2021 Writing Mentorship Award Finalists

Alex Johnson has enjoyed a passion for history, anthropology, and mythology from a young age. He believes that an ontological study of stories and mythology can help orient oneself as part of the universal history of humanity. Alex obtained a bachelor's degree in History from Cal Poly, San Luis

Having left school, John was convinced he was going to change the world. Instead he spent four years drifting between dead end jobs. After a strange experience on a beach in Egypt, John decided to go back to college and retrain as a journalist. One of John's English teachers at school had said he

Holly Gross recently completed a year-long Writer’s Intensive Program at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was the recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant awarded by the Minnesota State Arts Board and is currently in the process of completing her first memoir. Holly lives in

Best described as 'a unicorn in pyjamas', I spend most of my days consuming too much coffee, writing contemporary YA, fantasy and murder mysteries and travelling around my home country of Australia. I am lucky enough to be working as a hiking tour guide in the middle of a global pandemic, which is a

Best described as 'a unicorn in pyjamas', I spend most of my days consuming too much coffee, writing contemporary YA, fantasy and murder mysteries and travelling around my home country of Australia. I am lucky enough to be working as a hiking tour guide in the middle of a global pandemic, which is a

Gabi Connor is an aspiring journalist. She dreams of working in South Korea to cover the North-South Korea situation. She spends a lot of time studying the Korean language in order to be prepared when she moves to study abroad in Korea. Gabi also writes songs and plays the piano and guitar in her

Helen Rowe is an award-winning social researcher, an author and a campaigner. Her expertise in the social housing sector includes campaigns on adult literacy and digital inclusion. As co-founder of the Connected Housing Initiative, she fought to improve Internet access for vulnerable and low-income

She/her. 22 years old. Australian. Fiction author, mostly fantasy and adventure/action novels but have dabbled in a bit of everything. I want to become a published novelist and make a difference through my writing. Books have had such an impact on my life that it is my dream to continue this cycle

After graduating from UC Berkeley and earning a Master’s Degree in English Literature from UCLA, Planaria Price taught English as a Second Language to adult immigrants in Los Angeles. She has written several ESL textbooks on folktales and lectured at numerous conferences. In addition to this

After graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in English I began my career as a writer in public relations and advertising. Several years later I decided to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University (in the top five in the US) and financed my education by

A 2021 finalist, I am more than excited to be preparing another submission for the 2022 awards.... Growing up I’ve always been very empathetic, often feeling strong emotions of friends, family and those around me as if they're my own. When I write I love to dig into these emotions, drawing upon

Diane Hopkins is a nonfiction book writing coach for creative and ambitious women who have transformational stories and expertise to share. She has also helped her clients create powerful speeches as invited keynotes speakers at big events including business conferences and United Nations events

I was born in Liverpool during World War II, where I had the fascinating experience of being a schoolmate of John Lennon. He and I went in very different directions, however, and after graduating in medicine, I sailed to Australia to study for my PhD. This was the start of a career in medical

I have undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a MA in Publishing. Story-telling has been embedded into my life from an early age, listening to my parents tell me stories about their lives prompted my interest in the lives of a diverse range

Travel editor for APA Publications (Rough Guides, Insight Guides, Berlitz Guides). Published in National Geographic Traveller, Independent, Financial Times. Winner of the Telegraph's Just Back competition. Currently writing a travelogue about Iran.

Rosemary Hayward is a British transplant to California where she has spent the last twenty years helping Americans do their taxes, growing from parenthood to grandparenthood and learning to write fiction. In 2017 she self-published Margaret Leaving, the story of Jenny North's search for her step

Hello, I am excited to submit two children's story entries this year. They are from a series of books that I am writing about a toy monkey who comes alive. In the last ten years I have been writing on and off. In 2020 I joined Jericho Writers and their online resources have helped me to develop my

Hello Again, I said I would be back. I just had to, as I couldn't believe my luck that amid the whirlwind and the tail end of my storm, I became a finalist in 2021! I was so blooming excited that my writing was getting noticed. Ideally, I would like to win and benefit from the experience and

I was born in Great Britain, a long time ago, then emigrated to Alberta Canada. My wife and I are now retired and living in the South Okanagan, BC Canada. I am in the process of writing 4 fictional books - a collection of short stories, a spy thriller, a western action and adventure book and an