The Creative Writing Program is sponsoring Newark Academy’s first ever Flash Fiction Contest. Upper school students are invited to submit one entry of up to 500 words. Enter here!
Meet the Judges
Tess Callahan James is a writer, meditation teacher, and former creative writing teacher at Newark Academy. Her critically acclaimed novel is April & Oliver.
Liz Maccie is a TV writer, producer, and novelist. Her YA novel, Lessons I Never Learned at Meadowbrook Academy, is loosely based on Maccie’s own experience of attending high school at Newark Academy.
Tom Reed is a writer and former professor of Victorian and medieval literature at Dickinson College. He is the author of one nonfiction book, The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Victorian Alcohol Debate, and one novel, Seeking Hyde.