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Fireproofing the Woods

Critique by Jendi Reiter The title of Katy McKinney's poetry book Fireproofing the Woods at first suggests an impossible, foolish undertaking: doesn't it contradict the first thing we learn about wood, that it burns? Before I even turned the first page, it seemed a metaphor for the despair that many…

Little Moss, Big Tree

Critique by Jendi Reiter Melissa Yap-Stewart's picture book Little Moss, Big Tree, illustrated by Mariya Prytula, is a gentle and imaginative allegory of friendship that endures through change, distance, and death. The title characters become friends when both are small, and develop creative ways to stay in touch when the…

Mama’s Needle

Critique by Ellen LaFleche The judges and screeners were in agreement about loving Mama's Needle, Jeanette W. Stickel's excellent children's book about a young African-American boy whose mother is an artistically gifted quilter. She uses her needle not only to patch clothes but to create a beautiful quilt for his…

Lay of the Land

Critique by Ellen LaFleche Lay of the Land, J.R. Weber's dramatic play in verse, is one of the most creative entries we've received in the history of our contest. Meticulously researched, with an extensive bibliography, this Grand Prize winning book portrays the 1862 attack by Mdewakanton Sioux warriors against a…

North Street Book Prize 2019

Honoring the best self-published books of poetry, children’s picture books, graphic narrative, genre fiction, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction

Abigail Anklam

Abigail Anklam began making books in kindergarten, and she will probably never stop. As a writer and artist, she has always enjoyed telling stories on paper, and that passion has only grown with time. One of her favorite topics in any story has always been wildlife. Whether fictional or true,…

Bob Sylva

Bob Sylva is a native Sacramentan. He enjoyed a long career at The Sacramento Bee, where, well before the era of farm-to-fork, he wrote seasonal features and a column which showcased the city's then-unheralded diversity. Today, he continues to write, struggles to acquire a primitive French, and spends hours in…

Molly Lazer

Molly Lazer's first novel, Owl Eyes: A Fairy Tale, was published by Fire & Ice YA in 2018. This retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale has been a finalist for several awards, including the National Indie Excellence Awards and the Dante Rossetti Award. Her short story collection, Lentils in Black…

Suanne Laqueur

A former professional dancer and teacher, Suanne Laqueur went from choreographing music to choreographing words. Her cross-genre style has been described as Therapy Fiction, Emotionally Intelligent Romance, and Contemporary Train Wreck. Laqueur's novel An Exaltation of Larks was the Grand Prize winner in the 2017 Writer's Digest Awards. Her debut…

Alexander Watson

Home was the perfect storm of language. My mother, a single parent with a BA in English, believed that good taste was nothing more than what was appropriate. Nudity at a skinny dip was in good taste; formal wear on Opening Night was in good taste; words, properly used, were…

Joan Alden

Joan Alden, a graduate of Ohio State University, BS and MS, and the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in New York City, didn't begin writing until she was 34 years old, working backstage at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. Two years later, she published her first novel, Mrs. Cooper's…

Li Mo

I grew up with spirits of the ancestors, the trees, stones, ponds, moving waters, clouds, birds, beasts of all kinds, earthly ones like water buffaloes, pigs, cranes, rabbits, monkeys and imaginary ones like dragons, phoenixes, unicorns and angels; even insects possessed spirits. And the dead's spirits intrigue me the most,…

Jessica Goody

Jessica Goody's debut poetry collection Defense Mechanisms consists of seventy-five poems, mostly free verse, deeply personal confessional and narrative pieces. Jessica has cerebral palsy, and the public perception of disability and the many aspects of living with a handicap are topics she frequently explores in her work. Anyone who struggles…

Stephen Barnwell

Stephen Barnwell fell in love with publishing rather late in life. At the age of fifty-four he designed and published his first book entitled Capital Offenses, a monograph of his political satire artwork. Unexpectedly, his very first book was named a “Best Books of 2014” by Booklife/Publishers Weekly. His six…

Dmitri Jackson

Dmitri Jackson is a graphic novelist, freelance illustrator, and photographer. He also serves as instructional technologist for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Jackson's work has been featured in Riverfront Times, The Believer, and American Illustration 40. He also manages Frotoon…

Melissa Yap-Stewart

M. Yap-Stewart, also known as Yap Fong Yee, can usually be found on set doing whatever it is that script supervisors do…which is actually quite a lot! She is pretty proud to have an IMDB page, having worked on Evil (2019), Russian Doll (2019) and Orange Is the New Black…

Jeanette Stickel

Jeanette Stickel is an award-winning author of poetry and has authored several books for children, speech therapists, teachers and parents. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Jeanette has provided speech therapy in schools and speech clinics in California,…

J.R. Weber

I never wanted to be an astronaut. I did want to be a major-league catcher, a composer, a ship's captain, a famous preacher, the tallest, handsomest guy in school. I have been none of those. I have been a small-animal whisperer, a dad, a teacher, an editor of academic and…