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I was thrilled to learn my essay, “The End of Pinktober” took first place in Large Market Radio, Editorial/Commentary, in the WI Broadcasters’ Assoc. Awards for Excellence for 2012.! You can listen to the essay at: http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/lake_effect_segment.php?segmentid=9807
I was invited into a conversation via email with four other women poets and bloggers to share our reflections on blogging about writing. The exchange was initiated by Sarah Busse of Verse Wisconsin and is published in the just released spring edition, #111. It’s title: “A Means to Open the World: A Conversation Around Blogging, Five Women in Three Acts,” with Sarah Busse, Jennifer Morales, Peggy Rozga, Margaret Swedish, and Lisa Vihos.
You can read it here: http://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue111/prose/busse.html
My script for a one act play called “A Late Night Phone Call” has been accepted by the Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa for production. It will be on stage on June 14,15,21,22 (7:30 pm) at
Carte Blanche Studio’s 1024 S. 5th St. Milwaukee. Thanks to my roundtable for suggesting I turn my story into a play and specifically to Marjorie Pagel for her one-on-one help.
My first chapbook, Microtones, is a combination of 24 pieces of poetry and short fiction, published by Cervena Barva Press in Boston, MA. You can order copies here: http://www.thelostbookshelf.com. Also, the first review is available to read here: http://www.fictionaut.com/blog. Thanks everyone for the great support! I’m available for signed copies also. Please let me know at rguyvaugh5003@gmail.com.
I submitted two essays to the November/December Humor Press National Writing Competition. Just received word that I took Second Place for one.
http://www.humorpress.com/Results/Essays-2012_10-12/aa-Winners/Essay-2012_10-12-Winners.htm#2
I actually preferred my other entry, which was a Finalist http://www.humorpress.com/Results/Essays-2012_10-12/a-Finalists/Essay-2012_10-12-Finalists.htm#5 Thanks to Kim Suhr and my fellow Roundtablers at Kim’s Wednesday Morning RedBird-RedOak Writing critique group.
I acted on some of the suggestions; if I had acted on a few more, I might have won First Place!
My essay about changing holiday traditions aired on 89.7 WUWM’s Lake Effect on Dec. 12th. Things sure do change as the kids age!
My essay, “What’s Really Going on in Wisconsin,” appears in a new book just released from Wipf and Stock, entitled: “A Whole Which Is Greater: Why the Wisconsin ‘Uprising’ Failed,” eds. Paul Gilk & David Kast. Here’s the link: https://wipfandstock.com/store/A_Whole_Which_Is_Greater_Why_the_Wisconsin_Uprising_Failed
So excited to share that my little collection, “Maybe I’ll Learn, Snapshots of a Novice Mom,” is available as an ebook and paperback.
More info at http://www.kimsuhr.com
Many thanks to the entire RedBird-RedOak community–all along, I’ve made it look like I was teaching *you*, but it was really the other way around!
My flash fiction piece “Crayon” was accepted by Midwestern Gothic magazine for Issue 8, to be printed in early January . . . My short story “Now and at the Hour of Our Death,” published online in Full of Crow last December, is now being considered for an anthology of stories set in the Midwest . . . This past summer I wrote and illustrated a picture book for grownups called “Chiffon” and had it printed to share with friends.
“Poached Is Not an Option” is now available in print version on Amazon and in the studio. Thanks to Judy and Dave and all my RedBird-RedOak friends.
I had a new Lake Effect essay broadcast on 11-9-2012 entitled Alarm Bells in the Patient-Doctor Relationship. http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/lake_effect_segment.php?segmentid=9840
Tom’s book, “The Singular Adventure of Charles Goodfoote” has been launched! Our launch party at FIXX coffee house in October found us celebrating with about one hundred friends and family. What a hoot! Tom’s up-coming appearances include a talk at 9 am at the annual Murder & Mayhem fund raiser for the Muskego Public Library Nov.10, and a book signing at Mystery One Bookshop, 2109 N. Prospect, 7pm, Nov. 15. Couldn’t have done it without you, Redbird! Thanks a million.
Note – update from here up for next WWA newsletter.
I have three poems in the new online edition (one will be in the print edition as well) of Verse Wisconsin, in their special “It’s Political” issue: http://versewisconsin.org/Issue110/poems/swedish.html.
Also placed third in the WWA’s fall Jade Ring essay contest, the category Memoir/Reminiscences, entitled “The Cemetery.” Thanks to my RedBird critique group for all the support!
My piece “Scherzo” appears in Issue 3 of Lost in Thought magazine, it’s a great looking mag and the illustration Kyle Schruder did for it couldn’t be more right!
My essay, “The Most Important Person in the Room” aired on 89.7 WUWM’s Lake Effect Program on Sept. 21 and Oct.4th. Thanks to Mitch Teich for the opportunity and to all the wonderful writers in my roundtable group.
My essay, “Peace in the Trailer,” was aired on 89.7 WUWM’s Lake Effect Program on Sept. 3rd. (http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/lake_effect_segment.php?segmentid=9587) Many thanks to coordinating producer, Stephanie Lecci, who does a marvelous job of putting contributing essayists at ease and editing out all the goof ups.