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Home » The Bookwoman Blog » 2020 WNBA Writing Contest Finalists Announced

2020 WNBA Writing Contest Finalists Announced

Ra Avis

Dorothy Odonnell

Carol Fischbach

Jessica Smith

Naomi Weiss

Tiffany Promise

Teresa Janssen

Anndee Hochman

Isabel Walsh

Lauren Parvizi

Celine Aenelle-Roacha

Bonnie Olsen

Louise Harland

Lisa Leyenda

Lucy Dixon

Sunshine Barbito

Tess Kelly

Samantha Thomas

Claire Fullerton

Gretchen Ayoub

Amy Wright

Kate MacGuire

Mary McLaughlin

María Ochoa

Sheila Riley

Judy Goldman

Andrea Young

Tiffany Promise

Chloe Ella

Ellaraine Lockie

Judy Luttrell

A Kaiser

Iris Dunkle

Rhett Watts

Meet Our Judges & Readers

We received really strong submissions for the 2020 WNBA Writing Contest. With several hundred submissions to review, our reading committee and judges have been busy reading.

Judges

Creative Nonfiction Judge: Mireya S. Vela

Fiction Judge: Francesca Lia Block

Flash Judge: Kara Vernor

Poetry Judge: Shonda Buchanan

2020 WNBA Writing Contest Reading Committee

Check out the reading committee’s bios!

Contest Chair/Lead Editor: Andrea Auten

Fiction Lead Editor: Kori Wood

Fiction Lead Assistants:

Jahzerah Brooks

Adrien Kade Sdao (They/Them)

Gabriella Souza

Stephanie Teasley

Creative NonFiction Lead Editor: Diane Gottlieb

Creative Nonfiction Assistant Editors:

Shaneka Jones Cook

Alexis McCadney

Kate Carmody

Sarita Sidhu

Flash Fiction Lead Editor: Loumarie Ivette Rodriguez

Flash Fiction Assistant Editors:

E.P. Floyd

Ronni Sandroff

Poetry Lead Editor: Amanda Lopez

Poetry Assistant Editors:

Barbara Fant

Erica Charis-Molling

Cecilia Martinez-Gil

Cristina Medina

Meet Our Readers

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