THE 2025 SLO NIGHTWRITERS GOLDEN QUILL WRITING CONTEST WILL OPEN 4/01/2025

Get your words ready! The theme for the 2025 SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest is: RISK.

The SLO NightWriters Golden Quill Writing Contest will open April 1, 2025, and close June 30, 2025. In the meantime, please subscribe to our mailing list for updates and occasional news and invitations to special events.

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2025 Judges:

Fiction: Juliet McDaniel, the author of Mr. and Mrs. American Pie, the novel upon which the hit Apple+ TV series Palm Royale is based.

Nonfiction: Deanne Stillman, the author of American Confidential, Twentynine Palms, Mustang, and Desert Reckoning.

Poetry: Caleb Nichols, the current San Luis Obispo County Poet Laureate.

Thank you to our 2024 judges: Tod Goldberg, Anne Janzer, and Marguerite Costigan, and congratulations to our 2024 winners, listed below. All winners will be published in the debut issue of The NightWriter Review, and all entries will be considered for publication.

San Luis Obispo NightWriters ("SLO NightWriters") is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission of nurturing the Central Coast writing community and providing writing education, opportunities, resources, workshops, and scholarships. The goal of the Golden Quill Writing Contest is to discover and amplify voices in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and is an annual fundraiser for the organization.

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