Iain S. Baird
IAIN S.
BAIRD is an award-winning writer published in numerous literary
magazines in the United States and abroad, including: The Delmarva Review,
Seven Hills Review, CHA: An Asian Literary Journal, The Survivors Review, The Timber Creek
Review, Oracle, The Berkshire Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Louisiana: In Words, and
others. TWO
STORMS is his first memoir.
He is recipient of several prizes for short stories and creative nonfiction from the Maryland Writers’ Association and the Tallahassee Writers’ Association. He won the William March Award for Best Short Story and the Eugene Walter Award for Best Novel. He was a Finalist for the William Wisdom Award from the William Faulkner Festival and won the First Place Award in the Delmarva Review’s 2012 Short fiction Contest. He was nominated for a Pushcart Award in 2007, 2012 and 2013.
He is recipient of several prizes for short stories and creative nonfiction from the Maryland Writers’ Association and the Tallahassee Writers’ Association. He won the William March Award for Best Short Story and the Eugene Walter Award for Best Novel. He was a Finalist for the William Wisdom Award from the William Faulkner Festival and won the First Place Award in the Delmarva Review’s 2012 Short fiction Contest. He was nominated for a Pushcart Award in 2007, 2012 and 2013.
John Clark
JOHN
CLARK's first publication was Gunnery Doctrine, distributed to the
division heads on a naval destroyer. He later was Editor for Fiscal
Notes, a financial newsletter distributed to navy medical offices around the
world. When not at the office, coaching sports or helping care for their children, Welsh
Springer and serial cats, John found time to write short stories and poems.
A graduate of the Naval Academy and George Washington University, he has studied writing and literature at St. Johns College and The Writing Center. His goal is to tell stories that entertain. Recently retired, he and his wife enjoy living in Annapolis and are planning their next European adventure.
A graduate of the Naval Academy and George Washington University, he has studied writing and literature at St. Johns College and The Writing Center. His goal is to tell stories that entertain. Recently retired, he and his wife enjoy living in Annapolis and are planning their next European adventure.
Dawn Davis
DAWN DAVIS grew up as
both a corporate army brat and preacher’s kid, weaving her active imagination and colorful
experiences into short stories while still in elementary school. Always headstrong, she dipped
her toes into self publishing before making a strong effort for
traditional publication instead of after. Her two novels, Until and Ever, are available for Kindle readers
through Amazon.
Dawn hopes to expand her literary resume by offering quality, entertaining, and thought provoking prose for traditional publication. Always ready with a sense of humor, she plans to retire her two book streak of novels with one word titles. In addition to writing, Dawn’s other professional endeavors include her job as a client relations executive at a boutique Washington, DC area marketing firm.
When she’s not writing, working, or wrangling children, she can be found by the water with a good book and a glass of champagne.
Dawn lives in Annapolis with her husband, three children, and dog.
Dawn hopes to expand her literary resume by offering quality, entertaining, and thought provoking prose for traditional publication. Always ready with a sense of humor, she plans to retire her two book streak of novels with one word titles. In addition to writing, Dawn’s other professional endeavors include her job as a client relations executive at a boutique Washington, DC area marketing firm.
When she’s not writing, working, or wrangling children, she can be found by the water with a good book and a glass of champagne.
Dawn lives in Annapolis with her husband, three children, and dog.
Jane C. Elkin
JANE C. ELKIN, a graduate of Bates College and Southern Connecticut State University, is the founder and facilitator of The Broadneck Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such journals as Kestrel, Ducts, Snowy Egret, The Way of the Buffalo, Serving House Journal and Earth’s Daughters under the pen name J.C. Elkin. A Pushcart nominee for non-fiction and a prize-winner in the Maryland Writers’ Association Promising Novel contest, she is also a theater critic and essayist for the Bay Weekly. A self-proclaimed Renaissance Woman, she works as a language teacher, singer, and handwriting analyst.
Patsy Helmetag
PATSY
HELMETAG's creativity was in the physical realm of graphic design, oil painting, and
lawn mowing until 2004 when the Brood X Cicadas emerged. She and her daughter, Kita Murdock,
co-wrote, and Patsy illustrated, a children’s book called Cecily Cicada. Initially it was written to soothe
her granddaughter’s fears, but the naïve little book caught on and sold like hotcakes
from May until July when, alas, the cicadas all died. It was enough for Patsy to get the bug.
And Kita, too, who wrote a novel for young adults called Francie’s Fortune in 2010.
Enjoying the competition with and support of her daughter, Patsy took several writing classes, joined friends in memoir writing, and recently is aspiring to write an adult novel. That’s proving to be the fun challenge of a lifetime.
Enjoying the competition with and support of her daughter, Patsy took several writing classes, joined friends in memoir writing, and recently is aspiring to write an adult novel. That’s proving to be the fun challenge of a lifetime.
John C. Kelly
JOHN
C. KELLY accelerated his professional career by self- publishing a book
on computer performance evaluation in the early 80’s. With that book as a foundation, he
built a computer education and training business which morphed into a software development
company, Datametrics Systems Corporation. He sold the company in 1997. Today, the company is
called Sightline
Systems. John learned early on to never underestimate the power of the
written word.
Over his career, he has published hundreds of articles in trade magazines, newspapers, and conference proceedings. For the past six years he has written a monthly column on small business success for the Annapolis Capital Newspaper. John’s business related activities and many of his small business articles can be found at focusware.com.
Today his writing centers around creative non-fiction with an emphasis on memoir. His essay titled “Eternity is a Long Time” was published in the “This I Believe Series.”
Over his career, he has published hundreds of articles in trade magazines, newspapers, and conference proceedings. For the past six years he has written a monthly column on small business success for the Annapolis Capital Newspaper. John’s business related activities and many of his small business articles can be found at focusware.com.
Today his writing centers around creative non-fiction with an emphasis on memoir. His essay titled “Eternity is a Long Time” was published in the “This I Believe Series.”
Jessica Jordan Paret
JESSICA JORDAN PARET aspires to many things including
becoming a well-paid, talented and highly regarded author. Jessica began her career working for
the government, then took a leap of faith and opened her own boutique. After three and half
years she decided that it would be more fun, and possibly more fruitful, to close the store and
instead publish an Oprah book club-worthy narrative on the humor and horrors of working in
women’s retail. Although guest-starring on the Oprah show is no longer possible,
Jessica continues to write about her experiences in retail and has added parenting and adoption,
both topics very close to her heart, to the list of would-be memoirs. When she’s not
writing or providing clever edits to her colleagues, she enjoys her roles as armchair
psychologist, wife, mother, and part-time retail consultant.
C. Wallace Walker
C.
WALLACE WALKER began her writing career in fourth grade by sending complaint letters
to companies on behalf of her Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking grandmother. Writing success in
those days came in the form of complimentary new fan blades and coupons for free cat food and
cereal. Later she wrote obituaries and edited speeches. After years of piecemeal work, she
secured a real job as a technical translator. Her professional stature and desirability
were inexplicably enhanced by the seizure and confiscation of her passport and visa in the
former USSR. Since then, she was awarded a PEN prize among other honors. Her work can be
found in Ploughshares, The Southeast
Review, The Little Patuxent Review and other
journals. She is a member of the Broadneck Writers’ Workshop and editor of
the Literary Lunch Room. Wallace lives on Maryland’s Severn
River with her husband, two sons and two scheming but lovable beagles.