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Alicia Ruskin
Alicia began writing early and often, with her first published poem at age 9 and a prizewinning jingle for KFC at 11. She placed in the finals of a national high school creative writing competition, and went on to a career as an actor and then as a talent agent…
Butterflies and Dinosaurs
The first time Chip Kristoffer smelled her perfume was from the penalty box after a scrap with Troy Neilson of the Abbotsford Heat. Chip's right eye had swelled shut and the arena had filled with boos at the announcement of his name. He stepped in, and even before he'd turned…
Game
The ambulance men dropped Easy on the sidewalk near the roundball courts and cracked what was left of his head on the concrete. Didn't surprise Buddha one bit. They looked like cops to him—white shirts, grey pants, shiny black belts and shoes. Only difference was that the ambulance crackers didn't…
Charles Doyle
Charles Doyle graduated with a BA in Popular Culture from Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He currently lives back and forth between Bermuda (where he was born and raised) and Canada, working in web design/SEO. His favorite poetic mechanism is comedic surrealism, and in addition to writing, he enjoys acting…
Muay-Thai
Very early in the morning, too early, through the partition, he hears her trying to jump rope on the cement floor of the gym, the gym that serves as their house and her training center. He wakes to the slapping of flesh against floor, and the swoosh of rope cutting…
John M. Harris Jr.
John M. (Skip) Harris Jr. likes Dante. He does not like air travel. “The Flight Line Commedia” was composed after a long trip to Italy in 2010 (see photo). In real life he is a physician who does online medical education. He has prepared many education programs, but never an…
Fight Night
Frankie Vic owned The Club Milano, a place where the union rank and file had wedding receptions, first communions, wakes, and boxing matches. Architecturally speaking, the Club Milano was a confusion of Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns, giving a very approximate appearance of the Roman Coliseum. On the inside were…
Beth Spencer
Beth Spencer is the founding editor of Bear Star Press, which publishes poetry and occasional short fiction collections by writers living west of the central time zone. Her own poems and short fiction have appeared online and off—Iron Horse Literary Review, Tin House (Flash Friday), Big Pulp, Jerry Jazz Musician,…
Nancy Rapchak
Nancy Rapchak lives in New York City with her cat, Joey Moonpiehead. In high school she was accused by the choir teacher of plagiarizing a poet she'd never heard of. This was the one and only encouragement she received in high school and has played a huge part in her…
Mary McLean
Mary McLean grew up in Oxon Hill Maryland and studied at Penn State, Leeds, Cambridge and Nottingham. She now lives outside Cambridge, where she spends her days doing cancer research and her nights hiding from the wrathful ghost of Charles Spurgeon. In between she cheers herself up with funny writing,…
Rachael Kuintzle
Having just completed a Biochemistry degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Rachael Kuintzle is again free to pursue her first love: creative writing. In her spare time she enjoys waterskiing, cooking, painting, and science-y things.
Nathan Kross
Nathan Kross lives, writes, and teaches high school students in Asheville, North Carolina. He loves fairy tales and rhyming poetry alike, and occasionally writes reviews for new poets. He is best known for his book The Supervillain Sonnets.
Ann Swindell
Ann Swindell received her MFA from Seattle Pacific University and is a Visiting Instructor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. She lives west of Chicago with her husband and daughter, and has written for multiple anthologies, magazines and websites, including I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out:…
Louise Swanson
Louise Swanson is a writer and teacher living in Wisconsin. She is currently at work on a memoir and a collection of short fiction.
JoDean Nicolette
JoDean edits a small northern California magazine called The Horse Journal, and writes fiction and nonfiction. She is currently working on a novel about her walk on the Appalachian Trail, and a collection of short stories called Runs Like the Wind. When she is not writing, she is a physician,…
Scott Latta
Scott Latta is a writer and editor from Birmingham, Alabama. After an editing career that led him to the Alabama Gulf Coast and Nashville, Tennessee, he is now in the MFA program for nonfiction writing at Oregon State University. He has written for magazines including Nashville Lifestyles, Native, Collegiate, and…
Charl Dur’homme
Charles Hardman practiced law for a time and piloted commercial jets. He attended school in England and lives with his partner Marta Gallego in San Francisco, where he teaches English and writes under the pen name Charl Dur'homme. Charles enjoys a lifelong obsession with all things Spanish and Latin American.…
Adrian Cole
Captain (Retired) Adrian Cole is a writer currently enrolled in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. He was born in Brunswick, Maine and returned to his hometown after serving two combat tours in Iraq as an Army Officer with the 101st Airborne Division. He is currently…
Patricia Schultheis
Patricia Schultheis has had several essays and nearly two dozen short stories published in national and international literary journals. Her pictorial local history, Baltimore's Lexington Market, was published by Arcadia Publishing of South Carolina in 2007, and her collection of short stories about a fictional street in Baltimore named St.…
Darren Powers
I'm a happily married father of two girls, living in the quiet town of Brookfield, CT. I have run hot and cold with writing as a simple hobby and/or outlet of release for years. I haven't written books or screenplays. I don't have anything published. I've never really tried before.…
David Margolis
I recently retired after practicing medicine for thirty-five years and now spend my time writing and loafing. My stories have appeared in several medical journals as well as HumorPress.com, Long Story Short and Still Crazy. My first book of short stories, Looking Behind, The Gaseous Life of a Gastroenterologist, will…
Kayla Macduff
Kayla Macduff spent most of her childhood either outside in nature or inside a martial arts studio. She holds a black belt in Wu Ch'uan Fa Kung Fu, and has experience in several other martial arts including Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, Sambo, Kenpo Karate, and Capoeira. She was raised in…
Ross Gale
Ross Gale is a writer and editor living in Hawaii. He earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. His work is featured in Relief Journal, Archipelago, and When God Makes Lemonade (Thomas Nelson, 2013). He's contributed to Burnside Writers, Antler, Magical Teaching, and ImageUpdate.
Stephen Coyne
Stephen Coyne's short stories have appeared in many literary journals including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The New England Review, The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and others. He has won a Playboy Magazine College Fiction prize, a Robert's Writing Award, a Heartland Fiction Prize, and a Prairie Schooner…
Billy Wayne Coakley
Billy Wayne Coakley received his BA in English Literature from the University of South Carolina in 2006 and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh in 2009. Before transferring to the University of South Carolina in 2004, he attended the United States Naval Academy. During his time…
Olaf Kroneman
I graduated from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine with an MD. I interned at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, then attended the University of Virginia to complete a residency in internal medicine. Upon completion of my residency, I participated in a fellowship in nephrology at Massachusetts…
Arthur Powers
Arthur Powers is a past judge of the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Mr. Powers went to Brazil in 1969 as a Peace Corps Volunteer and has lived most of his adult life there. From 1985 to 1992, he and his wife served with the Franciscans in…
Ellaraine Lockie
Ellaraine Lockie is the outgoing judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Ms. Lockie is a widely published and awarded author of poetry, nonfiction books, and essays. Her eleventh poetry collection, Where the Meadowlark Sings, won the 2014 Encircle Publications Chapbook Contest and was published in early 2015. Other…
Ellen LaFleche
Ellen LaFleche is a judge of our North Street Book Prize. She has worked as a journalist and women's health educator in Western Massachusetts. Her manuscript, Workers' Rites, won the Philbrick Poetry Award from the Providence Athenaeum and was published as a chapbook in 2011. Another chapbook, Ovarian, was published…
Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen is president of Winning Writers and publisher of The Best Free Literary Contests. He acquired 10 years of experience in circulation marketing at The Atlantic Monthly, most recently as Circulation Director.
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Jendi Reiter
Jendi Reiter is vice president of Winning Writers, editor of The Best Free Literary Contests, and oversees the Winning Writers literary contests. Jendi is the author of the novel Origin Story (Saddle Road Press, 2024), the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press, 2018), the novel…
Kathryn Kauffman
Kathryn is a fan of words and enjoys observing them in their Wergle Flomp habitat. When she is not wordwatching, she may be out trapping viruses—nature's greatest repository of biological words.
C.L. Holland
C.L. Holland is a British writer who usually writes science fiction and fantasy but sometimes dabbles in poetry. She has a BA in English with Creative Writing, and MA in English, and likes to learn things for fun. She lives with her long-suffering partner and two cats, and can be…
Angela Cichosz
Angela Cichosz is a student of Psychology at Elmhurst College with minors in English and Religious Studies. She likes to write parodies of overplayed radio songs. Angela is a published, award-winning photographer. She seeks to incorporate her creative writing, poetry, and visual art into every academic assignment.
Anwesha Chattopadhyay
Anwesha Chattopadhyay is a book devouring 19 year old Indian. She enjoys travelling, Harry Potter books, and the works of S.T. Coleridge. She dislikes waking up in the morning, which is why she spent the majority of mornings in her high school years chasing the school bus. These bus chasing…
Emery L. Campbell
Emery L. Campbell is an award-winning writer of poetry and short works of fiction and nonfiction. Multicultural Books, a Canadian press, published a book of a selection of his poems and translations from the French of poetry by classical French poets in May 2005. The volume, titled This Gardener's Impossible…
Mary Bast
Mary R. Bast, PhD, is a life coach and happy student of qigong. She used to knit, but never a hat except in her imagination. When Mary's hands are not on computer keys they're holding brush to canvas, inspired by North Central Florida's woodlands, lakes, and prairies. She writes and…
Brittany Alward
Brittany Alward is a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Though she looks forward to graduating with a degree in Literature, she never gives up the hope that one day the entrance to Narnia will reveal itself; thus relieving her of all real life responsibilities. Until then, she…
Melissa Woodworth
Melissa Woodworth is a foodie who chooses to skip the bread. “Someone Who'll Chew” was inspired by her ventures in Paleo eating. She is a writer and artist who holds a BA in Written Communications with a Concentration in Imaginative Writing from Eastern Michigan University. She has written for the…
Raadhika Vishvesh
I'm an 18 year old college student of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India. I wrote my first poem when I was 7 years old. I love reading, writing poetry and short stories, baking, cooking, singing, and listening to music, and dream of being a writer someday. The poem “Babysitting Blues”…
David Stokes
David Stokes gained his PhD in genetics in 2006, and after a short research career went into management. He now manages a multi-institution research centre in London. David spends far too much of his time commuting between the beautiful rural idyll of Kent, where he lives with his wife and…
Leah Mueller
Leah Mueller is a poet and professional astrologer/tarot reader who is in the process of fleeing the Chicago suburbs for the rain-filled climes of western Washington. Her chapbook Queen of Dorksville will be published by Crisis Chronicles Press in Autumn 2012, just in time for the end of the world.
Paul Manchester
Paul Manchester, though not a terribly industrious housekeeper, has not yet been able to create sentient life in his shower…but he has not given up. Paul is an illustrator, wordsmith, and graphic artist based in Los Angeles. He has just released his first book of whimsical verse, Pursuits of Whimsey.…
Wayne Lee
Wayne Lee (wayneleepoet.com) is a Canadian/American who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works as an educator and journalist. His awards include the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and the Santa Fe Reporter War Poetry Contest, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of…
Kathryn Ferrugia
Kathryn is first and foremost a mother or two boys, ages 6 and 8. A woman of varied interests, she enjoys wine, cooking, reading, technology gadgets and travel. She coaches girls' lacrosse and holds a Masters in Public Affairs with a concentration in Criminal Justice. She continues to work on…
Elisabeth Dahl
Elisabeth Dahl is a Baltimore-based writer and editor. Her first book, a novel for children entitled Genie Wishes, will be published by Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, in the spring of 2013. More information about the book, as well as Elisabeth's shorter fiction, essays, and poems, is available at…
Jack Conway
Jack Conway teaches English at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts and the University of Massacchusetts in Dartmouth. He is the author of a dozen nonfiction books including King Of Heists.
Melanie Branton
Melanie Branton is from North Somerset, England, so she is allowed to cast aspersions on British people's linguistic skills. She has previously worked as an English teacher and an assistant theatre director, but is currently a full-time carer. Poetry competitions are a fairly new endeavour for her, although she did…
Ryan Bradley
Ryan Bradley graduated from the University of Hartford with a BA in English with an emphasis on creative writing in May 2012. He still hasn't found a job, but would like if you hired him, although he would prefer if you sent him money to sit on the couch eating…
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