Contest Judges
Michael Khandelwal writes poetry and fiction as well as editorials, profiles, and features for Hampton Roads Magazine. He is the past poetry editor for Portfolio Weekly and a web content manager for The American Council on Education. He attended USC as an undergraduate and graduate student (MPW with three theses: fiction, poetry,
screenplay) and has studied under poets James Ragan, William Matthews, and
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and writers Betty Friedan, Shelly Berman, Paul Gillette,
John Rechy, Ben Masselink, Sy Gomberg, Shana Alexander, and Gay Talese. In Los
Angeles, he worked in film and on the radio while teaching neuroscience at USC
and poetry, drama, and acting in the city. He is a co-founder of The Muse Writing Studios in Norfolk and is
the President of the 2008 Virginia Electoral College.
Rusty Barnes received his B.A. from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Emerson College. His fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in over a hundred fifty journals and anthologies. After editing fiction for the Beacon Street Review (now Redivider) and Zoetrope All-Story Extra, he co-founded Night Train, a literary journal which has been featured in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, and on National Public Radio. Sunnyoutside Press published a collection of his flash fiction, Breaking it Down, in November 2007 and his collection of traditional fiction, Mostly Redneck in 2011. MiPOesias published his poetry chapbook Redneck Poems in October 2010. He is a nationally recognized and oft-solicited authority on flash fiction under all its various names and permutations, and serves on writing conference faculties and panels throughout the country, including recently with Associated Writing Programs, Somerville News Writers Festival, Writers@Work, The Parlor, and Grub Street Writers, as well as their annual Muse & Marketplace conference. He taught composition, fiction writing, and literature for over ten years in New England universities such as Emerson College and Northeastern University. 
Mike D'Orso's work includes 16 books, all in the form of narrative nonfiction. Eight have been national bestsellers, three have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Honors for his work include the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, inclusion among Newsweek magazine's list of "50 Books For Our Times," selection as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and as the American Library Association's Nonfiction Book of the Year, and inclusion three times in The Sporting News' annual Best Sports Stories anthology. Mike lives and works in Norfolk.
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