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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…
Representation Matters: A Literary Call to Arms
Tips and resources for writing non-stereotypical characters with diverse identities
Director’s Notes: Holocaust Memorial Day, Tel Aviv
By Ricky Rapoport Friesem
Advice from Judy Juanita, Judge of the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Judy Juanita shares what she likes to see in stories and essays
TCK Publishing’s List of Top Kindle Book Promotion Sites
Highest-traffic websites to list discounted e-books
TCK Publishing’s List of 100+ Author Tools
Self-publishing tools, sources for stock photos and editing, book marketing sites and more
Solace at the P.O.
By Sandy Longley
Reviews of Trans and/or Non-Binary Lit by Trans and/or Non-Binary Reviewers
Blogger Xan West surveys contemporary trans and nonbinary literature
Autumn House Press: The Rising Writer Contest
This contest seeks the first full-length books of poetry by authors 33 years old or younger
Subscriber News: January 2017
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
The hitchhiking robot has been found dead
By Vernita Hall
Certain Doorways
By Jessica Goody
Half Mystic
Music-themed literary journal
Four Things to Decide Before You Write Your Memoir
Advice on narrative structure for nonfiction
Rattle Chapbook Prize
Three poets will each receive $5,000, publication with 500 contributor copies, and distribution to Rattle’s ~8,000 subscribers
Subscriber News: December 2016
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Website Setup: 10 Best Website Builders
Expert advice on the best site design templates for artists and small business owners
Submission Strategies: Advice from The Masters Review
Crafting a submissions strategy to meet your goals and pace of writing
Living Right
By Laila Ibrahim
Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry
SPLC’s guide to skillful interventions to stop prejudice
Family: 5 Variations
By Annie Dawid
Subscriber News: November 2016
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Judy Juanita
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
Top 100 Book Review Blogs for Readers and Authors
Feedspot’s curated list of top-ranked review sites in various genres
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 Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Dave Edgerton of Bloomington, Indiana won first prize in fiction and $1,500 for his story, “The Death of Betty Boop”. Lisa Suhair Majaj of Nicosia, Cyprus won first prize in nonfiction and $1,500 for her essay, “Journeys to Jerusalem”. 1,177 authors from around the world submitted 1,453 entries. Arthur Powers…
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…