Results: The Nasiona Writing Prompts Tournament #4

Rupa Wood grew up in London, England with a garden full of rabbits. An immigrant to Canada, a daughter and grand-daughter of political asylum seekers, she is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the philosophy of commonplace magic. Rupa is a post graduate student at Oxford University studying Creative Writing.

Mark Todd is a teacher and emerging writer from Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast where he first studied contemporary poetry and creative writing. He currently lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he is learning to hone the craft of poetry while trying to stay warm.

I’ve been a writer since the third grade, when I was assigned my very first book report on the journalist Linda Ellerbee. I was a reporter for local newspapers on a part-time and freelance basis while raising my two daughters. Prior to having children, I taught middle-school English at an alternative school in Spring, Texas. Today, I reside in Florida, and work with legislators on the state and national level to advocate for healthcare and women’s rights. I’ve recently completed my first novel and am working on my second. I have been previously published in The Feminine Collective.

Sarah Chavera Edwards is a Chicana writer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her writing focuses on mental health, the Mexican American experience, and random tales of childhood. She is currently writing a memoir of her experiences with mental illness.

I’m a lover of micro-essays, and 100 words may be my sweet spot–my Tiny Love Story that appeared in the NY Times in 2019 was also included in their 2020 anthology. I also love the long form, as in book-length, as in memoir. Mine–“Portrait of a People-Pleaser and the Son Who Paid the Price”–is currently available for representation. “Locked Inside” is a reflection on that story. I live with my husband of thirty-eight years in perpetual quarantine, or so it seems, in upstate New York. More of my story and writing can be found at www.karendebonis.com

Gina Sampaio began acting publicly at age four and keeping a journal at age fourteen. By forty she figured out how to combine those two passions with blogging and storytelling. In spite of never having a really good idea about what to be when she grew up, she’s somehow exactly what she always wanted to be.