By Amy Earls
When I first agreed to become the next director of the Cascade Christian Writers Conference, departing director Christina Suzann Nelson shared with me the number one piece of advice that someone passed on to her when she stepped into the role:
Don’t
2025 Cascade Writing Contest Winners
ARTICLE, COLUMN, NONFICTION SHORT STORY
First Place
Becky Alexander
“A Little Help from JFK”
Second Place
Cecil Taylor
“The Baby Is Stronger Than Anyone Knows”
DEVOTIONAL
First Place
Barbara Culley
“Numbering Our Days”
Second Place
Laurie Allred Boyd
“In All Things”
FICTION SHORT STORY
First Place
Jackie Melvin
“Forever Person”
Second Place
Rick Taylor
“Just a Potter’s Daughter”
POETRY
First Place
Kathleen R. Ruckman
“My
By Tara Johnson
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
~ Thoreau
Each year, I meet countless people who tell me they dream of writing, but only a fraction of them take the first step. Why?
Here are
by Becky Wade
1) Let every critique you receive sway you. Ever hear that “too many cooks spoil the broth”? Sometimes it’s better to whip up something all by yourself that you absolutely LOVE than let lots of “adviser cooks” taste your recipe, comment on it, alter
by Matt Mikalatos
We spend a lot of time talking about the skills needed to be a writer and precious little talking about the character and heart writing requires.
Yes, writing is rewriting, and one must learn all the rules about commas, when to use a semicolon,
Written by
Barbara Rice
Prayer Team Member
“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
