Meet our 2024 Creative Nonfiction judge, Anne Janzer.
The final round of last year’s creative nonfiction entries in the Golden Quill Writing Contest was judged by award-winning author Anne Janzer. We’ll be announcing our 2025 judges soon!
Anne Janzer is an award-winning author, armchair cognitive science geek, nonfiction author coach, marketing practitioner, and blogger. She’s on a mission to help people spread important ideas through writing. As a professional writer, she has worked with more than one hundred technology companies, writing in the voice of countless brands and corporate executives. She is author of the books Get the Word Out, Writing to Be Understood, The Writer’s Process, The Workplace Writer’s Process, and Subscription Marketing. Her books have won numerous awards, including the Independent Book Publishers IPPY award, the Foreword Indies Book of the Year, Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal, and the IndieReader Discovery Award. They have been translated into Japanese, Korean, and Russian language editions.
The 2025 Golden Quill Writing Contest opens April 1, 2025. First and second place Golden Quill Writing Contest winners in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are guaranteed publication in the journal, and all submissions will be considered for publication.