The Writer's Journey: Jay Byars

Accolades:

Recipient of 2011 Best of the Web awarded by The Examiner.com for The Writer’s Journey

The Writing Center Review Volume 16, Spring 2012 Review Staff Member

The Canto 24^th Issue, 2012 Co-Editor in Chief

2013 Graduate of Kent State University at Stark

2013 Graduate of Kent State University Honor’s College

Freshman at Fairfield University and earning his MFA in Creative Writing

Winner of the 2013 Winter Semester Fairfield University Poetry Contest

Recipient of the 2103 Semester Fairfield University Trueben Award

Associate Editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose … Volume 13

Publications include the:

New Hope Herald Editor 1992-2002

Writers Journey Blog Editor 2007 to current

The Writing Center Review Volume 15, Spring 2011

Canto 24^th Issue 2012

“In God’s Silence” published in 2013

The Gay People’s Chronicle

His Artwork has appeared at:

Private Exhibits held in 1999

Make A Wish 1995- 2002

National Barbie Convention 1999-2002

Dream Halloween 2005 and 2006

IDEX 2006

Clinton AppleFest 2010

His personal story has appeared in:

The Cleveland Plain Dealer-- twice

Washington Post

Akron Beacon Journal

Canton Repository

The Writer's Journey