Hybrid nonfiction/Children/YOung adult
Stone Mims
Stone Mims is a writer and Instructor of English at Interlochen Arts Academy. His work has appeared in Politics/Letters Live!, Ignatian Literary Magazine, Lenox and Parker, and Sazerac Smoky Ink. He has attended the New School’s Paris Writing Intensive Program and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and was a writer-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux. His work, in the classroom and on the written page, explores the Black American experience.
Mims holds a BA in Literary Studies and Creative Writing from Bard College and an MFA in Fiction and Writing for Children and Young Adults from the New School.
His manuscript Just Another Native Son was awarded a category win in Memoir Magazine’s 2025 Memoir Prize for Books and recently received a Pushcart Prize nomination for one of its essays.
urban fiction
Tarshika Shavon
Tarshika Shavon is an emerging urban fiction author with a degree in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. She is a devoted and loving mother of two boys and draws her inspiration from her love of reading and the strong support of her family.
Her literary work reflects resilience, love, power, and giving voice to a community that is often silenced. Tarshika writes not just to tell a story, but to create an experience. Every page is meant to be felt, not just read.
urban fiction/women fiction
Imara Black
Imara Black was born in Dublin, Georgia, and found her voice in Atlanta, where tragedy and triumph shaped her passion for storytelling. Her upcoming debut novel is inspired by true events, blends the raw intensity of urban drama with the soul of women’s fiction. Beyond the page, Imara is devoted to sharing stories that transform pain into power, truth into art, and community into strength.
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