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Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2022
Congratulations to the winners of the 20th annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Award-Winning Poetry and Prose 2023
The best contemporary writing from around the web
Off the Yoga Mat
By Cheryl J. Fish
The Wicken Bird
By Geoffrey Heptonstall
Sundress Reads
Submit your small press book for review on the website of this reputable literary publisher
Diane Chiddister Wins the $8,000 Grand Prize in Our Eighth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Results of our eighth annual competition for self-published books
Reedsy’s 50 Best Writing Websites of 2023
Publishing-services company Reedsy names its favorite sites for the inspiration and business of writing
The Frugal Editor, 3rd Edition, by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Do-it-yourself editing secrets from your query letters to final manuscript to the marketing of your new bestseller
Subscriber News: February 2023
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
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Achilles and the Queen by Kyle Derek McDonald
A video experience based on the winning poem from the 2007 War Poetry Contest sponsored by Winning Writers
Tennessee Williams Museum Short Story & Poetry Contests
In commemorating Tennessee Williams’s 112th Birthday, the Tennessee Williams Museum in Key West is convening short story and poetry contests
ink & peat podcast: Promote Your Book
We help emerging authors promote their books through conversation, shared on the airwaves via the ink & peat podcast. For free.
Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Doug Holder of Ibbetson Street Press curates this blog of poetry news and reviews
The Caged Guerrilla
Incarcerated writer Raheem A. Rahman’s podcast about life on the inside
95 Traditional Poetry Manuscript Presses Who Do Not Charge Reading Fees
This list at Authors Publish was updated in 2023
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…
Bitter Fruit
Critique by Jendi Reiter Who's here for a deep dive into 12th-century heresies? Definitely me. Whether you've never heard of the Cathars before, or your favorite book in college was Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World (me again), Peggy Ann Barnett's historical novel Bitter Fruit will stir your…
All the Wild and Holy
Critique by Jendi Reiter When the Winning Writers family moved to Northampton twenty years ago, we were intrigued by a plaque in a local history exhibit from the early 18th century: “She married a Savage and became one.” Take a tour of Historic Deerfield, some 16 miles north of our…
Ah, Devon Unbowed
Critique by Jendi Reiter Thomas F. Sheehan is our first repeat North Street winner with Ah, Devon Unbowed, a poetry collection suffused with the stoic and largely unspoken tenderness that men feel for their fathers, brothers, and sons. This reflective book, released in 1979, is voiced by a man who…
Gayle Lauradunn
Gayle Lauradunn's Reaching for Air received Finalist for Best First Book of Poetry (Texas Institute of Letters). All the Wild and Holy: A Life of Eunice Williams, 1696-1785 was awarded Honorable Mention in the May Sarton Poetry Prize. Her third collection, The Geography of Absence, was published in 2022. Her…
Lucien Agosta
Lucien L. Agosta, Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1977. In addition to publishing numerous articles in his field, he is the author of four books: Howard Pyle (G.K. Hall, 1987); E.B. White: The Children's Books (Simon…
Lorelei Kay
Being named after a mermaid—the Lorelei of the River Rhine—empowers Lorelei Kay to embrace her mermaid heritage and create a unique writing style. Lorelei became hooked on writing when her father took her on his knee and helped her create her first poem. Years later she attended Brigham Young University…
Cameron Beach
Cameron Beach is a Young Adult author based in Washington, DC. A graduate of Duke University, she is currently pursuing her JD at the University of Virginia School of Law. As a former journalist and speechwriter, she loves to practice blending true-to-life stories with her fictional characters to create something…
Massive Bookshop
Nonprofit online bookseller supports decarceration and bail funds in Massachusetts
Wendy Sibbison
Wendy Sibbison was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1946, has degrees in English from Barnard College (B.A. 1968) and Columbia University (M.A. 1969), and studied law at Rutgers Law School-Newark (J.D. 1977). She grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where her first novel, Helen in Trouble, loosely…
Danny Gorny
Danny Gorny is a comics creator and freelance writer. In his writing, he explores questions of belonging, society, and the stories we tell about ourselves. A graduate of Carleton University, he holds a degree in English Literature, as well as a graduate degree in Medieval Studies from the University of…
Alicia Czechowski
Alicia Czechowski is a painter and draftsman, occasional sculptor and illustrator. She is so far from being a best-selling author as to be almost the inverse. With Paisley Invasion, a graphic novel/coloring book, her pictorial writing aims to actualize the concept that a picture is worth a thousand words (at…
E.G. Radcliff
E.G. Radcliff is a part-time pooka and native of the Unseelie Court. She collects acorns, glass beads, and pretty rocks, and the crows outside her house know her as She Who Has Bread. Her fantasy novels are crafted in the dead of night after offering sacrifices of almonds and red…
Peggy Ann Barnett
Peggy Ann Barnett is a photographer, poet, and writer of historical fiction. Inspired by her grandmother's storytelling of Germanic folktales, she has always been deeply connected to the Middle Ages and the lives of its characters. “Children inhabit stories told to them, they are real living worlds. I could see…
Robert Chazz Chute
Safely tucked away in his blanket fort in Ontario, Canada, Robert Chazz Chute works as a full-time novelist and occasional book doctor. He is a former science and crime reporter who writes apocalyptic epics with heart and killer crime thrillers with muscle. The North Street Book Prize is his fourth…
Monica Canlas Tuy & Eric Tuy
Monica Canlas Tuy and Eric Tuy are proud Filipino-Americans born into big families that enjoy spending time together. They wrote their picture book My Pinsans and Me to celebrate their family bonds and childhood memories to share with their daughter, Amara. Monica's weekly visits with her cousins to see Lola…
Cathy Kreutter
Cathy Kreutter is a retired teacher and librarian turned author and publisher who has spent the last 40 years living in Uganda, a place she currently calls home. During her 26-year career as an International School teacher-librarian, she spent years reading aloud wonderful books from all over the world to…
Kayla Marie Pierre
M. Michelle Derosier (pen name Kayla Marie Pierre) is here to make a difference in her world for Christ. She is an ed-tech nonprofit professional driven to leverage technology to ensure that students in under-resourced schools have access to opportunities for success and the support system to leverage them. She…
William Guion
Photographer and writer William Guion has photographed the landscape and live oak trees of Louisiana for more than 40 years. His goal is to show the importance of the Southern live oak as an essential part of the history, culture, and ecology of the South. His writings and photographs about…
L. Sue Baugh
L. Sue Baugh grew up in rural Illinois, surrounded by woodlands and prairie. There she found her theme of our deep connection to nature in its many dimensions. As that open land began to disappear under development, Ms. Baugh decided to find landscapes that most resembled Earth long before we…
