Subscriber News: June 2025
Recent Honors
Congratulations to Tong Ge. Her novel The House Filler (Ronsdale Press, 2023) has won numerous prizes, the most recent of which is the 2025 Maxy Award in the Historical Fiction and Adventure category. The next deadline for this book award, with prizes up to $2,000, is January 1. The House Filler is a family saga about a young woman living through tumultuous times in early 20th-century China. Visit the author's website to learn more.
Congratulations to Carolyn Summer Quinn. She has several recent awards to report. Until the Stars Align, a story of the Kindertransport, World War II, and good families that provided foster homes for persecuted Jewish children, was a finalist for the Literary Global Independent Author Awards. The Mystery from Way Back When, a story of boys who find a baby abandoned on the steps of their church, won the Mystery Category of the Literary Global Independent Author Awards and five honors in the Outstanding Creator Awards 2025 Spring Contest, including first prize for Best Mystery. Vanished on the Vaudeville Circuit, regarding the kidnapping of a song and dance man's seven-year-old daughter from the backstage of a theater during the 1920s, received the Wordscape Wonders Award and the World's Best Book Awards Book of Excellence. Visit her website for links to all her books of historical fiction and suspense. She says, "THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of the good information you provide with Winning Writers!"
Congratulations to Roberta Beary. Their haibun "Grief: The Uncut Version" won a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun from the Haiku Foundation. In addition, their haiku collection, Carousel, which previously won a Snapshot Press book award, was named a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award honorable mention for books published in 2024. Crazy Bitches, a collection of new and selected haibun covering 2004-2024, was recently published by MacQ Press, with artwork by their brother Kevin Beary.
Congratulations to E. Laura Golberg. Her chapbook The Terrible Man on the Plane and Other Poems About My Mother was published by Bottlecap Press. She kindly shares a sample poem here. Visit her website for more of her work.
Congratulations to Noah Berlatsky. His experimental poetry chapbook 8X16&IX was released in May by LJMcD Communications. These poems remix and intertwine fragments of Gertrude Stein's writing with Noah's original work.
Recent Publications
Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter will be a featured reader in the second hour of Poetry PRIDE Parade, a Zoom event from 3:00-5:00 pm Eastern time on Sunday, June 22, hosted by poet Sandra Yannone at Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry. The first hour will showcase the anthologies When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton with editor Dustin Brookshire and Lavender Review: A Taste, as well as Lesbian Poet Trading Cards from Headmistress Press. See the Facebook event page for more information. Jendi also performed in the Červená Barva Press Celebrates 20 Years online reading series, reading from their chapbook Barbie at 50. Watch the 50-minute video here.
Angela Carole Brown recently published her eighth book, How the Light Gets In: 10 Principles for Reclaiming Your Spirit, through her Haiku House imprint. The book is inspired by her studies of Buddhism and Taoism and her life as an award-winning novelist and jazz musician. Check out her novel Trading Fours, winner of our 2018 North Street Book Prize in the Literary Fiction category, and visit her website for more information on her books and music.
Jack Brown's poem "Top of the Cyclone" was published in Lunch Ticket (Summer 2025), the literary journal of Antioch University in Los Angeles. Jack says, "Having found a home for this poem through Winning Writers, I thought I would send my appreciation. Over time I have placed quite a few through your newsletter."
Beth Ann Fennelly's essay "Making Plans with Friends" was published in The Missouri Review in their online BLAST feature.
Shobana Gomes has written a writers' self-help book, Small Step, Big Impact, Better Writer, now available as an e-book or audiobook. Visit her blog for spiritual reflections and links to her novels and poetry.
Annie Dawid's essay "Jim Jones and Donald J. Trump: What Do They Share?" appeared on the blog of Inkspot Publishing, publisher of her book Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown. She was also interviewed on the podcast American History Hit, Episode #276, "Jonestown: The Birth of Peoples Temple".
Eva Tortora's poem "There Is Nothing Better" was published in Creations Magazine (June/July 2025), an inspirational wellness publication. Her poem "Pollen" was published at ScreaminMamas. Eva is currently writing lyrics for an off-Broadway play with Summertime Gallery in Brooklyn.
Published: June 9, 2025
