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 Fish Anthology.
The ten published authors will each receive five copies of the Anthology and will be invited to read at the launch during the West Cork Literary Festival in July.
Winners picked April 1.
Crossing my fingers and holding my breath until then…
Dear Katherine,
I was looking for updates regarding Fish Publishing and found your blog. I, too, made it to the short list for memoir, which gave me a “hurray” feeling. And then I made it to the Top 10! Truly an extraordinary experience, especially given 800 submissions. So thought I would say hello to a fellow memoirist and, as I learned from your blog, a fellow technical writer! I had a technical writing and information design firm for more than 20 years. More bio info is on the website we put together to market my book to agents, publishers, etc. (No luck so far.) We were based in Ashland, Oregon and worked for firms electronically up and down the West Coast. So, hello! I’d enjoy reading the piece you submitted to Fish and be happy to share mine. Wish my husband and I were going to Ireland but too much going on here.
Hope I’m not intruding. It would be a pleasure to hear from you.
Susan DuMond