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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.
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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…
Alice Owens Johnson
Alice Owens Johnson was born in New Orleans in the 1940s. She has published short stories and nonfiction in such publications as the The Lyricist, Pembroke Magazine, The Guilford Review, and the O. Henry Festival of Stories. Her stories have appeared in two other anthologies: The National Story Project entitled…
Gerald Cooperman
Gerald is a former educator and engineer, who has cloaked himself in the the pseudonym “Gramps” since 2000. Located about 80 miles west of the Nation's Capitol, Gerald with his wife Kathryn own and operate the Peaceful Valley Farm, producing chemical-free beef and lamb. The couple's retirement plan is to…
Judith Sanders
Judith Sanders, PhD, teaches English at the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, PA. Her poems have appeared here and there; one recently won the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest. Her shopping sprees remain largely imaginary.
Claudia Ware
I believe I was born to write. My first experience, at age eleven, was writing a play for my Sunday School class, which was performed for the church. In high school, I won an essay contest sponsored by a civic association. As a young mother, I wrote a weekly sports…
Elaine Slater
Elaine Slater has written many short murder mysteries over the years. Although most of her stories are based on actual events, this is not to suggest that Elaine Slater is a serial killer. Adept at turning murderous thoughts into laughter and life experience into a form of wisdom, her stories…
Stephen J. Kudless
Stephen J. Kudless is a poet and playwright whose whose work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Two of his plays, “Beds” and “How Fish Breathe”, were staged in off-off Broadway venues in NYC. Mr. Kudless writes and lives in New York City.
Alexandria Gilbert
Alexandria Gilbert writes and studies in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. As a poet, she focuses on such topics as Zeitgeist, the Generation Y experience, and the deeper implications of Taylor Swift songs. Her work has been featured at The Southern Letterpress in Northport.
JoAnn DeLuna
JoAnn DeLuna is a bilingual journalist and poet originally from Texas, a self-described Texican. Her journalistic work has been published throughout the US, UK, Netherlands and India, while her poetry has been published in anthologies in Texas and New York. She received her journalism master's from City University London.
Carole Davis
A native Texan, Carole is an avid fantasy reader and a dog lover, and loves to travel. Her writing has appeared in The Whimsic Alley Book of Spells, The Innocence of Children, Pawsitively Awesome Pet Poems, Wisdom of Our Mothers: Stories and poems by daughters and sons (Volume 1), Best…
Tracy Davidson
Tracy Davidson lives in Warwickshire, England, and enjoys writing poetry and flash fiction. Her work has appeared in various publications and anthologies including: Atlas Poetica, Mslexia, Modern Haiku, Simply Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Roundyhouse, The Right-Eyed Deer and Notes from the Gean. Apart from writing, Tracy enjoys reading crime fiction…
Pat Coulter
Pat Coulter has only recently begun to put his thoughts to paper in the form of creative writing—although unpublished in his chosen fields of narrative fiction and poetry, being a finalist in the Wergle Flomp poetry contest is a strong indicator that his writing isn't complete rubbish. He was born…
Marcy Campbell
Marcy Campbell's work is published most recently in McSweeney's, The Millions and The Writer. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Marcy is currently shopping her debut novel, whose opening chapter was selected as a finalist in the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars Contest, judged by Mary Gaitskill. She…
Luke Archer
I am a self-employed builder from Derbyshire with a degree in Applied Psychology and a passion for comic poetry. I have recently branched out into performing my poetry on the stand-up comedy circuit and have acquired a following. Get the latest on Twitter.
Andrew Weaver
Andrew Weaver is an aspiring writer currently attending Middlebury College in Vermont. His interests include reading, writing, and the banjo. He divides his time between his typewriter and the kitchen.
William Upjohn
William Upjohn recently retired from speech-language pathology following an extended sabbatical, having been fervently detained by poetry during the last decade or so. In 2010 he completed the Loft Master Track—Poetry mentorship program (now called Foreword: A Writing Mentorship) under Jude Nutter at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…
Sabine Sur
Sabine Sur is a writer, a knitter and a translator, which means she writes from one language into another, knits narratives and translates patterns into things. She also just got married and wore a blue dress for the occasion. No ghosts were sighted at the wedding nor was there any…
Peter Schmitt
Peter Schmitt is the author of six books of poems, including four full-length collections: Goodbye, Apostrophe (Regal House), Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books), Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech). Two chapbooks, To Disappear and Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, are with Pudding House. He…
Bruce McCandless
Bruce McCandless lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two daughters, neither of whom (ahem!) resemble IN ANY WAY the eponymous Hillary Snow. Bruce has published poems in Pleiades, Natural Bridge, The Seattle Review, and The New Delta Review, and is also the author of the science fiction novel…
Cassandra Kemper
Cassandra writes from Keizer, Oregon. She is currently enrolled at Chemeketa Community College to complete her prerequisite courses before moving on to the University of Oregon. She is majoring in Cinema Studies. She has two short stories published: “Painter Girl” and “The Anklet”. The former story is in the 2012…
Logan Ellis
Logan is currently working on a creative writing degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, during which he hopes to finally decide if he should write poetry or fiction or a Frankenstein concoction of both, or if he should just stop complaining and drink his coffee. In his…
Keith Casto
Keith Casto is a freelance writer who lives in Akron (Ogden Nash rhymed it with “saccharine”), Ohio, with his wife Barbara (whom most poets would have trouble rhyming anything with). He considers just about anything fair game for a send-up, except possibly the neighbors, with whom he has to continue…
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