Carrie Jones will provide to the winning bidder a written manuscript critique of a short story or excerpt up to 5,000 words.

Writer, podcaster, editor, and writing coach, Carrie Jones's award-winning fiction has been translated into multiple languages, and ended up on both New York Times and international best sellers lists. She received the Independent Book Publisher's Award for her first novel, Maine Literary Awards and multiple press awards, as well as landing on multiple best book lists. Writing across genres, Carrie was also an award-winning newspaper editor, columnist and photographer, received a MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was awarded the honor of Distinguished Alum. She is the co-editor of Dear Bully and has been interviewed by NPR, Glamour, and multiple other national news outlets. She lives in Bar Harbor with two rescue dogs and a cat and some humans. She's the public image coordinator for Rotary Zone 24 East, which covers the eastern half of Canada, parts of Maine, New York, and soon Michigan. She's also the current Bar Harbor Rotary Club president and ShelterBox Ambassador for District 7790.