Discover the Next Generation of Christian Storytellers…
Featuring Bailey Gaines
Bailey Gaines is always searching for random facts like the salary of an FBI agent in the 1930s or the routes stagecoaches took across London in the 18th century. She writes historical fiction focused on redemption and reconciliation to help people find hope in the stories of those who’ve gone before. When she isn’t researching obscure details to make her stories come alive, she’s cooking recipes from her stories, sewing period costumes, or helping people find their way out of escape rooms.
About Her Short Story
Schoolteacher Winnie Fallon needs her students to recite well for the superintendent’s visit, especially after her first teaching position ended in failure because of belligerent students. If she’s fired, she’ll have to move back home with her family who are already struggling financially. Winnie sets out to help her students overcome their shyness, and realizes that she first has to overcome her strict, distant style of teaching she adopted at her first school. As she works with her students in the days leading up to the superintendent’s visit, she is continually challenged to show kindness to the children instead of holding them at arm’s length – even when things at school don’t go smoothly.
Her Accomplishments
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Worked closely with industry professionals to draft and edit three novels, a novella, and to develop multiple short stories.
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Received Columbus State University’s Creative Writing Award in 2020.
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Worked on deadline to develop, draft, edit, and market a novella as part of an anthology with Wild Blue Wonder Press.
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Studied abroad at Oxford for six months and earned a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing with a minor in Professional Writing from Columbus State University.
Meet the 10 other authors in the anthology!
Rhianna
Ring-Howell
Gabriella
Banasik
Lyric
Rose
Zoe
Anastasia
Zach
Sollie
Ryan
Elizabeth
Rachel
Evans
Calissa
Ding
Kristianne
Hassman
Juliet
Artman
Support the next generation of writers
100% of the proceeds from this anthology go toward helping up-and-coming writers attend writing conferences where they can pitch their work to agents and publishers.
About the Author Conservatory
Conservatory, noun: “A school specializing in one of the fine arts.”
The Author Conservatory is an online apprenticeship-modeled program that teaches students the writing & business skills they need to get published and support themselves financially. The Voices of the Future anthology features short stories from nine of our 2024 graduates.
