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Serrina Zou
Serrina Zou is a fourth-year undergraduate at Columbia University, where she will soon graduate with a BA in Creative Writing and Sociology. Her poetry and prose have been recognized internationally by the Bridport Poetry Prize, the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of the U.K., the Cincinnati Review Robert…
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
Dr. Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2006-2008. She has co-edited three anthologies, co-authored a poem-play, and published nine books of poetry, including The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo , winner of the international Art in Literature: The Mary Lynn Kotz Award. She is the recipient…
Jay Aja
Jay Aja (they/he) identifies as nonbinary, transgender queer, and second-generation-immigrant Guyanese. A student of Comics, Jay is fascinated by the confluence point of text and image, how the two in tandem might lead to more nuanced storytelling, and how these mediums together allow Jay to continue exploring the diasporic identities…
R.H. Alexander
Poet R.H. Alexander grew up in Chicagoland and currently lives in southern Wisconsin. He started writing poems at age eight when he learned how to fish and still considers a day of fishing as one no god dare count against us. (It's called “fishing” and not “catching” for a reason.)…
Carla Schick
Carla Schick (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary poet and essayist who received a Certificate in Poetry from Berkeley City College. They served on the editorial board of Milvia Street Literary Arts Journal. Their undergraduate and graduate work was in philosophy and related humanities, but they taught math in California public…
Ceren Ege
Ceren (say Je-ren) Ege is a Turkish-American poet who studied psychology and creative writing at the University of Michigan. After leading poetry workshops for incarcerated youth in her junior year, Ceren's interest honed in on juvenile justice and she is now graduating from Duke Law this May with a JD/MA…
D.T. Christensen
D.T. Christensen is a writer based in Stow, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, NANO Fiction, and Sixfold. He writes about basketball, history and random things in between. When he's not writing, he's coaching youth basketball and exploring New England and its history with his wife and…
Dr. Linda I. Meyers Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its tenth annual North Street Book Prize competition. Dr. Linda I. Meyers of New York, New York won the Grand Prize and $10,000 for her literary memoir-in-essays, The Tell . Dr. Meyers also received a marketing analysis and one-hour phone consultation…
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Dr. Linda I. Meyers Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its tenth annual North Street Book Prize competition
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In the Aftermath: 9/11 Through a Volunteer’s Eyes
Critique by Jendi Reiter What happens to a historical catastrophe when it becomes over-memorialized and under-analyzed—just one more occasion for memes, action movies, annual displays of patriotic sentiment, and tourist attractions? Beth SKMorris's poetry collection In the Aftermath: 9/11 Through a Volunteer's Eye s poses that question about the terrorist…
Exits
Critique by Jendi Reiter Stephen C. Pollock's elegant poetry collection Exits is held together by supple formal inventiveness and a thematic focus on mortality. This universally humbling subject inspires not only melancholy but moments of humor and awe at our small place in the natural world. Exits continues a positive…
The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Carol
Critique by Jendi Reiter Best friends in small-town England track down stolen treasure in Jeremy Sherr's middle-grade novel The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Caro l, an old-fashioned outdoor adventure tale that updates the genre by making its protagonists two athletic and independent 12-year-old girls. The title characters have been…
Tamiu: A Cat’s Tale
Critique by Jendi Reiter Angelino Donnachaidh's wise and winsome novel Tamiu: A Cat's Tale is that magical book that's clear and concise enough for middle-grade readers, while containing deep lessons for adults to ponder. In this sense it reminded me of Walter Wangerin Jr.'s The Book of the Dun Cow…
Here, Where Death Delights
Critique by Jendi Reiter Have you ever noticed the child safety labels on those five-gallon plastic buckets from the hardware store? We have Dr. Mary Jumbelic to thank for those. Early in her training as a forensic pathologist, she wrote the crucial scientific paper that warned pediatricians and parents that…
Circle of Sawdust
Critique by Jendi Reiter When Rob Mermin was a teenager in the 1960s, his high school girlfriend's Italian grandpa shared a memory that had delighted him for 70 years: watching the clown routine at the traveling circus in his childhood village. Even as the old man succumbed to dementia, he…
Bitter Thaw
Critique by Jendi Reiter With emotional sensitivity and a strong sense of place, Jessica McCann's historical novel Bitter Thaw depicts a family coming to terms with secrets that have perpetuated patterns of estrangement. This braided tale juxtaposes a war widow's forbidden interracial romance in 1950s Minnesota and her life in…
The Faller
Critique by Jendi Reiter Michael Demaray's literary novella The Faller is a stark but redemptive coming-of-age story set in a rural community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Logging and mining keep the town's men precariously employed, and violence and alcohol are their go-to methods for grieving. When he loses his parents…
Hillel and the Paper Menschies
Critique by Jendi Reiter A cross between a picture book and a paneled graphic novel for kids, Hillel and the Paper Menschies depicts a young boy's recovery from a brain tumor in a reassuring, accurate, and age-appropriate way. Author Mindy Blumenfeld situates the story in an Orthodox Jewish community whose…
Time Zones
Critique by Jendi Reiter Sven Siekmann's suspenseful graphic novel Time Zones dramatizes his family's attempted escape from East Germany in 1978, his parents' capture and imprisonment, and their reunion several years later in West Germany. Wolfgang and Uschi, parents to young Andre and Sven-Holger, are frustrated by the Communist regime's…
Blood on a Blue Moon
Critique by Jendi Reiter A small-time insurance investigator winds up doing a good job despite herself in Jessica H. Stone's Blood on a Blue Moon , a cozy, comical murder mystery set in a Seattle-area houseboat community. Our lovable dirtbag narrator, Sheaffer Blue, is like Eleanor from The Good Place…
My Boyfriend Satan
Critique by Jendi Reiter Leah Campbell's paranormal romance My Boyfriend Satan offers two of the things I most enjoy in a novel: anti-authoritarian theology and long, juicy sex scenes. Put those together and you get something more than fan service for us monster-lovers. This bold story is a timely salvo…
The Corpse Bloom
Critique by Jendi Reiter Bryan Wiggins' medical thriller The Corpse Bloom , written with expert consultation from neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Thibodeau, plunges Boston transplant surgeon Dr. Brad Baker into a high-stakes ethical dilemma involving complex questions of colonialism, unequal access to healthcare, and the impunity of the rich. But honestly,…
A Little Patience
Critique by Jendi Reiter Michelle Mae's sweet and funny picture book A Little Patience employs young children's love of imaginary friends to teach emotional regulation skills for the whole family. The story is accompanied by Marta Taylor's illustrations in friendly shades of pink, green, and yellow. Chase is a little…
Paralights
Critique by Jendi Reiter Funny and full of personality, the picture book Paralights was written and illustrated by Aiden Woosol Lee when he was only a sixth-grader. In 2019, this young creator already knew more about dynamic illustration and typo-free, age-appropriate storytelling than many of our adult entrants! Our first-round…
Finding Messi: The Miracle Cat from Kyiv
Critique by Jendi Reiter Picture books about serious issues are hard to write in a way that's both age-appropriate and properly contextualized. To avoid being too scary or complicated, sometimes too much information is omitted for the story to make sense. It's also important to find a child-level way in…
Something About the Women
Critique by Jendi Reiter The portrait compendium Something About the Women: Five Decades of Seeing by Irene Young is a photographic Who's Who of the lesbian and feminist music scene from the 1970s to today. These dynamic, joyful concert shots and posed photos include celebrities with mainstream name recognition, such…
The Fig District
Critique by Jendi Reiter Architect Jeff Shelton's art book The Fig District: Some Buildings in Downtown Santa Barbara is a joyful compendium of colorful patterns, photographs, and blueprints from eight whimsical multi-use buildings he designed in a historic California neighborhood. In a time when even expensive homes often look cheap…
The Tell
Critique by Jendi Reiter Linda I. Meyers' The Tell , a feminist memoir and family history, is a stellar example of how to turn eight decades of life into a taut narrative without filler or digressions. Culturally reminiscent of graphic novelist Will Eisner's sagas of New York City Jewish immigrant…
Beth SKMorris
Between November 2001 and March 2002, Beth SKMorris was a volunteer at the WTC Ground Zero Relief Project, Spring Street Warehouse in lower Manhattan, north and east of the Twin Towers. It was an art studio converted to a post-9/11 supply center warehouse and staffed by volunteers. They solicited donations…
Stephen C. Pollock
Stephen C. Pollock is a poet, essayist, physician, academician, business executive, and inventor. The twenty poems in Exits were written and edited over a period of twenty years. Designing and formatting the book required an additional two years. Steve began scribbling poems on shirt cardboard at age nine. All of…
Jeremy Sherr
Jeremy Sherr is an award-winning author and homoeopath who is passionate about storytelling and healing. His debut children's novel, The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Carol , has won 12 international writing awards and continues to captivate young readers with its imaginative journey and heartfelt lessons. Beyond his literary achievements,…
Angelino Donnachaidh
Angelino Donnachaidh is a Mexican-American father, author, and Japanese-English translator who lives in Osaka, Japan. His fiction draws on a wide variety of genre tropes to examine how individuals navigate the borders, pathways, and interstitial wilds created by mythic, religious, and secular grand narratives to draw meaning into their own…
Mary Jumbelic
Mary Jumbelic, M.D., is an author from Central New York, and former chief medical examiner of Onondaga County. As a board-certified forensic pathologist, she has performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She received awards for her work from the National Transportation Safety Board and the New York State…
Rob Mermin
Rob Mermin studied mime in Paris with masters Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux. Rob performed with traveling circuses throughout Europe, Scandinavia, and the former Soviet Union. In 1987, Rob founded the award-winning international touring company Circus Smirkus. Having cultural exchanges with 32 countries, Smirkus was named the “United Nations of…
Jessica McCann
Jessica McCann is a historical novelist and has worked for over 30 years as a professional writer for magazines, universities, corporations, and other organizations. One of her earliest assignments as a freelancer was covering a new surgical radiation technique for destroying brain tumors, during which she was permitted to don…
