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Guide to Finding Your Published Poems at the Library of Congress

Help from Library of Congress for tracking down your work in amateur anthologies

Best and Worst Self-Publishing Services Rated by the Alliance of Independent Authors

Ratings and reviews for dozens of self-publishing services

Waiting for Walker

Critique by Jendi Reiter Robin Reardon's earnest, heartwarming Young Adult novel Waiting for Walker educates readers about religious and gender diversity through the eyes of Micah, a gay teen from a working-class family on the shores of Long Island Sound. When the book opens, Micah has a lot on his…

Rubble Fever

Critique by Jendi Reiter Published a decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005, Robbi Pounds' memoir Rubble Fever takes us deep into the physical experience of surviving and rebuilding from a flood. Her journey of exile and return is interwoven with flashbacks to…

White Man’s Disease

Critique by Ellen LaFleche Paul Thornton was a Fortune 500 executive in his late twenties when he went to a routine dental appointment. He casually mentioned to his dentist that he felt a slight “tingling” in his cheek. This seemingly trivial complaint turned out to be a very big medical…

Tzippy the Thief

Critique by Ellen LaFleche In Patricia Rohner's entertaining novel Tzippy the Thief, Tzippy Breyer is a wealthy Jewish widow fast approaching her 80th birthday. She has a condo in Florida, a devoted male companion with whom she enjoys an active sex life, three adult children, a live-in maid, and—wait for…

Daughter of Destiny

Critique by Ellen LaFleche Nicole Evelina's Young Adult novel Daughter of Destiny is a lyrical, imagistic retelling of the Arthurian legend. A young Guinevere comes of age as a priestess in Avalon. Guinevere leaves home at the age of 11 and travels to Avalon on a mystical boat, a symbolic…

The Sea Is Quiet Tonight

Critique by Jendi Reiter Michael Ward's poignant memoir The Sea Is Quiet Tonight takes us back to that all-too-brief period in the early 1980s when gay men were reveling in their newly asserted freedom to live and love openly, before the plague that was already incubating struck down so many…

The Blazing Star

Critique by Jendi Reiter Imani Josey's The Blazing Star is a paranormal Young Adult novel with strong female characters who share complicated bonds of love and rivalry. The book opens at a high school in contemporary Chicago where Portia, the narrator, struggles to individuate from her fraternal twin sister, academic…

Lorelei’s Lyric

Critique by Jendi Reiter Nixies in Dixie! Lorelei's Lyric is a bubbly fantasy-romance about frisky Rhinemaiden mermaids on vacation in Nashville, TN. So many of our top entries tackled serious topics this year, it was a great break to read a book that was playful and fun. In this first…

The Cricket Cries, the Year Changes

Critique by Ellen LaFleche The Cricket Cries, the Year Changes by Cynthia Harris-Allen is a powerful historical novel about slavery, set on a large plantation in Macon, Georgia. The book is organized into sections that focus on the experiences of individual slaves. Each section is divided into small chapters reminiscent…

The Kurdish Bike

Critique by Ellen LaFleche In Alesa Lightbourne's literary novel The Kurdish Bike, narrator Theresa Turner is an American woman in late middle age who is recovering from a divorce that left her penniless. When she takes a job as a teacher at a for-profit school in Kurdish Iraq, she faces…

North Street Book Prize 2017

Honoring the best self-published books in general fiction, young adult fiction, and creative nonfiction

Robin Reardon

Robin Reardon is an inveterate observer of human nature, and she creates stories about all kinds of people, some of whom happen to be gay or transgender—people whose destinies are not determined solely by their sexual orientation or identity. Her writing often introduces readers to concepts or information they might…

Robbi Pounds

Robbi Pounds was born in Mississippi to an Arkansan mother and Texan father. As a first-generation college student, she attended the University of Southern Mississippi on an academic scholarship. Her short stories won the Joan Johnson Award for Fiction in 1998 and a Mississippi Arts' Commission Fellowship in 1999. She…

Paul Thornton

As an infant Paul Thornton moved to Brooklyn, NY with dad, Paul Sr., and his 16-year old mom Esther. As his family grew to include five younger brothers, Paul was raised in Brooklyn and Long Island, NY, where Paul spent his teenage years until leaving the stressful home as soon…

Patricia Rohner

Patricia Striar Rohner was born in New York, New York, where her mother spent New Year's Eve in the Doctors Hospital. She first lived in an apartment in Forest Hills, New York, and then moved to a home in South Orange, New Jersey, where she spent her childhood. She attended…

Nicole Evelina

Nicole Evelina is a historical fiction, romantic comedy, and nonfiction author whose four novels have won more than 20 awards, including two Book of the Year designations. Her most recent release and first nonfiction book, The Once and Future Queen, examines popular works of Arthurian fiction by more than 20…

Michael H. Ward

Michael H. Ward was born in Omaha, NE, in 1944, the sixth of eight children, to Irish-American parents. Financial resources in the family were limited but love was abundant. Michael attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he received a BA and MA in English literature. After teaching college-level…

Imani Josey

Imani Josey is a writer, dancer and fitness professional from Chicago, Illinois. After graduating Howard University, Imani received her Master of Science in Communication from Northwestern. Sometime during all of that studying, she danced professionally for the Chicago Bulls as a (Luvabulls) cheerleader, and won the titles of Miss Chicago…

D.B. Sieders

Award-winning author D.B. Sieders was born and raised in East Tennessee and spent her childhood hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains, wading barefoot in creeks, and chasing salamanders, fish, and frogs. She and her family loved to tell stories while sitting around the campfire. Those days of frog chasing sparked…

Cynthia Harris-Allen

Cynthia Harris-Allen, a native Clevelander, is retired from corporate America where she was employed in managerial and supervisory positions in credit analysis, insurance and mortgage lending for over forty-three years. For more than 37 years, she volunteers as a literacy tutor in both urban and suburban settings. She also transcribed…

Alesa Lightbourne

Alesa Lightbourne has been a professor and teacher in six countries (Jamaica, Virgin Islands, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Singapore and the US), and taught in venues as diverse as universities, preschools and jails. Alesa earned an MA in creative writing from the University of Washington, and a BA in anthropology from…