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Every writer who has held the Featured Member spotlight — a running archive of the faces of YWS.

410 Featured Members

  1. Stay Frosty.

  2. I write sometimes!

  3. I've been gone a long time. A hubby and two kids later, I'm back. Wish me luck, figuring all this out!!

  4. You have to pretend to sleep before you can ever dream. Update 12 years later: sleep anyway. Dreams arent worth waiting for.

  5. My name's Leslie. & without me, it's just "aweso."

  6. Born in India, tamed in the suburbs of the Windy City and the heat of southern Birmingham, I am currently surviving in the battlefield of…

  7. I like poetry, walking along the beach while the moonlight shines upon my soul, drawing rainbows and poking dead things with sticks. If y…

  8. I'm awesome. Get to know me and find out yourself.

  9. Former journalist turned wine merchant who really wants to write a novel one day.



Too often we crave the extraordinary in life, without even learning how to cherish the ordinary first. Friend, I promise you this: if you can learn to take joy in the simple mundane things in life, the extraordinary will take care of itself, it'll be on its way, hurrying towards you. But if you skip the first part, it'll ever evade you.
— Arcticus