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Spencer Chang
Spencer Chang is pursuing a BA in Linguistics and Computer Science at Duke University. His work has appeared in RABBIT, Eunoia Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2021 YoungArts Finalist in Poetry.
Maya Salameh
Maya Salameh is the author of How To Make An Algorithm In the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022) and rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). She is the recipient of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the California Book Award. She has served as a National Student…
Clif Mason
Clif Mason lives with his wife, a visual artist, on the edge of a forest in Bellevue, Nebraska. He is the author of one full-length collection, Knocking the Stars Senseless (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and three chapbooks: The Book of Night & Waking (Cathexis Northwest Press Chapbook Prize),…
Maia Elsner
Maia Elsner is a writer from London currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her debut collection, Overrun by wild boars (flipped eye publishing, 2021) won the Somerset Maugham Award and was listed as one of the top ten books of 2021 by The Telegraph. Her debut nonfiction book, Dante Elsner…
Mikaela Hagen
Born and raised in Minnesota, Mikaela Hagen now lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and cats, where she teaches middle school social studies. Her personal and professional interests include public schools, language learning, and migrations/the forces that shape them. While not a traditional training ground for poets, the 7th-grade…
Darius Simpson
Darius Simpson is a New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. Much like the means of production, he believes poetry must be used for the positive social, political, and economic development of the majority of society. He aims to inspire those chills that make…
Shereen Leanne
Shereen Leanne is a daughter of Baghdad and Oromieh, raised on the rhymes and concrete chimes of Birmingham. Aged 12, she met fellow Brummy Benjamin Zephaniah whose dub poetry taught her how writing can give shape and music to liberation movements. She is currently an unsettled guest in xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),…
Mary Chi-Whi Kim
Mary Chi-Whi Kim is a mother of two beautiful Afro-Asian children and a writer and educator who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Her essays, stories, and poems have featured in The New York Times Magazine, NPR's Snap Judgment, The Heartlands Today, Calliope, Calyx, Primavera, Many Mountains Moving, Women's Arts Quarterly, and…
Lee Desrosiers
Lee Desrosiers (they/them) is a native New Yorker who moved north to hear the crickets, and has lived in New England for the last 30+ years. Lee is currently working on two books at the same time. Their Honorable Mention poem in the 2023 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest is…
Ja’net Danielo
Ja’net Danielo is the author of This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors’ Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021). A recipient of a Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, a Professional Artist Fellowship…
Kizziah Burton
Kizziah Burton grew up in the slow, soft voices of the American South in a landscape of flower gardens, forests and birdsong. She spent much of her professional life in Los Angeles working in the motion picture industry as a writer/associate producer for an award-winning travel show, and later as…
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
Site celebrates Chicago’s literary heritage with links to bookstores, journals, and historic places
Daniel Victor Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Ninth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its ninth annual North Street Book Prize competition
Gutsy Great Novelist Chapter One Prize
Seeks the best opening chapter of a novel-in-progress written in the English language
From a Secret Location
Digital archive of the poetry zine scene from the 1960s-80s
Black on Madison Avenue by Mark S. Robinson
Advertising’s Mad Men from a Black perspective - winner of the North Street Book Prize
Zen Patriarch Dōgen Takes a Ride in a Self-Driving Car
By James K. Zimmerman
The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize
This contest welcomes both established and emerging poets alike and is open to all poets residing in the United States
Only What’s Imagined by Geof Hewitt
Winner of the 2023 North Street Book Prize in Poetry
Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop: Erma Home Schooling
Enjoy Erma Bombeck keynote talks and workshops from the comfort of home
Atmosphere Press: The Playa Flamingo Writing Residency in Costa Rica
The world’s best getaway for writers to hone their craft in a beautiful environment
Subscriber News: February 2024
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Blacklist Lit
Crowdsourced info about literary journals and workshops with poor business practices
Girl with a Pearl Earring
By Patricia Olson
Laura Duffy Design
Laura Duffy is a passionate book cover designer dedicated to helping independent authors stand out in a crowded market. As a seasoned graphic designer with experience working with some of the world's largest publishers, she specializes in creating visually stunning and compelling book covers that not only grab attention but…
Small Press Economies: A Dialogue
Chicago Review examines how small presses are shut out of bookstores and review outlets
Chill Subs List of Magazines That Publish Young Writers
Journals that publish authors under 18
Who Is Jo March?
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lin Haire-Sargeant foregrounds the queer subtext of a classic novel in Who Is Jo March?, a Civil War espionage romance whose style recalls Louisa May Alcott's other career as an author of pseudonymous melodramas. As long as there have been Alcott fans, there have been readers…
When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too!
Critique by Jendi Reiter I have to admit, I was already won over by the title of Phyllis Schwartz's picture book, When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too! Or, as I like to say to my son, “If Mommy-Man ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.” This gentle story, illustrated with…
The Low Country Shvitz
Critique by Jendi Reiter Rick Lupert has the distinction of being our very first Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry winner, back in 2002. In The Low Country Shvitz, the latest in his series of whimsical travelogue poetry collections, he brings his unflagging energy and irreverence to describing a vacation with his…
The Evil Inclination
Critique by Jendi Reiter Daniel Victor's The Evil Inclination is a sensitive, tragic love story between a modern-day Romeo and Juliet who transgress religious boundaries. It's a brilliant novel that works on many levels—theological, personal, cultural—with high stakes and sharply observed humorous moments that make the characters achingly real. As…
The Angel Room
Critique by Jendi Reiter An abused teen's self-hating inner voice develops a separate existence in The Angel Room, Lee Call's insightful young adult novel about how Christian purity culture stymies healing from trauma. Fifteen-year-old Eleanor is perpetually shadowed by Creep, a Gollum-like figure whom only she can see and hear.…
Peregrination
Critique by Jendi Reiter Ned Gannon's visually stunning graphic novel Peregrination weaves together two stories of spiritually sensitive young men who wonder where they fit in the world. One is a wandering monk in a medieval fantasy realm, and the other is the modern-day schoolboy who draws the monk's adventures…
Only What’s Imagined
Critique by Jendi Reiter Geof Hewitt's meditative poetry collection Only What's Imagined is rooted in the rugged landscape and working-class culture of Vermont. In the book's foreword, National Book Award winning poet and critic Hayden Carruth compares Hewitt to Robert Frost, saying, “His poems are tough, very original, occasionally sentimental,…
Nature’s Geometry: Succulents
Critique by Jendi Reiter Gardening aficionado Russel Ray takes readers on a deep dive into his special interests in mathematics and cacti in his colorful photo book, Nature's Geometry: Succulents. Though I'm the Grim Reaper of houseplants, I take delight in the profusion of sedum and stonecrop varieties at the…
Love Like a Dog
Critique by Jendi Reiter A pit bull with a lot of heart transforms a lonely boy's life in Anne Calcagno's gripping and well-researched novel Love Like a Dog. Pits are a maligned and misunderstood breed because unscrupulous owners use them for illegal dog fights. This story shows their loyal and…
Hidden Depths
Critique by Jendi Reiter An unappreciated middle manager comes up with a risky scheme to cover her tracks in an embezzlement scandal in Hidden Depths, J.H. Mann's crime thriller set on the Cornwall coast. Reminiscent of Ruth Ware's mystery novels, Hidden Depths features an anti-heroine trapped by a combination of…
Found
Critique by Jendi Reiter Irene Cooper's psychological thriller Found features a grieving mother with a preternatural ability to find the bodies of missing children. With beautiful writing and distinctive characters, Found is both a literary study of bereavement and a twisty, atmospheric police procedural that bears comparison to successful mystery…
Flowers by Night
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lucy May Lennox's immersive historical novel Flowers by Night explores cultural mores around class and gender in early 19th-century Japan through the love story of Tomonosuke, a low-ranking samurai, and Ichi, a blind masseur. Lennox explains in her author note: “Male homosexuality in Japan of the…
Elephant and Bird
Critique by Jendi Reiter Sally Hinkley's middle-grade novel Elephant and Bird is a charming tale of friendship across generations and species. The titular Bird is an orphaned 11-year-old girl living in her quirky grandmother's old Victorian boardinghouse, which doubles as a hospice residence for a handful of elderly folks who…
Blackwax Boulevard Is Listening
Critique by Jendi Reiter Blackwax Boulevard is back! Our 2019 Graphic Novel winner, Dmitri Jackson, returns with an even stronger second volume of his comic strip about the staff of an urban record store contending with unrequited love, addiction, fallen idols, and customers who have terribly basic taste in music.…
Black on Madison Avenue
Critique by Jendi Reiter “From the very beginning, Black people were always in advertising,” longtime ad executive Mark S. Robinson opens his lively and informative memoir, Black on Madison Avenue. “The only difference—the whole difference—was that the advertising was not created by us, and it was not created for us.”…
Caras Lindas de Colombia/Beautiful Faces of Colombia
Critique by Jendi Reiter Caras Lindas de Colombia/Beautiful Faces of Colombia is a significant book of photojournalism celebrating Colombia's African-descendant communities, with bilingual text by Ruth Goring and black-and-white photos by Michael Bracey. The book is part of Bracey's project of photographing the African diaspora in the Americas. I learned…
Badge of Honor
Critique by Jendi Reiter A tween boy and his dog rescue Navajo cultural treasures from a gang of thieves in Karen Glinski's lively and well-researched middle-grade novel, Badge of Honor. In the middle school and early teen years, young people are discovering who they are outside the parent-child context. Relationships…
Aunty Jane Knits Up a Storm
Critique by Jendi Reiter A creative metaphor for grief becomes literal in Aunty Jane Knits Up a Storm, a dynamic and effective picture book by Steve Wolfson, with illustrations by Charity Russell. Aunty Jane, a middle-aged Black woman with a vibrant bohemian sense of style, is well-known in her town…
A Daughter’s Kaddish
Critique by Jendi Reiter Sarah Birnbach's uplifting memoir, A Daughter's Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing, chronicles how she kept her vow to say prayers for her father's soul twice daily for eleven months, in accordance with Jewish law. The Kaddish, a Hebrew blessing praising God's peerless attributes,…
Backbone Press Annual Chapbook Competition
Backbone Press will award $250 and publication for a chapbook-length collection of poems
Subscriber News: January 2024
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Geof Hewitt
In 1966, his senior year at Cornell University, Geof Hewitt started The Kumquat Press to self-publish a pamphlet of his poems, Poem & Other Poems. His little press followed up with three issues of Kumquat (a poetry magazine), a series of letterpress poetry broadsides, and Sphinx, a pamphlet of poems…
Sarah Birnbach
Sarah Birnbach embarked on her encore career as a writer in 2015 after successful careers as an HR management consultant and a family therapist in a juvenile court. She has been a sought-after speaker who has conducted more than 500 workshops and presentations. Sarah is a five-time award winner from…
