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Christopher Fielden’s Writing Advice and Competitions Listings
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Manoleria
By Daniel Khalastchi
Advice from the Judges of the North Street Book Prize
What Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche like to see in self-published books
Dawn Drums
By Robert Walton
Courtney Campbell and Jeremy Kamps Win Our Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Read the winning entries and judge’s comments from our 22nd annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
Last Rites
By Roberta Beary
Samantha Grace Dias
Samantha Grace Dias is assistant editor of Winning Writers. She is a freelance copyeditor and proofreader with over ten years' experience in perfecting content prior to publication. She has assisted countless authors, graduate students, nonprofits, and publishing companies in reaching their communications goals. Her corporate clients have included American Institutes…
Subscriber News: September 2014
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Chester P. Snidely
I am Chester.
Sibling Rivalry Press
Small press and journals that are supportive of LGBT authors
Fig Tree Books
Small press for literature of the American Jewish experience
Brick Road Poetry Book Contest
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Welcome Table Press
Small press devoted to the art of the essay
He’s Coming for Me
The year is 1975. No cell phone, no instant messaging, no computer. The light blue van chugs along slowly, just a mere three feet from me, here, walking here on this sidewalk. It's hard for the driver to keep the van idling at low speed. The engine sputters and coughs…
How to Fight Like a Girl
STEP ONE: Begin by observing the older girl lifeguards at the pool; the way they twirl their whistles and talk to boys with their hips turned out and roll the waistband of their Soffe shorts over three times. Hide away in the bathroom of your new high school to examine…
What To Do
Haji Zalmay, District Chief for Kus Kunar, showed up at our Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) the morning I happened upon Internet reports that insurgents burned a girls school in his district, leaving it in ruins. He had gone to see the Governor about it. There'd been an attack, Zalmay conceded,…
Born-Again Anthropologist
So, this was how middle-class matches were made for Jersey girls: no coming-out party, no embossed invitations, no gowns or perms or Press-on nails for us hardworking Protestants; when it came time to mate, we got down to business. The summer of my sixteenth year, my Aunt Claire fixed me…
Leap of Faith
When I was in seventh grade, my Hebrew teacher, Mrs. Stern, attempted to explain suffering to our class. As she walked back and forth in front of the room, her long, black skirt swept the floor. Her wig, however, stayed perfectly still. Not one hair out of place. “I want…
Where Nothing Ever Happens
She wasn't even that cute, with her purpled appendages and malformed head. Her skull was all catawampus, drawing into question the symmetry of her facial features. She cried a lot too initially—plaintive sobs that seemed unsootheable. But these imperfections did nothing to hamper her perfection. She was born—born six pounds,…
Gerontophobia
Helen awoke to the bickering of an elderly couple who had laid claim to the several square feet of beach adjacent to hers. She tried to focus on the swoosh of the surf and the call of the gulls, but nature was no match for the discordant back and forth…
Growing Pains
Pig dissection. Muslims should be exempt, technology makes virtual pigs available, but tax cuts don't allow for this. Roxy wants to do it. With Noor as lab partner, Roxy will have to do all the touching. Justin sits across the isle. Mr. Bayard holds the midterms. A graph displays class…
Roommates
This story originally appeared in the 2012 Fish Anthology (Ireland) OB arrived mid-semester carrying a ragged black guitar case with a BLAME GE sticker on the side, an overstuffed backpack, and a mesh onion bag full of hotel soaps. I got back from lunch and there he was, sitting on…
Thaw
It is snowing in Istanbul. The first flakes dampened the hotel steps yesterday as Esma and I returned from touring the palace harem museum and the underground cisterns. All night great feathery wafers floated down from the storehouses in the sky, clumping at the corners of our window, heaping up…
Wet
Humidity hangs like a presence about the graveside. Beth tightens her scarf over her ears in resistance to the probing dampness, and turns her collar against it, but the seeping moisture beads up on her face. Though the clods of earth are still freshly turned, her eyes remain dry; she…
Drawing Water
I do not know if my sister Hadija is dead or has run away or has just disappeared into nothing. All we know around Rusinga Island is that she is no longer with us. She is gone and has been gone since the moment she gave birth to Diana. People…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2014
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
Lisa Rehfuss
Lisa Rehfuss lives, works, breathes and writes in Quincy, MA.
L. Lanser-Rose
Lisa Lanser-Rose is a tall-chick tomboy from New Jersey who earned her MFA at Penn State. She's the author of the memoir For the Love of a Dog (Crown Publishing), about whether horses, birds, and Border collies have souls. Her psycho-sexual ghost story, “Body Sharers” (Rutgers University Press), placed among…
Frank Light Jr.
Now retired, Frank Light served in the Army and the Peace Corps, taught English as a foreign language, and worked as an auditor, river guide, and forest firefighter before joining the State Department. Adaptions from his draft memoir Adjust to Dust: On the Backroads of Southern Afghanistan have been published…
Mia Herman
Mia Herman earned an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in creative nonfiction from Hofstra University in May, 2013. Since then, her poems have appeared in Northwind Magazine and Narrateur: Reflections on Caring. She is currently working on her first novel. Mia also works as a freelance writer and…
Doris Ferleger
Courtney Campbell
Courtney Campbell studies fiction with Columbia University's creative writing program. Before that, she was an oil and gas lawyer in New York City. And before that, she thought “playing outside” meant climbing trees to read books in peace. Courtney lives in Brooklyn with her Siamese cat, Bianca Marcel. She writes…
Greg Wright
With degrees in English and education from St. Olaf College and Stanford University, Greg Wright started his career teaching high school writing classes in Minneapolis and Chicago. Eight years of helping students hone their craft helped Greg appreciate his own dedication to writing, and he left teaching in 2011 to…
Peggy Schimmelman
Peggy Schimmelman is an English teacher, poet, and writer from Livermore, California. Her work has been published in The Las Positas Anthology, Bella Mused, Everyday Poets, Pyrokinection, and 100wordstories.org. She is seeking representation for a novel and is currently working on a short story collection and a poetry chapbook.
Atossa Shafaie
Atossa Shafaie received a B.A. in English literature from George Washington University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. She served as Fiction Editor for So To Speak and the Publications Assistant at AWP. Her stories have been published by Scribes Valley, Dreamquest One, Coffee House Fiction,…
Linda Heuring
Linda H. Heuring is an award-winning writer of character-driven short stories. She has given voice to teenage boys, retired schoolteachers, widows, New York artists, murderesses, men of size, and other diverse characters, taking the reader into their worlds with sensitivity and humor. Her work has appeared in the 2012 Fish…
Deb Elkink
Deb Elkink, a city girl gone country, spent the first two-decade period of her life growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba; the second raising three kids with her cattle-ranching husband on the remote prairies of Saskatchewan; and the third studying at seminary and then writing at her kitchen table in a…
Jeremy Kamps
Jeremy Kamps' plays have received awards and recognition including The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award (Gutting), The Goldberg Prize (winner runner-up), Woodward International Playwriting, Hudson Valley Writers Center, and the NYU Festival of New Works (Water Hyacinth). He has qualified and noted as finalist/semi for the Juilliard School,The Lark, Princess Grace…
Thirst
By Tricia McCallum
Simon Hendrie Wins the 13th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Simon Hendrie of Cape Town, South Africa penned “What Will You Say When Your Child Asks: ‘Why Didn’t You Invest in Eastern Poland?’” to win $1,000 in the 13th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Amorak Huey on Writing Funny
Musings on the role of humor in poetry
Algonkian Writer Conferences
Intensive workshops to revise and market your commercial novel
Subscriber News: August 2014
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Prize
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Necessary Fiction
Online journal publishes original fiction, book reviews, essays on writing
Laura Thomas Communications
Writing advice, workbooks, and conferences for young writers
What Will You Say When Your Child Asks: “Why Didn’t You Invest in Eastern Poland?”
WHAT WILL YOU SAY WHEN YOUR CHILD ASKS: “Why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland?” (*) * From a half-page advertorial in The Economist, January 2013, for the Development of Eastern Poland National Cohesion Strategy He puts down his plastic action figure with careful menace, and leans back on his…
Entry Confirmation
Thanks for submitting to the North Street Book Prize
North Street Book Prize
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