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Imane Terhmina
Imane Terhmina is Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies at Cornell University, where she teaches African literature and culture. Originally from Rabat, Morocco, she holds a BA in Biology and French from Mount Holyoke College and a PhD in French Studies from Yale University. She likes to describe herself as culturally…
Hannah Louise Poston
Hannah Louise Poston is a poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program and a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which she attended as the Thomas Wolfe Scholar in Creative Writing. Hannah has taught poetry…
R.D. Bailey
Raquel D. Bailey is the founder and editor-in-chief of Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, an online journal of Japanese short-form poetry, micropoetry, and short fiction. She earned her BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Bailey's poems have appeared in more than fifty publications worldwide. She is the 2019 winner…
Judith Antelman
Judith Antelman is a poet and writer who grew up in Passaic, New Jersey. Her passion for travel landed her in cities as far away from home as San Francisco and then eastward to Berlin and Krakow. After traveling and living between Passaic and Poland, she has found a home—for…
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Kayleb Rae Candrilli is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. They are the author of Water I Won't Touch, All the Gay Saints, and What Runs Over. All the Gay Saints was the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia book contest,…
Anne Delana Reeves
Anne Delana Reeves is a writer, photographer, and educator. About her work she says, “How memory binds itself with place, landscape, and history, making us who we are, provides the catalyst for many of my poems. For me, this idea corresponds to William Faulkner's directive for writers to explore 'old…
Maria Greer
Maria Greer was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Missoula, Montana, where she attended K-12 at multiple schools called Hellgate. She earned a BA in History from Stanford University in 2015. While still an undergraduate, she taught a course on fanfiction for the English department, was awarded a Cantor…
Amber Edwards
A.J. Edwards was born and raised in the woods of Massachusetts. She studied English Literature, Spanish, and Classics at Assumption College, as well as Hispanic Linguistics for a brief period in Salamanca, Spain. There, she had the pleasure of turning the pages of one of the incunables, some of the…
Threa Almontaser
Threa Almontaser is an award-winning author and multimedia artist from New York. She holds a B.A. and M.F.A. in addition to a TESOL certification from North Carolina State University. She is an editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal and a national board member in the American Association of Yemeni Students and…
Tony Keith Jr.
Originally from Washington, DC, Anthony R. Keith, Jr., Ph.D. (Tony) is a Black, gay spoken word artist, poet, and Hip-Hop educator. Or, you can just call him an “Ed Emcee”. Dr. Keith began writing poems as a kid growing up in the '80s and '90s as a way to express…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2020
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Apples and Stones
By Alice Wolf Gilborn
Sarah Halper
Sarah Halper is an assistant judge of our North Street Book Prize and our Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. She earned her undergraduate degree in English History and Literature at Harvard and her graduate degree at The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Keith Wheeler Books
Lively, informative short videos give advice on writing, designing, and marketing your self-published books
Vernon Keeve III
Vernon Keeve III (Trey), assistant judge of our Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest, is a Virginia-born writer, living and teaching in Oakland. They hold an MFA from California College of the Arts and an MA in Teaching Literature from Bard College. Their full-length collection of poetry, Southern Migrant Mixtape, was…
The Queen of Egypt
By Geoffrey Heptonstall
Christine Mulvey Wins the $5,000 Grand Prize in Our Sixth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition for Self-Published Books
Results of our sixth competition for self-published books
Black History Month Collection at Copper Canyon Press
Notable Black authors published by a leading poetry press
The Perkoff Prize sponsored by the Missouri Review
Seeks the best unpublished story, set of poems, and essay that engage in evocative ways with health and medicine
The Poem I Wish I Had Read
YouTube channel of contemporary poets reading work that would have inspired their younger selves
Adavera by Rachael A.Z. Mutabingwa
The prequel to Kunda, winner of First Prize for Genre Fiction in the 2020 North Street competition
Fighting Chance by Alicia Doyle
First Prize for Creative Nonfiction & Memoir, 2020 North Street Book Prize
Stoned
By Des Mannay
Subscriber News: February 2021
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
ScreenplaySubs
Stream the screenplay alongside a Netflix film to understand the transition from page to stage
DMQ Virtual Salon
Videos of contemporary poets reading from their new collections
20.35 Africa
Resource institution and publisher for African poets
Know Your Rights: Key Provisions in a Publishing Contract
Literary agent and attorney Joseph Perry explains typical contract terms
In the Pink Arms of the City
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Let me begin by noting that Toni Thomas's poetry collection In the Pink Arms of the City wins my unofficial award for most aesthetically pleasing book. Each section opens with pencil sketches by Peter Wadsworth that reinforce the book's themes. The cover photo, taken by Thomas…
Essayist App
Automatically format your papers according to MLA or APA citation styles
Pinpoint
Software for organizing research documents
Anchorless
Critique by Ellen LaFleche The opening paragraphs of Jolie Hoang's compelling novel Anchorless (based on true events) not only showcase her beautifully rendered lyric prose, but pull the reader into her family's story of escape from the war in Vietnam, retold in vivid detail through the words of her father's…
Kunda
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Written by Ugandan author Rachael A.Z. Mutabingwa, Kunda is the recipient of my unofficial “must read” award for this year's contest. A lush blend of magic realism, tropical island life, spirituality, civil war, and love and loss, this is the story of two families connected by…
If I Could Be a Zebra
Critique by Ellen LaFleche If I Could Be a Zebra by Zarle Williams, illustrated by Stef Grinder, is a humorous, beautifully illustrated alphabet book with the kind of whimsical verse that little kids love. The odd shape of the book—tall and narrow with ring binders that make turning the pages…
Children of Fury
Critique by Jendi Reiter Rashid Darden's urban fantasy novel Children of Fury: Dark Nation III puts a fresh spin on the “chosen one” trope, starring a gay Black youth and his classmates at a Washington, DC remedial school who are selected by immortal mentors to fight an evil cult. Delonté…
A China Story
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Every contest cycle, a category emerges that has stronger entries than all the others. Last year, the strongest category was poetry. This year, by far, the strongest category was memoir. To earn recognition in memoir this year is a distinction worthy of special praise. Ying Qian's…
Mine to Carry
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Christine Mulvey's memoir Mine to Carry is by far the strongest book I've encountered during the years I've helped to judge this contest. The writing is a perfectly woven tapestry of lyric description, narrative, dialogue, story, and philosophical and religious musings. It's extremely hard to weave…
Migration Memories
Critique by Jendi Reiter Dennis Reed's coming-of-age memoir Migration Memories: Brooklyn Blues is the story of a young Black man steering a course between the strong currents of different worlds that pull at his loyalties. The book covers a pivotal year in his early life, when he was one of…
Look, Black Boy
Critique by Jendi Reiter Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey's concise and high-impact poetry collection Look, Black Boy has the rhythmic verve and immediacy of spoken-word poetry, yet loses nothing in its transition to print. Rather, Rainey takes advantage of the visual medium to experiment with line spacing, punctuation, and layout…
Goodbye, My Dear Grandma: An Activity Book for Grieving Children
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Most kids will lose at least one grandparent during their childhood, and that is exactly what happened to Emma Sondergaard, the author of this extraordinary children's book, Goodbye, My Dear Grandma: An Activity Book for Grieving Children. The author's first-person profile explains how this tender and…
Finding Land
Critique by Jendi Reiter Marian Pierce's literary short fiction collection, Finding Land: Stories of Japan, centers on an expat Jewish-American woman's efforts to ground herself in her husband's homeland. We first meet Deborah as a young newlywed, struggling to adjust to a different culture's notions of personal space and respect…
Fighting Chance
Critique by Jendi Reiter Award-winning journalist Alicia Doyle's unique, fast-paced memoir Fighting Chance recounts her transformation into an amateur boxer in the late 1990s, and how this demanding sport helped her process her buried rage and pain from a volatile childhood. At age 28, as a reporter for the Ventura…
Fetch
Critique by Jendi Reiter In Jerald Pope's wordless illustrated narrative, Fetch, an old man and his shaggy dog go out to a windswept field of tall grass to chase a ball…one last time. This gentle story will speak to readers of all ages who have lost a loved one. I…
Bodhisattva
Critique by Jendi Reiter Bodhisattva by Omaha Perez is an ambitious, unsettling graphic novel in which a cosmic struggle between compassion and destruction plays out through the possessed denizens of a seedy mental hospital in 2003 San Francisco. Hindu gods and karmic debts, as well as the Buddhist notion of…
Do Not Resuscitate
Critique by Ellen LaFleche One of our contest screeners said of Ingrid Pierre's graphic novel Do Not Resuscitate: “This is a beautifully drawn story about death and the inability to let go.” My co-judge Jendi Reiter saw this entry as “one of the best-executed graphic novels we've seen in terms…
North Street Book Prize 2020
Honoring the best self-published books of poetry, children’s picture books, graphic novel & memoir, genre fiction, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction & memoir
Toni Thomas
If there was ever a child with a habit of rolling in boxes down cut glass hills and skinning her knees… it was me. From a young age I listened for sounds in the dark, fell off stoops, imagined rabbits taking over the basement, wondered how much hair the black…
Caleb Rainey
Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey is an author, performer, and producer. He hails from Columbia, Missouri, and holds a bachelor's degree in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Iowa. His debut book, Look, Black Boy, became Amazon's #1 new release in African American poetry and was featured on Iowa…
Dennis Reed
Dennis Reed is a former member of the infamous poetry group, BUD JONES. A native new yorker, Mr. Reed attended New York City Public Schools where he was awarded the Jean S. Grossimer Award for Excellence in English. His early influences include the poets Fatisha, Mervyn Taylor and the novelist…
Ying Qian
When Ying Qian was growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, only Mao's works were printed and nothing else. Without new books, she read the classic novels—those that had not been destroyed by the Red Guards—in her mother's apartment again and again until the covers were missing and the…
