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California
After Jericho Brown In the dream, I buried my father Then ran toward the mountain set on fire. Running back to the mountain set on fire Meant returning home to where I was raised. I returned to the small blue home, raised Dust searching for boots that belonged to me.…
Orion
Illustration by James Lee Chiahan My boy came into the room and said, Mom, you are the hound, Dad is the hunter, and I am the— but he couldn't remember, so stood there, silent. I wanted to know, but forgot how to speak, form my lips into language, started to…
Children from the Coast
We went hunting for shells a decade ago, when we were still so small we had baby teeth wiggling within our pink gums. Coarse was the sand beneath our soles, coarse was the way in which we touched each other. When we crawled out of the ocean which was our…
Cento for Women Who Are Not Believed
When we are silent we are still afraid, grown women, well traveled in our time. These hips have never been enslaved. Name them, name them all, light of our own time, high over these robed men who curse me and the ground spinning beneath us. Now you are a voice…
After the Final Skin Graft
I awakened on my belly—my back a raw field from nape to heels. New lawn the kids couldn't play on, thickening Jello which mustn't be moved. Even the sheets kept away, draped on a wire Quonset, a heat lamp curing me like wheat. The burn unit was suddenly explicit: the…
Blues for the Fathers
The fathers keep on disappearing into the sun. Every morning a father flies east. In the afternoon one'll drive west. And midday, look at the man bend at his knees to kiss a girl's cheek then rise to ride invisible escalators up the floors of the sky. In the night…
Places I Could Not Reach
After showering, You used to rub lotion On my back. Places I could not reach. I did the same for you. Now you are in a place I cannot reach. My back never stops Itching.
Last Kiss
First, in your seventies and alone, you read that those who count such things say an average person kisses for a total of two weeks in a lifetime. And you realize your two weeks was up some time ago. Suddenly there is kissing everywhere you look. And you learn that…
Elegy for Childhood Written in a Language I Did Not Yet Speak, Addressed to the God I Once Knew
Illustration by Melissa Chalhoub I tremble with solitude much greater than my own —Robert Șerban wehn the frsit saporrw flel from the haeenvs / did it fly psat you / or did it flal trhugoh you? / did you frcoe it to fele? / to mkae a new hmoe out…
Dion O’Reilly
Dion O'Reilly, a graduate of Pacific University's low-residency MFA program, splits her time between a family compound in the Santa Cruz Mountains and a residence in Bellingham, Washington. When she was nineteen, she survived a house fire, losing most of her backside skin as well as pieces of hand and…
Richard Haney-Jardine
Born and raised in Venezuela, Richard Haney-Jardine León (aka Jardine) grew up speaking and writing in Spanish, English, and French. At 15 he came to the US for boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he had the extraordinary opportunity of working individually (albeit briefly) with Gwendolyn Brooks, Jorge Luis…
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is an Arab-American journalist and poet/writer who currently resides in New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Narrative, Rattle, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She was a 2020 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg finalist, winner of the 2020 Palette Emerging Poet Contest, and the winner…
Alfredo Aguilar
Alfredo Aguilar is the author of On This Side of the Desert (Kent State University Press, 2020) selected by Natalie Diaz for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. He is a recipient of 92Y's Discovery Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,…
Liz Schroeder
Liz Schroeder is a Connecticut-based poet studying Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Connecticut. Their goal is to develop strategies to fight climate change with sustainable food systems by returning to local production. They graduated from the Educational Center for the Arts in 2021 and have always been…
James Evans
J. T. Evans is a native of St. Louis, MO. He has lived in Nashville, New York, Houston, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, and currently resides in Richmond, VA. He holds degrees in French literature from Vanderbilt University and Indiana University. After a 30-year career as a speechwriter, Evans now writes poetry, essays,…
Jane Ebihara
Jane Ebihara took 26 years to get out of middle school where she taught literature until retirement in 2006. She has since authored three poetry chapbooks: A Little Piece of Mourning, A Reminder of Hunger and Wings, and This Edge of Rain. Ebihara's work has also been published in numerous…
jason b. crawford
jason b. crawford (They/Them) was born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut full-length poetry collection, Year of the Unicorn Kidz, is out from Sundress Publications. They are currently a poetry MFA candidate at The New School.
Tamara Panici
Tamara Panici was born in Waco, Texas to Romanian refugee parents. She has worked as a personal trainer and chef, but is currently a stay-at-home mother who reads and writes at odd hours. Her poetry is interested in historical and familial memory, and questions the ways in which these types…
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Diane Chiddister Wins the $8,000 Grand Prize in Our Eighth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its eighth annual North Street Book Prize competition. Diane Chiddister of Yellow Springs, Ohio won the Grand Prize and $8,000 for her literary novel One More Day. These category winners received $1,000 each: Tonia Shimin of Goleta, California won First Prize…
Diane Chiddister Wins the $8,000 Grand Prize in Our Eighth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
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Something Old, Something New, in Uganda!
Critique by Jendi Reiter Cathy Kreutter's well-crafted picture book Something Old, Something New is a culture-spanning fable about a resourceful schoolboy named Joseph who cherishes his connection to his humble origins. Kreutter adapts a Jewish folktale for a Ugandan village setting with the help of Ugandan illustrator Andrew Obol, who…
The Wild Court
Critique by Jendi Reiter E.G. Radcliff's novel The Wild Court is the concluding volume of a high fantasy trilogy about Áed, the young half-faerie king of a human realm known as The Gut. He and his advisor Eamon are both secretly in love with each other, but too shy to…
The Jigsaw Project
Critique by Jendi Reiter Cameron Beach's taut, believable young adult novel The Jigsaw Project depicts the psychological strain on four teenage friends when they suspect that their prank has killed a fellow student. From Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart” to Donna Tartt's The Secret History, the trope of being undone by…
The Art of Symeon Shimin
Critique by Jendi Reiter Public recognition for an artist, whatever his talents, may hinge on the alignment of his style with the zeitgeist, as well as whether he has financial security to keep developing his craft while waiting for that breakout success. For 20th-century social realist painter and commercial illustrator…
Sleepwalkers, Volume 1: #Adulting Sucks
Critique by Jendi Reiter Danny Gorny's Sleepwalkers, Volume 1: #Adulting Sucks is an unusual graphic novel that probes the limitations of the superhero as a solution to crime. By day, protagonist Faith is a Black college graduate in contemporary Toronto, burdened by the disconnect between her ideals and the jobs…
Return to Heartwood
Critique by Jendi Reiter The elegant, subtle “tree portraits” in William Guion's Return to Heartwood: A Search for the Heart of Live Oak Country represent his 40 years of photographing and researching Louisiana's oldest specimens of this iconic Southern tree. Quercus virginiana is colloquially known as “live oak” because it…
Paisley Invasion
Critique by Jendi Reiter Paisley Invasion, Alicia Czechowski's quirky, wordless graphic novel, is subtitled “The original sci-fi fantasy coloring book saga.” This interactive work reminded me of two staples of my 1970s childhood, Edward Gorey's surreal illustrated booklets and Susan Striker's Anti-Coloring Book series (anyone else remember those?). Paisley Invasion…
One More Day
Critique by Jendi Reiter Diane Chiddister's exquisite literary novel One More Day delves into the inner lives of four denizens of an old-age home. Full of tenderness that stays on the right side of sentimentality, One More Day braids its characters' paths into a journey that leaves all their lives…
My Pinsans and Me: Amara’s Talent Show
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lively picture book My Pinsans and Me: Amara's Talent Show is a family affair, just like its storyline. Written by Monica Canlas Tuy and Eric Tuy with illustrations by Joseph Canlas, it's a tale about kids solving a conflict of wills in a creative and enjoyable…
Losing Time: AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss
Critique by Jendi Reiter When I picked up Lucien L. Agosta's memoir Losing Time: AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss, the reader in me prepared to savor a gay love story, but the judge in me wondered how this topic could be made fresh. Classics like Paul Monette's Borrowed Time,…
Helen in Trouble
Critique by Jendi Reiter Full of humor, poignancy, and period detail, Wendy Sibbison's historical novel Helen in Trouble depicts a sheltered teen girl discovering her inner resources after an unplanned pregnancy. If only we didn't need a book about obtaining a back-room abortion in 1963 to be our roadmap in…
Happy Harper: Grandpa Comes Home
Critique by Jendi Reiter All of the judges this year loved Kayla Marie Pierre's heartwarming picture book Happy Harper: Grandpa Comes Home, the first installment in a planned series about a biracial Haitian-American girl growing up in Brooklyn. Harper loves new experiences and has a strong attachment to all the…
From Mormon to Mermaid
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lorelei Kay's relatable memoir, From Mormon to Mermaid: One Woman's Voyage from Oppression to Freedom, depicts a feminist awakening that set this devout wife and mother on a stormy but liberating journey away from the religion she once loved. Lest her story be dismissed as one…
Endemic
Critique by Jendi Reiter When you're talking dystopia, there are two kinds of people in the world: preppers or head-in-the-sand types (like me) who say (only half in jest) that we'd rather die than try to survive without flush toilets. So how do you get me to read—and love—a post-apocalyptic…
Echoes of Earth
Critique by Jendi Reiter L. Sue Baugh and Lynn Martinelli traveled to some of the oldest and most remote rock formations in the world to photograph the remarkable landscapes in Echoes of Earth: Finding Ourselves in the Origins of the Planet. Designed and self-published by Baugh, this art book doubles…
