Monday, September 3, 2012

Coffee and Critique Kudos and Announcements

Several members of Coffee and Critique have been recognized recently for their writing accomplishments. I e-mailed our members last week and asked them to send me their Kudos, and the following writers answered. Wow! Here are the responses I received.

Please join me in congratulating them on their writing successes.

* Marcia Gaye won the 2012 Deane Wagner Poetry Award for “Apology” and was invited to read her poem at the award ceremony. Her short essay on first love, “A Relatively Innocent Love,” was published by Spruce Mountain Press in Heartscapes Anthology.
 
* Jack Zerr's poem "Grah Nade" won 10th place in the Writer's Digest annual poetry competition.
 
* Doyle Suit's poem "I'm in Good Shape for the Shape I'm In" has been published in Storyteller Magazine in September. His YA novel BAKER MOUNTAIN is scheduled to be published by High Hill Press later this year.
 
* Alice Muschany's true stories "Hats Off to Betty with Love" and "Forever and Ever" have been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul HOPE AND HEALING FOR YOUR BREAST CANCER JOURNEY, released September 2012.
 
 
Announcements
 
Speaking of Chicken Soup, today Donna Volkenannt has posted links to submission call outs from Chicken Soup for the Soul and Panera Bread on her blog Donna's Book Pub 
 
PLEASE NOTE: Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, September 4, Coffee and Critique will start meeting half an hour earlier--at 9:30 a.m.
 

4 comments:

Sioux Roslawski said...

Please extend my congratulations to Marcia (It's always, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" when it comes to poetry prizes;), Doyle, Jack and Doyle.

Sioux Roslawski said...

Oops, sorry. It's okay to give Doyle double congratulations (he's so humble, after all) but please tell Alice again, "Congrats." (Her red pen, if she saw this comment, would have immediately corrected my mistake.;)

Donna Volkenannt said...

Hi Sioux,
You are so sweet! I will tell them tomorrow at C&C.
Donna

Marcia G. said...

Thx Donna, for convincing me that our work needs to be sent out into the world to receive any recognition. Keeping it locked away in a file is stifling. So I send out lots of work and once in a while someone likes it enough to publish of bestow an award. It's true -- you must enter to win!