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
