Home > Search Results

Search Results

Below are the results from your search. Looking for free contests? Please login here.

Page 47 of 112 pages. ‹ First < 45 46 47 48 49 > Last ›

Subscriber News: November 2016

Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers

Judy Juanita was the final judge of our 25th Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Her debut novel, Virgin Soul, chronicles a black female coming of age in the 60s who joins the Black Panther Party (Viking, 2013). Novelist Jean Thompson said of Virgin Soul: “Hard to believe…

Lodestar Quarterly

Archived issues of LGBT literary journal

Love Justice

By Bracha Nechama Bomze

A Small Hotel

By Robert Olen Butler

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

By Charles M. Blow

We Love You, Charlie Freeman

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

Dave Edgerton and Lisa Suhair Majaj Win the 24th Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 24th annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

Subscriber News: October 2016

Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers

Terror Lynching

On the recent radio program, Democracy Now, Amy Goodman featured a story about the Equal Justice Initiative's report, “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror”. The multi-year study documented almost 4,000 racial terror lynchings of African-Americans between 1877 and 1950 in twelve Southern states. The report stirred up…

Breviaries of the Ghost

Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. —Tolstoy I This was supposed to be about the dying Western aspen and the long litany of their probable ailments: drought, SAD, leaf rollers, heart rot. And I was going to stand here, the whole time, with…

How Does an Island Feel

So eager to take my milk, he was. As I held his tiny body, covered in those earthen smells of childbirth, he looked back at me and around and back at me like he knew what his role was, stretched his neck and latched on. The doctor said “what a…

Phantom Language

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely “I don't remember anything that happened to me.” Michael lifts his hands to chest level as if he is about to catch something. He has beautiful hands that make neat stitches on a hem or trace in the air music's rise and fall.…

Journeys to Jerusalem

For almost forty years I have been going to Jerusalem. Although I grew up in Amman, my earliest memories tap into the hills and stones of Jerusalem; splinter in its rocky soil. This is true even though my coherent recollections of Jerusalem begin later, after I turned seven, the biblical…

Changing Hands

The invitation was on top of his keyboard. Arifin grimaced at it like it caused a sharp pain in his chest and dropped it in a drawer. All his worrying needed to go into his morning's work. The Anti-Corruption Commission had launched a countrywide crackdown. Corporations especially were under scrutiny…

Geraniums

By Carmine Dandrea

Time Away

November is on its way, Carol thought as she walked around the yard, adding the last of their Halloween decorations to the large, red chokeberry bushes and whitening dogwoods. They wove together to hide the house from Small Point Road, an asphalt stretch an hour outside of Portland. Her knee-high…

Caterpillars

1 I tried to save the caterpillars. Once the boys found them, I knew what they would do. They burned the worms and ants they'd unearth in the soil beneath rocks. They fired whistlers at squirrels, at the flocks of pigeons in the park. Then they chased the stray cats…

Karl Marx Doesn’t Know Everything

The photo Henry took of me on my birthday pretty much tells you where I was. I was standing in a field, leaning against an old skiff that used to be called Margaret but which had the name Bomber, 1942 overpainted on it. Behind me and Bomber, potato fields stretched…

Brawn

We put on our favorite yellow dress, hoping that it might help us solve The Problem. But Iris did not notice. Iris had slept through our first alarm, and our second alarm, and through our morning run, and through our shower. We had made a breakfast of pancakes and sausage,…

Miz Maddie’s School for Fine Young Ladies

I got a secret in my head that don't nobody know 'bout but me and Miz Ella. She the one who put it there, and she scared as me about it creepin' out. It could mean a whuppin' for me, and Lord knows what for Miz Ella. Only other peoples…

The Death of Betty Boop

Reagan's beloved Contras used southern Honduras for safe haven. We had a monitoring operation embedded in a ten-kilowatt AM community radio station near the town of Puerto Lempira, on the Atlantic coast of Honduras—the Moskitia—twenty miles north of the Rio Coco, the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. Our work consisted…

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2016

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!

W. Royce Adams

W. Royce Adams, a retired college English professor, has published over a dozen college textbooks, several academic journal articles, and juvenile novels. He has enjoyed a long life of traveling. His writings have appeared in Green's Magazine, The Rockford Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Catamaran, and others. He recently won…

William Pei Shih

William Pei Shih is a writer from New York City. His stories have been recognized by the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, the UK Bath Short Story Award, the UK Bridport Prize, The Masters Review Short Story Award, the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the Alice Munro Short Story Competition,…

Nadeem Zaman

Nadeem Zaman was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and grew up there and in Chicago. His work has appeared in Roanoke Review, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Open Road Review, The Milo Review, The East Bay Review, The Coppefield Review, Eastlit, China Grove Journal, 94 Creations, the Dhaka Tribune, and Salon.com.…

Linda Barbosa

Linda Barbosa is a retired business analyst, and the author of How Can I Smile at a Time Like This? She has written several short stories, many of which have received recognition. She is published in The Saturday Evening Post, Haunted Waters Press, The Florida Writer, and numerous anthologies. Linda…

Kathryn Winograd

Kathryn Winograd is the author of Phantom Canyon: Essays of Reclamation, finalist for the Foreward Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, and Air into Breath, a Colorado Book Award Winner in Poetry. Her essays are forthcoming in River Teeth and Fourth Genre.

Juliana Roth

Juliana Roth grew up in Nyack, NY and went on to study English and environmental studies at the University of Michigan where she was a Cowden Memorial Writing Fellow and recipient of the Quinn Creative Writing Prize for her short story collection. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in…

Iris Litt

Iris Litt's newest book is Snowbird from Finishing Line Press. Her two previous books of poetry are What I Wanted to Say from Shivastan Press, and Word Love from Cosmic Trend Publications. Her latest short story publication is “Pissed Off” in the 2016 Saturday Evening Post ebook. She has had…

Dave Edgerton

For most of his working life Dave Edgerton was a contract employee with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the federal agency that administers US foreign assistance. He has written two novels based on real events: Brother Martin, about the US interventions in Afghanistan, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua…

Carey Ford Compton

Carey Ford Compton is an MFA Candidate in fiction at Purdue University. Her works have been published in Allusions (Indiana State University) and Manuscripts (Butler University). In April 2016, one of her stories won runner-up in a prose contest hosted by Manuscripts. Carey reads for Bartleby Snopes and the Sycamore…

Amanda Mancino-Williams

Amanda Mancino-Williams is a freelance writer based always on land and never on sea. Her work has been featured on sites like The Huffington Post, Mommyish, The Synapse and Slackjaw. Her popular Twitter account, @Manda_like_wine, was named by Playboy as one of the top 50 funniest accounts of 2015, and…