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How to Build an Author Website
Publishing expert Jane Friedman’s guide to getting started on this essential marketing tool
PEN America’s Prison Writing Program
Long-running program gives mentorship and publication opportunities to incarcerated writers
Book Publishers Who Specialize in Diversity and Inclusion
Here Wee Read’s list of multicultural publishers for juvenile and adult literature
J.R. Weber Wins the Grand Prize in Our Fifth Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its fifth annual North Street Book Prize competition for self-published books. J.R. Weber of Ewa Beach, Hawaii won the Grand Prize and $3,000 for his verse-drama Lay of the Land . Six category winners received $1,000 each: Jeanette Stickel of Mendocino,…
J.R. Weber Wins Our Grand Prize in our Fifth Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its fifth annual North Street Book Prize competition for self-published books
Writer Beware: The Impersonation Game
Scam-busting site tells you how to spot con artists masquerading as well-known agencies or publishers
Wrath-Bearing Tree
Online literary journal about war and social justice
How to Help Prisoners Get Books
NYC Books Through Bars explains how to help or start a prisoner support program
A Late Memorial
By Geoffrey Heptonstall
Spirit Bridges by Li Mo
Winner of the 2019 North Street Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction & Memoir
Montreal International Poetry Prize
Win $20,000 CAD for one poem
The Submission Grinder
Database of fiction and poetry markets includes statistics on their response time and acceptance rate
Subscriber News: February 2020
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Brittle Paper: An African Literary Experience
Book blog covering the contemporary African literary scene
This Book Is Anti-Racist
By Tiffany Jewell
Writer’s Knowledge Base
Search engine indexes over 40,000 articles on writing
Reading Well for Children Booklist
UK wellness charity recommends books for kids about health and emotional issues
Jane Friedman’s Guide to Getting the Most Out of a Writing Conference
Publishing expert Jane Friedman gives advice on conference selection, networking, and speaking on panels
Poetry Cooperative
Online forum with free and paid tiers, with opportunities to get paid for your poetry
Plenitude Magazine
Canadian online journal publishes queer writers
Nothing in the Rulebook
UK-based online magazine with competitions listings, writing news, feature articles
I Am a Rothko Painting
By Kevin Hinkle
Best Fonts for Books
Book distributor IngramSpark offers advice on readable design
100 Common Publishing Terms
Writer’s Digest editor Robert Lee Brewer defines the basics
Spirit Bridges
Critique by Jendi Reiter Li Mo's imagistic, introspective memoir Spirit Bridges depicts a childhood indelibly marked by political trauma, a lost young woman's coming of age in the American counterculture of the 1960s-70s, and a midlife re-integration of herself through the visual and performing arts. Born in Shanghai in 1947,…
Her Widow
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Full disclosure: after losing three family members, including my husband, in a harrowing three-month period, I read many books about grief. These included self-help manuals about grief as well as personal memoirs. While it's always helpful, if not comforting, to read about a shared experience, a…
According to Their Kinds
Critique by Ellen LaFleche This slim volume of animal-centered short stories was among my favorites this year. In According to Their Kinds , Abigail Anklam uses her knowledge of the physical and emotional life of animals to create six entertaining yet disturbing short stories. Annie Keithline, one of our contest…
Hands Holding Firm
By Thelma T. Reyna
An Exaltation of Larks
Critique by Jendi Reiter A family saga centered on a bisexual love triangle, Suanne Laqueur's An Exaltation of Larks took me on a nostalgic trip back to the peak publishing years of the epic popular novel—those generation-spanning tales by authors like Howard Fast, Belva Plain, and Colleen McCullough that were…
The ADD Writer
Author and writing teacher Michael Jackman shares tips for writing productively with attention deficit disorder
Willoughby’s World of Wonder
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Read Willoughby's World of Wonder by Stephen Barnwell and take a trip into the Jungian collective unconscious, into a fantasy world of fairies, goblins, ogres, and trolls. Bugbears and merfolk! Bookhounds and tooth faeries and centaurs, oh my! Jendi and I have spirited debates about the…
Blackwax Boulevard
Critique by Jendi Reiter Dmitri Jackson's Blackwax Boulevard: Five Years, What a Surprise (2012-2017) anthologizes the first five years of his webcomic about a struggling inner-city record store and the passionate misfits who call it home. It's an affectionate, visually snappy portrait of a found family united by music fandom,…
The King of Karaoke
Critique by Jendi Reiter In his short story collection The King of Karaoke , Bob Sylva, a retired newspaper columnist for The Sacramento Bee, depicts the diversity and resilience of immigrant life in his native city. Sadness and struggle lend these tales a realistic flavor, but they end on a…
Lentils in Black Rice
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Fairy tales and myths have survived across time and culture, and constitute a rich repository of archetypes. Fairy tale “retellings” abound in poetry and fiction these days; they often provide a modern backdrop as well as surprise plot twists and psychological commentary on current social and…
River Queens
Critique by Jendi Reiter Alexander Watson's lively travelogue-memoir River Queens chronicles a middle-aged gay couple's unlikely odyssey across the rural South in a vintage wooden yacht. Seemingly on a whim, and at a crossroads in their career of renovating and flipping houses, Watson and his partner Dale Harris visited a…
Defense Mechanisms
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Jessica Goody's poetry collection Defense Mechanisms was among my three favorite entries in this year's contest. As I judge each book, I write copious comments and notes in the margins, all the while mercilessly fact-checking for accuracy. A sampling of my spontaneous comments during my first…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
