A. W. Powers, has created the Psychic Guardian Angel series, the Psychic Sidekick series, and is the author of the thriller Properly Dead, all published by Marlowe and Vane. He is the co-author, with C. N. Buchholz, of the thriller In Too Deep, and the paranormal thriller The Song Calls, with Laurie Lynnsee, both published by the Mayhem Books imprint of Wordwhipper Press. He is trying to understand how his hometown may have influenced his writing, or if it was the ghost that shared their home in North Minneapolis.
He can be found at www.wmjanderson.com or
www.awpowers-writer.com.
His alter ego, William J. Anderson writes poetry and non-fiction from his home Champlin, Minnesota, right across the Mississippi River from Anoka, the Halloween Capitol of the World, where he was born and raised. He is a member of Cracked Walnut, the League of Minnesota Poets. Active in our writing community, William is the facilitator and host or co-host of the Cracked Walnut Writing Collective, and two reading series: Writer’s Night Out and the 5th Wednesday Reading Series. William is a member of the Loft Literary Center, Rain Taxi and the Sisters in Crime. He is the founder of Wordwhipper Press.
Awards
Finalist for 2017 Freddie Award for Writing Excellence (FAWE) sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, Florida Chapter: In Too Deep
3rd Prize, SE MN Poets Medical Term Contest: “Tinea Pedis”
Honorable Mention, 2020 LOMP annual poetry contest: “An Ode”
1st Honorable Mention, 2022 LOMP Yarn Spinner Award: “Revenge of the Dogs”
3rd Honorable Mention, 2022 Florence Hynes Willette Memorial Award: “Toilet Paper”
3rd Honorable Mention, 2022 Rock Paper Poem Award: “Rock, Paper, Scissors”
2nd Merit, 2022 Mississippi Valley Poets and Writers Award: “Weed Free Garden”
4th Merit, 2022 LOMP Bring Back the Prairies Award: “A Glimpse of the Past”
4th Merit, 2022 LOMP Grandview Poets Award: “H2O Oh”
Organizations
Member of Sisters in Crime, national organization and Twin Cities and Guppies chapters
Member of the League of Minnesota Poets (LOMP)
Chair of the Bookstore committee
Vice-President of the Cracked Walnut Chapter
Member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Sustaining member of the Loft Literary Center
Sustaining member of the Rain Taxi Review of Books
Member of the Word Whippers critique group
Member of the Peace and Social Justice Writing Group at the Loft Literary Center
Past-president of Friends of the Champlin Library
Friend and Supporter of Poets and Writers
Friend and Supporter of MotionPoems