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29Feb 2016

If at first you don’t succeed…

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Once again, I entered the Fish Short Memoir contest. Keeping my fingers crossed that the judge likes my revamped memoir about my childhood mentor and her Batmobile.

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01Apr 2015

The Miracle of Braile Street (Fish Short Memoir Contest 2015)

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The Miracle of Braile Street It was a muggy summer evening in 1964, years before we could afford air conditioning in our little Detroit bungalow. We were entertaining my Aunt Ariel and Uncle Harry, who were visiting from out of town. In those days, no one in my small middle-class neighborhood had even dreamed of … Read More →

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01Apr 2015

Results for the Fish Short Memoir Contest – Not a winner, but I made the longlist

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Rejection letters are no fun. A day after I received a polite email from American Literary Review Literary Awards telling me that my poem didn’t win their poetry contest, I discovered the results for the Fish Publishing Short Memoir prize were published. I found my memoir on the longlist (yay!) – out of 780 memoirs submitted in total, 197 … Read More →

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07Mar 2015

Writing group to enter Northville “Short on Words” writing contest

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My writing partner found an interesting local contest for us to enter: the “Short on Words” writing contest, held in conjunction with Northville’s 2013 Arts & Acts Festival. Entries should be no longer than 1,500 words and must be postmarked no later than Friday, April 12. The cash award for the winner is $100; second-place … Read More →

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07Nov 2014

November 5th Writers’ Meeting Leads to Two New Contests

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The Writers’ Group met again Wednesday and we discussed several essays as well as our beginning novels. We’ve selected two new contests to enter. The Writer’s Digest Your Story Contest looks intriguing: Every other month, Writer’s Digest presents a creative challenge for fun and prizes. We’ll provide a short, open-ended prompt. In turn, you’ll submit … Read More →

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30Sep 2014

Step One: The American Literary Review Contest

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My new writers’ group partner (we’ll call her “TQ Poet”) and I met again last week and this morning. We’ve decided that entering contests will be a great motivation. I had begun to enter a few last year, but, of course, lost my motivation when I didn’t make it past the short list. TQ Poet … Read More →

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27Mar 2013

Made the Fish Publishing shortlist for the Short Memoir Contest

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I was very surprised and excited to find my name on the Fish Publishing shortlist for the Short Memoir Contest. This is the first writing contest I’ve entered in nearly 20 years, so this is quite a thrill for me. The short list has 81 entrants. The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the 2013 … Read More →

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05Feb 2013

The Fish Publishing Int’l Short Memoir Contest: getting back into the swing of things

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Back in college, when I first began to write, I entered contests. I was new to the idea that I COULD write, and one of my instructors advised me to enter the college essay contest. I won an honorable mention, was invited to a reading, and elicited a few chuckles from the audience with my … Read More →

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