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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
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its sixth annual North Street Book Prize competition. Christine Mulvey of Grass Valley, California won the Grand Prize and $5,000 for her memoir Mine to Carry. Six category winners received $1,000 each: Jerald Pope of Swannanoa, North Carolina won First Prize…
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Seeks the best unpublished story, set of poems, and essay that engage in evocative ways with health and medicine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…
Alicia Doyle
Before I started boxing at age twenty-eight, I viewed the sport as the dark side. My paradigm shifted in 1998 when I worked as a newspaper journalist and went on assignment at a boxing gym that served at-risk youth. While reporting this story, I fell in love with boxing, and…
Marian Pierce
Marian Pierce has worked for Japan's National Public Radio, backpacked in the Himalayas, and traveled to India four times. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded the James Michener Fellowship for excellence of prose style in fiction. Her stories have appeared in GQ magazine,…
Jolie P. Hoang
I was born in war-torn Vietnam, in the small town of Quang Duc, where my father owned and operated a construction business. He got the Americans' contract to expand the village by constructing more roads, building hospitals, schools, and military barracks. My first memory of the grueling war was running…
Omaha Perez
Yes, Omaha is my actual given name; I was named for the tribe of Native Americans. Over the last 25 years, I’ve created comic books, illustrations, and graphics for DVDs, TV shows, movies, newspapers, books, magazines, and video games. Among other jobs, I have been a staff artist for Disney…
Ingrid Pierre
Ingrid Pierre is an artist and designer based in Boston, MA. In addition to her first graphic novel, Do Not Resuscitate, she has previously published an autobiographical webcomic called Secret Black Woman about being mixed-race in the United States. As a designer she has helped develop diverse software applications across…
Rashid Darden
I am Rashid Darden of Conway, North Carolina, and of Washington, DC. I am a novelist. I have written many things: the books Lazarus, Covenant, Epiphany, Yours in the Bond, Birth of a Dark Nation, Children of Fury, Time, and The Life and Death of Savion Cortez; the short stories…
Rachael A.Z. Mutabingwa
A guru I follow once said that if you want to live a fulfilling existence, you must invest what little life you have in doing the things you are passionate about, doing the things you love. Very early on in life, I learned that the thing which gave me immeasurable…
Emma Sondergaard
Emma Sondergaard is now 15 years old, but was 9 when she both wrote and illustrated her own activity book. Emma Sondergaard is attending high school in Monterey, California. She has won several Photography Awards. She still engages in all kinds of artistic expression and also loves to play volleyball,…
