Meet your Judges!
November J. Brown
November J. Brown (@writesofnovember) is a writer, social media strategist, and influencer with over 250,000 followers across platforms. She enjoys reading and writing short stories, fantasy novels, and any fiction that features cosmic peculiarities, women, and trees. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her puppy, Panda Bear.
Sophie Riley
Sophie Riley (@novelbound) is an author, illustrator, and literary agency assistant with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Art & Design. She attended the Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford University and co-founded a writing community called NovelBound, which offers retreats, events, and resources to writers around the world. She loves reading and writing stories that pack an emotional punch, with messy, enduring relationships at the center.
Summer Weaver
Summer Weaver (@summerweaverwrites) has a master’s degree in English Literature and has experience teaching university writing courses. When she’s not hiking with her kids or baking something chocolatey, she’s dreaming up fictional worlds (usually with pirates or space ships, or both).
Jenn dePaula
Jenn dePaula (@jenndepaulabookmarketing) is a marketing expert with over 25 years of experience. She got her start as a working in the music industry as a publicist for 10 years and has worked exclusively with authors for the past 15 years, helping thousands of authors ranging from New York Times best sellers to self-published authors starting from scratch.