogs about technology and product management. She also considers herself an avid fiber artist…

Bryan Wiggins

Bryan Wiggins is a Maine-based author known for novels that explore family and natural drama. His latest work, The Corpse Bloom, a medical thriller, was a finalist for the Maine Literary Award and Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion award, in addition to the North Street Book Prize. His previous novel, Autumn…

Michelle Mae

Michelle Mae is a children's book author and devoted mom of two, with a heartfelt mission to teach mindfulness through the magic of storytelling. Her books weave together charming characters, relatable adventures, and a dash of imagination to inspire children—and adults—to creatively navigate life's challenges. Michelle has self-published two enchanting…

Aiden Woosol Lee

Aiden Lee is a storyteller. Ever since he was little, he would think, write, and create stories that were conjured by his wild imagination. He takes great joy in the twists and turns, the characters and their development, and how the books wrap themselves up with a conclusion. This is…

Trevor Ostfeld and Iryna Chernyak

Trevor Ostfeld is an 18-year-old high school senior in New York City. In March of 2022, three weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Trevor and his dad traveled to Poland and Ukraine to deliver humanitarian supplies and to offer support for people displaced by the war. Their group from Temple Emanu-El…

Irene Young

Beginning her career in the early New York Village music scene, Irene Young's career as a photographer has spanned five decades. She has photographed musicians for more than 600 CD covers, and has produced thousands of promotional photos. Young's photographs have appeared worldwide including Us Magazine, Oprah Magazine, The New…

Jeff Shelton

Jeff Shelton is an architect in Santa Barbara, California who has been designing buildings in his hometown since 1994. After graduating from the University of Arizona School of Architecture in 1983, Jeff worked for Santa Barbara architect and philosopher Frank Robinson and then spent a decade working in Los Angeles,…

Linda I. Meyers

Linda I. Meyers is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and writer. She has been published in professional journals and academic books. The Tell is her first published memoir. In 2016, two chapters from The Tell appeared in literary journals: “The Flowers”, a top five finalist in Alligator Juniper's annual contest in…