2022 Best Short Stories: Riversong Contest

Sean Anderson lives with his wife in Everett, WA. He loves reading fantasy books that take him on a journey. In his free time he enjoys open water swimming, spending time in nature, and spoiling his cat, Fancy. He is the author of The Year of Oceans and An Adventure Through the Togetherwood.

Robert McDermott has published poetry and short stories in various journals and magazines in both print and online. He won the TESEO short story competition in 2019 and 2020. He lives in Dublin where he teaches English and creative writing.
JONE$TOWN is his first novel.

Markus McDowell is an author and editor of fiction and nonfiction in multiple genres. He is the author of Nuff Sed: A Novel of Desert Steve, To and Fro Upon the Earth: A Novel, Mortals As They Walk, Onesimus: A Novel of Christianity in the Roman Empire, and two short story collections, The Sky Over Chaos and So Deep in Shadow, as well as several nonfiction books in law, theology, and literature in the ancient world. He lives in California on a boat and travels extensively.

Nape Motana is the author of three novels, Fanie Fourie’s Lobola, Son-in-Law of the Boere, Hamba Sugar Daddy, and a non-fiction work, Sepedi Proverbs. His poem, ‘Love Conquers All,’ is published in The 2017 New England Poetry Anthology. Fanie Fourie’s Lobola was adapted into a movie which won the Jozi Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival Audience Choice Awards. Hamba Sugar Daddy was adapted into a stage play. 

Babatunde’s Heroic Journey: From Nigeria to Ukraine via Russia, is his fourth novel, a project which was submitted for his Ph.D. Creative Writing at the University of Pretoria.

Nape has worked as a social worker, journalist, and a copywriter. In the 1980s he worked as a poet-playwright, short story writer, and an anti-apartheid activist. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa, and is married with four children.