SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest Judges Hard at Work - Meet Mindy Conde

With a Master’s degree in Literature and a lifelong passion for the written word, Mindy is in her element as an editor for TheCrimsonQuill.com, which she runs along with friend and business partner, Natalie 

McDermott. She loves working with authors to help them perfect their manuscripts and turn those tricky passages into masterpieces. After graduating from Cal Poly, Mindy and her husband didn’t want to leave the area and now call the Central Coast their home. She lives in the lovely, and often foggy, little town of Los Osos with her husband, two cats, and piles and piles of books. When she’s not editing or reading, Mindy enjoys local wine tasting, baking, and hiking in the many beautiful areas the Central Coast has to offer. 

SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest Judges Hard at Work - Meet Sean Boling

Sean is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories. He teaches English at Cuesta College and Creative Writing at the Paso Robles Youth Arts Foundation. He lives in Paso Robles with his wife and two children.

SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest Spotlight on the Judges - Matthew Fleming

Matthew Fleming teaches poetry, critical thinking, composition, and literature at Cuesta College where he has taught for the last eighteen years.  His poetry has been published in the journals Night Roses, the University Review, The Forum, and he was awarded the Dominic J. Bazzanella Literary Scholarhip for poetry as well as being honored as the 2002 "Teacher of the Year.” 

His other writing pursuits include screenwriting for film and t.v. as well as music performance and recording.  

There is still time to enter the 27^th annual SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest!

Join your fellow writers and enter your piece today before the September 15 deadline.  The theme is Liberation which must be used for every entry in Flash/Short Fiction, up to 1,500 words; Poetry, up to 40 lines; and Creative Non-Fiction, up to 1,500 words.

For the low entry fee of $15 you can win $500 for first place, $250 for second and $100 for third. 

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