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Getting Schooled
We are small and untamed, a motley gang of kids in a pasture overgrown with bedstraw. The baseball field is our own creation, an ad hoc diamond wedged between the Lewis's barn and the paddock of sheep corralled with Electronet fence. First and second bases are marked by hay bales,…
It’s Working Out
I knelt on one knee, Batman on my right and Santa on my left, staring down at the trampled, muddy grass. I shifted back as a burly man with hair poking out from his orange tutu dropped to his knee in front of me. He smelled of sweat and stale…
Janette Berry
I am honored to be back on the winning team. This contest is fun and gives me a chance to vent over the woes of seasoning. This past year I have written a number of short stories (a few have been shortlisted in competitions) and an assortment of poetry, and…
In Which I Feign Injury to Get Out of Wrestling Tristan Reed
Middle school is the only time in your life when everyone you see falls cleanly into one of two groups: those who have abs, and those who will have to work to get through life. It did not take me long to find my group. When your last school was…
Pushing Tin
Tejo is under assault again. Some years ago the game was bought outright by South American beer companies, an attack that disturbed many at the time but which, in retrospect, has proved altogether favorable. The current assault is far more sinister. An anonymous online survey recently dubbed Tejo “the world's…
Boston You’re My Home
I was sitting on a couch in Saddam Hussein's Birthday Palace in the City of Tikrit, watching the end of the 2007 World Series on pirated satellite signals, purchased and subsequently wired by a really sketchy thin dude who kept showing me the porn channels. He was Iraqi and spoke…
Nancy Lee
Nancy Lee grew up in Berea, Ohio. Of mixed Korean, Japanese, and German heritage, she has lived in Tokyo and Seoul (where she taught English composition at Ewha Women's University), and now makes her home in Seattle, Washington. She received a B.A. in English and the James A. Veech Prize…
Skating to Seventy
On frigid mornings, before first light, sometimes I stand in a crumbling parking lot and watch slender forms materialize out of the dark. Sleek and insouciant as cats, they drag suitcases toward a low-slung building shimmed into the edge of a Baltimore golf course. The building is an ice rink,…
Stuart Anderson
I grew up on a 40-acre family farm in western Washington, then moved to the big city to study mathematics and physics, which I now teach at the University of Washington Instructional Center. Although I have always written poetry, I have seldom submitted any for publication. In 2003, I was…
The Missing Fields
It is 1987. It is summer. I am 13 and in my father's Saab. It is a yuppie car and he is not a yuppie. We are traveling in the dark of the pre-dawn light. We are heading towards his work, towards his store. I am the helper for the…
If Only Your Golf Clubs Could Speak
We are gathered here today for a memorial to our former master, Dave. Two months ago, Dave suddenly passed away while playing golf at the Hollow Promises Country Club. As we sit in the basement awaiting the garage sale this spring, I would like to remember Dave and the remarkable…
Ferocity
This is how I die. The thought wouldn't stop echoing through my head. With the force of will gained through fifteen years of martial arts practice, I tried to clear my mind. It didn't work. Flow like water, my sensei's calm voice whispered. Maybe I thought of this because fear…
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 past 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…
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.
To Be Announced
The judges for this contest will be announced soon!
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…
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