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Worm Bin Sestina
Mesmerized, I stand above you, worm, casting a shadow on your work. Or is it your play? Certainly, it's never-ending, the way you root through our garbage, still identifiable, this dark scattering of orange peels, apple cores, celery leaves, crusts of bread. I've got my eye on you, worm, though…
Keepsake
The tilt of the camera caught the groom as he danced with his mother-in-law. It didn't intend to catch the left corner where the young bride sat, face to the wall. It caught me, too—swelling her belly under satin pleats, the result of revenge against an ex-lover, a luckless souvenir.…
Two Women in an Unbalanced Street Scene
First, the painter wanted the church, dome firm like a full breast nursing the clouds— wanted that damp, pink hole in the sky, a hint of the day, 4:20 p.m., being sucked into a blue twilight, early. This center of the canvas diffuses, goes gray— the brush pulls to the…
Night Farming in Bosnia
Drawn by perfumed tomatoes, dry rattling beans, stalks, shoots, leaves, whiffs and gleans, we crawl in the dark over furrows still steaming. Hunger drives even moles from their holes and we are not moles. We were farmers when we planted these fields. Overhead the threshing wings an owl…a mouse…interrupts our…
Hush
for Mike Dockins, after Dario Robleto's conceptual art sculpture “Lunge For Love As If It Were Air” in his 2012 exhibition “The Prelives of the Blues” at the New Orleans Museum of Art—labeled “stretched audiotape of two now-deceased lovers' recordings of each other's heartbeats” They recorded each other's beating hearts—rewind,…
Proper and Enduring
Yes, art cares about the dead and the despairing and the exiled but not too much: like the elephant mother that nuzzles the corpse of her calf then rejoins the herd or the weeds that sprout in radioactive deserts, or the creatures that crawl among the skeletons of the mighty…
Shoshauna Shy
Shoshauna Shy's poetry has recently been published by IthacaLit, Carbon Culture Review, Main Street Rag, Hartskill Review, and Bayou Magazine. Her flash fiction has appeared in A Quiet Courage, Every Writer, Literary Orphans, 100 Word Story, and Prairie Wolf Press Review. Shoshauna works for the Wisconsin Humanities Council which sometimes…
Jim Landwehr
Poet and essayist writes about family and the outdoors
Stuart J. Silverman
Stuart Jay Silverman was born in Brooklyn, NY, 82 years ago. He graduated from Brooklyn College and did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Illinois. Retired from teaching (Auburn University, the University of Illinois, Urbana and Chicago campuses, and the City Colleges of Chicago), he lives in…
Katy McKinney
After growing up in Oregon and Alaska, Katy McKinney has lived for the past 39 years in Trout Lake, Washington, a small rural community at the base of Mt. Adams near the Columbia River gorge. Retired after teaching 5th and 6th grades at the local K-12 school for nearly thirty…
Kathleen McClung
Kathleen McClung is the author of Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and her poems appear in Mezzo Cammin, Unsplendid, Atlanta Review, Ekphrasis, Heron Tree, Poets 11, Zoomorphic, Sin Fronteras, A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the…
Marilyn L. Taylor
Marilyn L. Taylor, former Poet Laureate of the state of Wisconsin (2009 and 2010) and the city of Milwaukee (2004 and 2005), is the author of six poetry collections. Her award-winning poems and essays have appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry, The American Scholar, Able Muse, Measure, Aesthetica,…
Allegra Keys
Allegra Keys resides in her hometown of Seattle, WA. She likes to imagine she is somewhere warm and sunny when she writes. Like most aspiring authors she dreams of someday penning the next great American novel. Until that happens, she is content with having minimal success as a poet. Her…
Eileen P. Kennedy
Eileen P. Kennedy has been writing since she was eight years old. Her collection of poems, Banshees (Flutter Press, 2015), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Honorable Mention from the New England Book Festival and the London Book Festival in 2016. Her poem “Letter to My Son” won…
Maribeth Pittman
Maribeth Edwards Elliott Pittman, 65, is from east central Indiana. After raising four sons and retiring from a business career at a Fortune 500 company, she is once again free to enjoy pursuing her two favorite avocations: poetry and Tarot. Once very active in the Indianapolis poetry community, Maribeth has…
Ray Keifetz
Ray Keifetz has published poetry and short fiction in numerous literary journals and anthologies including the Ashland Creek Press, The Bitter Oleander, Kestrel, The Louisville Review, The Briar Cliff Review, and Skidrow Penthouse. His work has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Laura M. Kaminski
Laura M. Kaminski (Halima Ayuba) grew up in northern Nigeria, went to school in New Orleans, and currently lives in rural Missouri. She is an Editor at Right Hand Pointing, and also serves as Poetry Editor for Praxis Magazine Online, where she curates the digital chapbook / Around This Fire…
Justin Hunt
A native of rural Kansas, Justin Hunt lives in Charlotte, NC. In 2012, he retired from a long business career to write poetry and memoir. Hunt's work has received several awards and appears in numerous literary journals and contest-based collections, including The Atlanta Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Comstock Review,…
David Hill
I was born in Chicago, then raised down state, where the high school I went to was eventually closed due to lack of interest. However, I have been educated to a certain degree, though by my quitting college several times, it was ten years before I received a Bachelor's degree,…
Donald Adamson
Donald Adamson is a widely published Scottish poet and translator, currently living in Tampere, Finland. His translations of the Finnish poet Eeva Kilpi were published by Arc Publications in 2014. His latest collection, Glamourie, which has a Scottish background, appeared in 2015 (Indigo Dreams Publications). His poem “Fause Prophets”, which…
Jewel Beth Davis
Fiction and essay writer, theater artist
Why Write Characters of Color?
Craft essay by fiction writer Lillian Li
Salve by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Salve examines the myriad ways in which we soothe ourselves in an attempt to treat what ails us—for better or for worse
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2015
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Award-Winning Poems 2016
Award-Winning Poems
Edinburgh
By Alexander Chee
A Red Woman Was Crying
By Don Mitchell
Seaside Writers Conference
Conference for poets, fiction writers, and screenwriters in scenic Florida community
Announcing the Winners of Our First North Street Book Prize Competition
We recognize Jenna Leigh Evans, Elizabeth Kirschner, and Gloria Taylor Weinberg for excellence in self-publishing
Waking the Bones by Elizabeth Kirschner
Winner of the 2015 North Street Book Prize in the category of Creative Nonfiction
Archive - North Street Book Prize
North Street Book Prize 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Samson’s Saga
By Helen Bar-Lev
Romantic
By Johnmichael Simon
Elephants in the Room by Charlene Wexler
Award-winning author Charlene Wexler’s latest collection of short fiction and essays examining life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human condition
Subscriber News: February 2016
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Managing Bubbie
Critique by Jendi Reiter Russel Lazega's exciting and humorous account of his grandmother Lea's escape from Nazi-occupied Poland reminded me of my favorite Mel Brooks movie, To Be or Not To Be. The Jewish comedic tradition—prickly, pessimistic, absurd—was forged in the furnace of centuries of persecution and diaspora. In the…
The Long Hot Walk
Critique by Jendi Reiter The Long Hot Walk is Deborah McCarroll's compassionate memoir of growing up in New Mexico with her schizophrenic mother. The writing style, particularly in the childhood years, is lyrical and rich with physical details. Between hospitalizations and her compulsion to wander, Mary McCarroll's mental illness meant…
Waking the Bones
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Waking the Bones by Elizabeth Kirschner was by far my favorite book of all the entries. A poet by trade, Kirschner has created a book so lyrical, so gorgeously styled, so filled with metaphor and meaning, so filled with magic and painful reality, that it transcends…
Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers
Critique by Jendi Reiter In the introduction to Otter St. Onge and the Bootleggers, Alec Hastings says this “rollicking tale of adventure” was inspired by the storybook heroes of his boyhood—Robin Hood, the Hardy Boys, Huck Finn, and the like. The novel pays homage to those sprawling, colorful yarns while…
Vacationland
Critique by Ellen LaFleche One of the questions I asked myself during the screening process was whether or not I would have finished reading a contest entry from cover to cover, if I had checked it out of the library for pleasure rather than work. There were few entries for…
A Homicide in Hooker’s Point
Critique by Ellen LaFleche A Homicide in Hooker's Point by Gloria Taylor Weinberg was a favorite of both contest judges. Set in rural South Florida in the 1950s, this novel centers on eight-year-old protagonist Vicki Leigh Bayle. The opening scene, in which a neighbor hurls Vicki's kitten to its gruesome…
Jem, A Girl of London
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Jem, A Girl of London by Delaney Green was one of my favorite fiction books in the contest, despite some considerable problems. In other words, the strengths of this historical novel outweigh the weaknesses. Set in eighteenth-century London, the book tells the story of Jenna Connelly,…
Glimmer
Critique by Jendi Reiter Tricia Cerrone's sci-fi thriller Glimmer takes place inside Camp Holliwell, a secret military research facility where genetically enhanced teenager Jocelyn Albrecht must fight brainwashing and imprisonment by government scientists who want to use her as a weapon. Glimmer's depiction of mind control and captivity was believable…
Prosperity
Critique by Jendi Reiter Jenna Leigh Evans' novel Prosperity combines speculative fiction, political protest, and dark humor, in the tradition of George Saunders and Kurt Vonnegut. It depicts a near-future America where the indebted masses are railroaded by government bureaucracy into a for-profit labor camp in a former shopping mall.…
North Street Book Prize 2015
Honoring the best self-published books in literary fiction, genre fiction, and creative nonfiction
Russel Lazega
Author Russel Lazega is a lawyer living in North Miami Beach, Florida. He is a columnist for the Aventura News and the author of several nonfiction publications, including Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law and Practice (PIP), the nation's leading treatise on Florida car insurance law that stirred tremendous excitement throughout…
Deborah McCarroll
Deborah McCarroll is the author of the memoir The Long Hot Walk and two pending novels, Monster in Paradise and Murder in Paradise. She's been published in the literary magazines SN Review and Foliate Oak, and she was featured in the art and literary publication Stone Voices in 2015. McCarroll…
Elizabeth Kirschner
Elizabeth Kirschner recently published her memoir, Waking the Bones, with The Piscataqua Press (Portsmouth, NH). She published six previous volumes of poetry including Surrender to Light (Cherry Grove Editions, 2009) and My Life as a Doll (Autumn House Press, 2008). My Life as a Doll was nominated for the Lenore…
Alec Hastings
Alec Hastings grew up in the Vermont foothills just west of the Connecticut River. His grandfather taught him to swing a scythe, sharpen an ax, and drive a war-surplus Willys Jeep. His father taught him to shoot a rifle, play the Scottish bagpipes, and love the written word. His grandmother…
Nat Goodale
Nathaniel Bowditch Goodale comes from a deep seafaring heritage. He is licensed to captain a 100-ton vessel, pilot a single-engine floatplane in instrument conditions, and drive a big rig on the Interstate highway system. He was a 40-year resident of Waldo County, Maine, where this story is set. He now…
