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Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!

The Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry

Win $2,000 and publication of your poetry manuscript by Lynx House Press

Award-Winning Poems 2017

Award-winning poems curated by Jendi Reiter

Getting a Top Reviewer to Read Your Book

Advice on crafting a professional pitch

Linda Baer, Winfred Cook, and L.S. Johnson Win the 2nd Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books

Ten authors of outstanding self-published books received $6,500 in prizes from Winning Writers

Subscriber News: February 2017

Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers

Critique by Jendi Reiter Return of the Convict by William Alan Thomas is a science fiction adventure novel that takes its central conflict from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. An ambitious, rule-following young man makes the unwelcome discovery that his benefactor is a transported convict who has illegally returned to interfere…

Winged

Critique by Jendi Reiter Like its protagonist, April Kelly's novel Winged is a hybrid creature: a contemporary family drama, a magical-realist fable, and a meditation on how we support our children (or not) when their dreams take them far away from us. Winged takes place in everyday modern America, with…

North Street Book Prize 2016

Honoring the best self-published books in literary fiction, genre fiction, and creative nonfiction

Vacui Magia

Critique by Ellen LaFleche The writing in L.S. Johnson's winning collection of short horror stories, Vacui Magia, is beautifully lyrical and metaphorical. The stories blur in psychologically imaginative ways the boundary between horror and fantasy. The protagonists are women in a variety of challenging situations; the magical twists in each…

Some Measure of Happiness

Critique by Jendi Reiter Lee Wicks' Some Measure of Happiness is an intimate novel about a year in the life of a group of friends in Cooper Hill, Vermont, as they cope with bereavement, midlife crises, troubled children, and the challenges of being newly single in a clique of couples.…

Bela’s Letters

Critique by Ellen LaFleche In Béla's Letters, Jeff Ingber, the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, has written an epic novel that is girded by a real-life treasure trove of letters written by his ancestors before and during the Holocaust. I love books that teach me not only facts but new…

Uncle Otto

Critique by Jendi Reiter Winfred Cook's novel Uncle Otto is an emotionally gripping family saga and a worthy addition to the literature of African-American history. In the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots and Queen, Cook uses research about his forebears as raw material for dramatizing a representative story of racial…

The Year the Trees Didn’t Die

Critique by Ellen LaFleche Mary J. Koral's The Year the Trees Didn't Die is a lovely book. The strength of this memoir about foreign adoption derives from its clear narration and character exploration rather than verbal pyrotechnics. The author and her husband's struggles with infertility led them to adopt three…

Mind Your Head

Critique by Jendi Reiter The subtitle of Jordan Cosmo's raw and politically timely memoir Mind Your Head says it all: “The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Suicidal Queer Christian Missionary Kid”. Their coming-of-age story is both funny and painful, as they document the absurdities of their Christian subculture and…

Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree

Critique by Ellen LaFleche Many teachers of English caution against using too many adjectives when writing. But that rule has been temporarily suspended for the purpose of this critique; it's impossible to discuss Mary Ellen Sanger's memoir Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree without using as many superlative adjectives as possible.…

Red Blood, Yellow Skin

Critique by Ellen LaFleche Red Blood, Yellow Skin by Linda L.T. Baer is one of the most compelling books in the two-year history of the North Street Book Prize. This winning memoir is an important contribution to the history of the Vietnam War and deserves a place on course syllabi.…

William Alan Thomas

William Alan Thomas took a BA in English at the University of Chicago in the 1960's, and his first novel, Daddy's Darling Daughter, was published in 1974. Life was to sweep him far from the world of books, as he fell in love with the seafood business, acquired an old…

April Kelly

Before turning to less soul-sucking work, April Kelly was a TV writer and producer, starting out as the lone female on the original staff of “Mork & Mindy”, and finishing up as one of the creators of the long-running “Boy Meets World” and the recently axed “Girl Meets World”. Her…

L.S. Johnson

L.S. Johnson was born in New York and now lives in Northern California, where she feeds her cats by indexing books. In her previous life she taught college-level humanities and for eleven years was a production manager for a book design company, until she finally got tired of making other…

Lee Wicks

Lee Wicks has lived, worked, and written books, essays, and news stories in Western Massachusetts since 1982. She does not like to travel, preferring to stay at home in Montague, Massachusetts with her husband and unruly dogs, her daughter, daughter-in-law and her two grandchildren. Her fiction and nonfiction reflect a…

Jeff Ingber

Jeff Ingber is a retired financial services executive who now writes full time. Bela's Letters, his second book, has garnered several awards and numerous favorable reviews. His first, Resurrecting the Street, chronicled the devastating effect of 9/11 on the financial markets. Later this year, Jeff expects to publish his third…

Winfred Cook

My name is Winfred Cook, and I live in Oakland, California. I have no previous writing experience, just a desire to write. I started writing for my own pleasure eight years ago. With the help of a young English major, Gabriel, who tutored ESL students, and my yearning to write,…

Mary J. Koral

Mary J. Koral (1943-2017) grew up in a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania. She earned an MA in Creative Writing and Women's Studies at Eastern Michigan University where she subsequently taught Asian American Literature and Creative Writing, among other courses. She published her memoir, The Year The Trees Didn't Die,…

Jordan Cosmo

Jordan Cosmo is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in English at the Pierre Laclede Honors College of the University of Missouri–Saint Louis. Works-in-progress include flash fiction, personal essays, and a full-length novel. Mind Your Head is Jordan's first published work. Their literary focus includes third-culture perspective, free-range philosophy, and the…

Mary Ellen Sanger

Mary Ellen Sanger lived in Mexico for 17 years, and has published short stories, creative nonfiction and poetry in Spanish and English in Mexico, the US, and online. She is a former finalist for the Room of Her Own Foundation Gift of Freedom Award and a recipient of their Orlando…

Linda L.T. Baer

Linda Loan Thi Baer was born Nguyen Thi Loan in 1947, in the small village where she was raised, Tao Xa, Thai Binh Province, North Vietnam. Her father was killed during a Viet Minh attack on her village in 1951. Her mother was married again, to a wealthy practitioner of…