by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Oct 25, 2019 | Publication News, The Great Novel Contest 2019
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re officially in contract to publish Fellow Travelers by Jesse Bethea. Fellow Travelers was selected as the Grand Prize Winner of The Great Novel Contest 2019. Learn more about The Great Novel Contest here. “Fellow...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Oct 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
This year’s Great Novel Contest drew a pool of exceptional writing from talented writers across a variety of genres. Thank you to everyone who submitted work to the contest. Find the full list of finalists here. With so many great submissions, our judges took...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Aug 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
We received a ton of fantastic submissions for this year’s Great Novel Contest. After much deliberation, our judges have selected ten finalists, from which the grand-prize winner and runner up will be selected. This contest was open to manuscripts of...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
The folks over at The Ohio Writers’ Association are hard at work judging submissions for The Great Novel Contest! A special team of handpicked judges is reading novels and developing a shortlist, which will be announced soon. The winning novel could be in front...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | May 1, 2019 | The Great Novel Contest 2019
The time has come. The Ohio Writers’ Association is now accepting submissions for The Great Novel Contest 2019. Your story is waiting to be told, and we are ready to tell it, so get your manuscript submitted. Eligible manuscripts must be between 50,000 and...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dust off your work-in-progress, your hopes and dreams! The Great Novel Contest opens for submissions on May 1, 2019. We are seeking the next great novelist with the help of The Great Novel Contest 2019. Bellwether has been publishing top-notch literary works since...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Nov 2, 2018 | Publication News, Uncategorized
The Busker by Brooks Rexroat was the Grand Champion of The Great Novella Contest 2018! Congratulations to Brooks Rexroat! As champion, Brooks Rexroat received a publishing contract with Bellwether, an imprint of the Ohio Writers’ Association. We are proud...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Dec 27, 2016 | Publication News, Uncategorized
It is with great pride that we present our newest anthology, Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume II, featuring short stories from fifteen Ohio authors. This eclectic collection of literary and popular fiction spans several genres, and is sure to please readers of all...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Dec 8, 2014 | Publication News, Uncategorized
We released our latest anthology, For the Road. The book is currently available as a paperback and an e-book on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and available for download at all major online retailers. If you live in the Columbus area, you can find the book at these...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 29, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Read Local
Best of Ohio Short Stories is a compilation of 18 fantastic stories by 18 talented Ohio authors. While many of the stories are up on the website for free, purchasing a book is a great way to show your support for local literature. Purchase the book here. We accepted...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 22, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Complete Stories
Charles and Maggie lived deep in the hills of Kentucky. They had an old tractor and an orange ATV and a cellar stocked with smoked meats and canned vegetables, so they rarely worried about the distance to town—a gas pump, a country kitchen and a church. The snows,...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 18, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Complete Stories
It’s awful as hell to see a set of flashing lights off in the distance and know immediately that they’re coming for someone who shares your last name. I was barely even out of the driveway, on the way to school just before dawn broke when I saw them: red and blue...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 15, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Complete Stories
I’m on the phone with Henri, his Gallic voice strangled with emotion, and his news strikes me like ice water on naked flesh. “It’s Grant,” Henri says to me. “He’s slipping in and out. The doctors can’t be sure about anything. Godammit, Herb, I can barely get a...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 11, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Complete Stories
We are bringing in the wheat. In the more remote areas of southwest England, it is still some years before the advent of the combine harvester. The rust-mottled red tractor chugs slowly around the perimeter of the field, puffing clouds of pungent blue exhaust and...
by Emily Hitchcock, Publishing Director | Apr 8, 2014 | Best of Ohio Short Stories, Complete Stories
The paranormal investigators arrived at our house the same day I was scheduled for an abortion at the East Columbus Planned Parenthood. Two of them were men and one was a woman with a purple birthmark near her right ear that looked like a burn. The heavyset man wore a...
