East Meets West, American Writers Review

Announcing the Spring 2012 Contest. Submissions are now being accepted through March 1st 2012. You may wonder why we are calling it our Spring contest. We will be publishing the gorgeous review in the Spring of 2012 and you could be one of our honored authors. The sooner you submit the sooner you will receive a personalized critique of your work and be in the running for prize money and accolades.

Our goal is help you get published. We want to see you get the attention you deserve. All the winners and finalists will be published in the Spring East Meets West, American Writers Review. One of the benefits of our contest, other than the prize money, is the feedback we provide to each of the submissions. We look forward to reading your work. Click here to submit your work.

Feel free to shoot us an email, if you have any questions. And, be on the lookout for the Fall 2011 Review...it's beautiful! See a list of the Fall 2011 winners below.

Check out our blog. There's great information here about the contest judges, the founders of the contest, and general information about writing.

Fall 2011 CONTEST WINNERS:

Congratulations to the winners of the Fall 2011 East Meets West, American Writers Review Contest. We had some fantastic entries to our first contest.

We would like to thank each of you for your entry and your love of writing. You each deserve a round of applause for your excellent work!

We also would like to thank our judges: Dr. Rashida Ismaili AbuBakr, Brian Fanelli, and Ginger Marcinkowski.

Just as a reminder, first place received $100, second place received $50, third place received $25. We also have four honorable mentions and several finalists. Each of the winners and finalists will receive one complimentary copy of the book.

First Place: Dawn Leas for her poetry Vacation, Storytelling, Beyond Your Imagination

Second Place: Randee Bretherick, for her personal essay Plum Creek

Third Place: Salena Landon Reese, for her poem Lighten Up

Honorable Mention:

Anne Henry, for her fiction short story Deal Breaker

Richard Fireman, for his poem True Believer

Vicki Mayk, for her personal essay Next of Kin

Rosaleen Rooney Myers, for her personal essay The Oldest Woman in LA

Finalists:

Gary Crawford, Reflections AND Each With A Story To Tell

Richard Fireman, Synapses

Debbie Israel, Georgia Boy

Congratulations again to all of the winners and finalists. The book will also be available on SERA Publishing for additional purchases. I'm sure your friends and family will be excited to see your work and will want their own copy, with your autograph in it!