The NightWriter Review: Winter 2025/2026
Paperback
Series: The Nightwriter Review, Book 2
Fiction AnthologiesLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.95
ISBN13: 9781629673288
Publisher: Wise Media Group
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The NightWriter Review is the literary journal of San Luis Obispo NightWriters (SLO NightWriters), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission of nurturing the Central Coast writing community and providing writing education, opportunities, resources, workshops, and scholarships. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book go to SLO NightWriters, a support group for writers and poets based in San Luis Obispo, California.
The NightWriter Review, Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter 2025/2026, is a literary journal showcasing a diverse range of voices and styles from members and non-members of the SLO NightWriters, a writing organization based in San Luis Obispo, California. This inaugural issue memorializes the winning entries from the annual Golden Quill Writing Contest in print for the first time, alongside other works of merit and general submissions. The journal aims to provide readers with memorable, thought-provoking, and entertaining examples of the writing craft, while also inspiring writers at all levels.
FICTION:
First Place: The Amateur's Guide to Renovating Your Haunted House by Molly Powers
Second Place: Eating in Darkness by Bobby Sorensen
Third Place: Give Me Liberty . . . Or, At Least, Plan C by Zaslow Crane
NONFICTION:
First Place: Mardi Gras by Rob Rogers
Second Place: Navigating Mauritania by Dawn Smith
Third Place (tie): The Risky Rewards by Dean Thompson
Moth to a Flame by Katy Bonello
POETRY:
First Place: To Vulnerability by Carolyn Chilton Casas
Second Place: Through the Desert by Emily Niebuhr
Third Place: Is This His Way of Counting Coup? by Andréa Ferrell Gannon
The journal also includes an editor's note from Harvey Ardman, the Editor-in-Chief, who expresses the hope that the pieces will be entertaining, instructive, and encouraging.
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