Yearly Archives: 2025
Our Third Writing Competition
Game Warden Joe Patterson trudged through the snow, holding a sputtering torch aloft as he squinted through the darkness. His mind whir...
Laurie Neilsen
Throughout public school and college, I had many teachers who told me I should become a writer. For thirty years, I tried and failed to...
Rita Evermoore
Like most authors, my writing journey began with reading. I was a voracious reader as a child, but it didn’t stop with the books themse...
S.R. Stacy
The motivation and inspiration happened over a long period of time. When I was in first grade, I wrote a series of poems and illustrati...
E.P. Soulless
The original concept and first draft of Cryosurge was conceived sometime in 2018 or 2019. It started as a passion project, something I ...
Natalie Kelda
I’ve virtually always been creating stories. When I was barely 4 years old, I drew “dinosaurs” on a handful of loose papers and made do...
Sara Bittner
I’ve been creating stories for as long as I can remember. Even before I started writing them down (which I started probably at 7), I wa...
Molly Macabre
I've been writing for as long as I can remember, mostly poetry and short stories. It wasn't until 2022 that I decided to try my hand at...
Sarah McKnight
I was always writing stories as a kid, and I would staple printer paper together and write and illustrate my own picture books (some of...
Our Second Writing Competition
We found a boat on the beach by the cave.
Half buried in the sand, the bottom was stripped out and scratched, as though it had hit s...