by christawojo@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2022 | blog, Contest Winners, Member News, Uncategorized, Writing Contest
After reading amazing fiction, I always ask, who writes like this? What drives them? Where do they get their ideas? Last month, we announced our Writers Mastermind Short Story Contest winners. In this series, I interview each of them to discover the soul behind the...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized
Barbara Weitzner is the grand prize winner of the Writers Mastermind 2021/2022 Short Story Contest with Away from the World and All the Horrific Things That Happen In It. Poignant and heartfelt, it explores the reflections of a remorseful man as he lives out the rest...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized, Writing Contest
Away From the World and the Horrific Things That Happen In It by Barb Weitzner As time and life passes, my fellow neighbors and I, most of us well into our eighties, gather every morning to claim our familiar positions at a table under an umbrella on the veranda, at...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 26, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized, Writing Contest
If No One Speaks by Sam Szanto When they threw my kitten into the furnace, I thought: how in God’s name can I survive this? But what else can I do? Sometimes I think of slitting my wrists, but picture Masha’s face when she hears she will never see her mother again....
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 25, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized, Writing Contest
Feathers by Tomas Marcantonio There were three who came to the outpost to hunt. The first was a young woman of eighteen. She was timid and bird-like, with a pale skin and eyes that betrayed a lack of sleep. The second was a man of twenty-eight. He was thin and had a...
by christawojo@gmail.com | Mar 24, 2022 | blog, Uncategorized, Writing Contest
The Elements by Yong Takahashi When does life begin? Does it start in the air as the breeze carries a lover’s call? Does it start in earth as warm bodies roll around in the soft grass? Does it start with fire as a look ignites new possibilities? Does it start in water...
