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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
Inaugural North Street Book Prizes Awarded to Jenna Leigh Evans, Elizabeth Kirschner, and Gloria Taylor Weinberg for Excellence in Self-Publishing
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its first annual North Street Book Prize competition for self-published books. Jenna Leigh Evans of Brooklyn, NY won first prize in Genre Fiction for her novel Prosperity. Gloria Taylor Weinberg of Fort Pierce, FL won first prize in Mainstream/Literary Fiction for…
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…
Gloria Taylor Weinberg
Gloria Taylor Weinberg is a fourth-generation Floridian who retired from a 22-year career as a journalist with the Fort Pierce Tribune in 2001, and now writes for Indian River Magazine, based in Fort Pierce, where she has lived for the past 47 years. Gloria is a self-taught writer who joined…
Delaney Green
Delaney Green writes historical fantasy novels about Jem Connolly, an eighteenth-century girl with Second Sight who grows up in England and America between the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) and the American War of Independence. Green also writes mystery and horror fiction, including “Tsunami Surprise”, published in Bouchercon…
Tricia Cerrone
Tricia Cerrone is an award-winning author and a Walt Disney Imagineer. Her current project, The Black Swan Files, is a young adult series about a teenage girl who has the makings of a new breed of superhero. Glimmer, the first in the series, is a thrilling adventure that introduces the…
Jenna Leigh Evans
Jenna Leigh Evans was a 2014 LAMBDA Literary fellow in Fiction and a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee. Prosperity is her debut novel. Her work has appeared in In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing; the literary journal of the Henry Miller Library; FragLit, The Nervous Breakdown, Autostraddle, The Billfold,…
Flamingo Rampant
Small press publishes racially diverse, LGBTQ-positive picture books
Poetry Archive (Arts Council England)
Great poems online, lesson plans, and performance albums to download
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Welcome to the 34th annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Submit published or unpublished work. $12,000 in prizes.
“That’s Not How I Remember It”: Creative Nonfiction and the Art of Dealing with Doubters
Essayist Megan Galbraith shares tips for writing about sensitive family stories
The American Aesthetic
Quarterly online journal publishes poetry that expresses “honesty and purpose”
The Write Life
Resources for freelancing, book marketing, blogging, and literary craft
M-Moments
By Lind Grant-Oyeye
Internet Writing Workshop
Free online critique groups for various literary genres
George Saunders on Storytelling
Video by acclaimed short story writer
Subscriber News: January 2016
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Montreal Pantoum I
By Isobel Cunningham
Found Polaroids
Photographic writing prompts and archive of flash fiction
Northern Public Radio Book Series
Book reviews and interviews on a public radio affiliate
Big Fiction
Journal of long-form literary fiction
