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Judges and Sponsors

SANDY CARON (Los Altos, CA) Supports her reading habit as a hospitality consultant, in a company co-owned with her husband. She has been a member of a peninsula book club for over 11 years, and finds bliss through the discovery of new authors, and sharing good material with friends. As an angsted teenager, she indulged in bouts of self-involved poetry, and believes she will be able to identify with all of the subtle messages relayed in the poems submitted by the Young Adults.

CAROLYN A. CLARK (Albany, CA) is currently pursuing an MFA degree in Creative Writing at New York University, where she is Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Square and has taught creative writing to undergraduates. She has a story, “kays and exes,” in Hers 3 and a flashfiction piece, “Envy,” in Orchid: A Literary Review, Issue 6. She looks forward to the Soulmaking Contest each year

MARY EASTHAM (San Jose, CA) Her award-winning short stories and poetry have appeared in over 50 books, magazines, small presses and e-zines in the United States and abroad. Awards for her work include the Paris Writer's Workshop, the Chekhov Award, the Allen Ginsberg Award, two grants from the Arts Council Silicon Valley and a $5,000 grant from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Fndn.. Her poetry collection The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget' was a finalist in the Best Books of 2005 contest. Her Blog The-One-And-Only-Mary (available at Blogit & WordPress.com) has been called 'exuberant', 'a beautiful weaving of your life and writing.' From July-October she conducts essay-writing seminars for college-bound seniors called Tell Me Your Story.. She raises Champion Golden Retrievers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

JANICE FARRELL (San Francisco, CA) has a private practice in Spiritual Direction and trains and supervises Spiritual Director interns at Mercy Center Burlingame. She has a degree in Psychology, certification as a Holistic Health Educator Counselor and has done extensive post grad work in Theology. She invites local poets as annual judges in her eager and full hearted support of poetry which she loves deeply.

KATHRYN HANDLEY (Plymouth, MA) is the recipient of three Professional Development Grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for attendance at Wesleyan and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA., as well as placing in following contests: The Heeking, Chesterfield Film Co. (twice), South Boston Literary Gazette, NLAPW (twice). Kathryn organizes local readings/craft sessions believing that it is important for all writers to be involved with a writing community for inspiration and support. She is also a member of Boston's creative writing center, Grub Street.

TILIA KLEBENOV JACOBS (Framingham, MA) has a BA in Religion and English from Oberlin College, A Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a secondary-school teaching certification from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Writing is Tilia's passion, and she has won numerous awards for both fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The Jewish Magazine as well as the anthologies Phoenix Rising: Collected Papers on Harry Potter and The Chalk Circle, a collection of intercultural essays. Tilia is a member of Grub Street, Boston's permier writing center. She has taught in middle school, high school, and college; at present she teaches writing in two prisons in Massachusetts.

KATHERYN KROTZER LABORDE (Metairie, LA)  is a writer of prose who feels an MFA in fiction and her many years experience as a freelance journalist prepared her for the kind of writing she favors now: literary nonfiction. Ms. Laborde teaches writing at Xavier U. of LA and is a recipient of several grants, including Louisiana's Cultural Economy Grant, received for her literary efforts to capture Katrina evacuation and early recovery experiences. Her work has appreared in Poets & Writers, Callaloo, SNReview and the online literary Salon, Fresh Yarn. She is completing a book for McFarland Publishers. To read literary nonfiction by this writer go to: http://www.freshyarn.com/49/essays/laborde_stay1.htm

JAMIE CAT CALLAN (Cape Cod, MA)  is the author of Bonjour Happiness! and French Women Don't Sleep Alone. Literary awards include Goldwyn Award in Screenwriting, First Prize Wrigers Digest Fiction (twice) and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and fellowships in Germany and France. She's also earned grants from arts councils in Massachusetts, New York State, and Connecticut. She is also an inspirational speaker..

MARY MACKEY (Berkeley/Sacramento, CA) Her published works consist of eleven novels, including The Year the Horses Came, The Notorious Mrs. Winston, and The Widow's War (San Francisco Chronicle bestseller) ; and five books of poetry including Breaking the Fever. They have sold over a million and a half copies and been translated into eleven foreign languages including Japanese, Hebrew, and Finnish. Twice her poetry has been featured on Garrison Keeler's Writer's Almanac. A screenwriter as well as a novelist, she has sold feature scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to various independent film companies. She occasionally writes comedy under the pen name Kate Clemens.

EILEEN MALONE (Broadmoor Village, CA) is the author of The Complete Guide to Writers Groups, Conferences and Workshops (Wiley) and award winning poetry chapbook Letters with Taloned Claws (Poet's Corner Press) and book of poetry i should have given them water (Ragged Sky Press). She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her works are published in over 500 literary journals and anthologies, a significant amount of which have earned prizes and citations. She taught with the California Poets in the Schools Program and California Community Colleges and is host/co-producer of a television interview show on creativity, and Poet Laureate of Broadmoor (a township in the unincorporated area of Colma, where she lives). She directs the Soul-Making Literary Competition which she founded in 1992. http://www.eileenmalone.us

TARA L. MASIH (Andover, MA) is an award winning writer and editor with an MA in Writing and Publishing from Emerson College. She has published fiction and poetry in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. Her essays have been read on NPR and reprinted in textbooks, and she was a regular contributor to the Indian-American and Masala magazines, in which her essays on the topic of race and culture were often featured. She works as a freelance book editor in Massachusetts and is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (a 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year), and author of a story collection, Where the Dog Star Never Glows (finalist in USA Book News’ Best Books 2010 Awards). http://www.taramasih.com/

KATHLEEN McCLUNG (San Francisco, CA) teaches at Skyline College and the Writing Salon. Widely published, she coordinated Women on Writing (WOW) literary events, served as a reviewer for Stanford University’s Willikam Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and participated in recent workshops and panels at the Write on the Sound Conference, Crossroads Irish-American Festival, and Litquake.

LINDA JOY MYERS, Ph.D. (Berkeley, CA) is the author of Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story and a prize-winning memoir Don’t Call Me Mother.. Linda is President of the National Association of Memoir Writers; President of the California Writers Club, Marin branch, and Vice-President of Women’s National Book Association, SF. She is a therapist in Berkeley, a memoir-as-healing writing coach and presents workshops locally and nationally, including Story Circle Network and the Mendocino Writing Conference. http://www.memoriesandmemoirs.com/

JOANNA CATHERINE SCOTT (Chapel Hill, SC) is the author of the novels The Road from Chapel Hill (Penguin/Berkley, 2006); Cassandra, Lost (St. Martin’s, 2004); The Lucky Gourd Shop (MacAdam Cage/Washington Square Press, 2000); and Charlie and the Children (Black Heron Press; 1997); and the nonfiction Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (McFarland, 1989). Scott is also a poet. Birth Mother won the Longleaf Poetry Chapbook Award, 2000; Coming Down from Bataan the Acorn-Rukeyser Chapbook Award, 2001; Breakfast at the Shangri-La the Black Zinnias Poetry Book Award from the California Institute of Arts and Letters, 2004); and Fainting at the Uffizi the Brockman-Campbell Book Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, 2005. Scott was born in England, raised in Australia, and took her graduate degree in Philosophy at Duke University.
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RITA WILLIAMS (Los Altos, CA) is an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter with KTVU-TV in Oakland, California. She's a graduate of Texas Tech University (B.A. in journalism and political science) and George Washington University (M.A. in political science). In 1985-86, she was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University (one of 12 mid-career journalists selected for the honor) and has taught broadcast news writing at Stanford. She's married and is the proud mother of a 20 year old son at Colorado University-Boulder.

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