Jacqueline Bardsley won third place for her poem “Adam” in the Beginnings & Ending category of the 85th Bay Area Annual Poet’s Dinner contest. She also received honorable mention in Poets’ Choice for “Midsummer Eve.”
LaDonna Fehlberg‘s “Poetically Speaking” was a winning poem for “Wine Still Life,” a porcelain painting by artist Eugenia Zobel in the juried Pleasanton Main Street Linked Visual Arts and Poetry Show.
Deborah Grossman, won first place in the Light-Humorous category for “Ode to 3G Mercury.” at the 85th Annual Ina Coolbrith Society Poets dinner on March 19th in Oakland.
Alice Kight‘s “Glimmer” was a winning poem for “Mask” in the juried Pleasanton Main Street Linked visual Arts and Poetry Show.
Albert Rothman, author of “Cowlick Kid,” was awarded second prize in the Adult Nonfiction short-story category at the Pleasanton Poetry, Prose & Arts Festival.
Julie Albrecht Royce received honorable mention for her travel writing, Mackinac Island: Escape to the Past, in the 2010 travel writing contest for 52 Perfect Days (www.52perfectdays.com).
Marilyn Slade had two winning poems on Pleasanton Main Street Linked Visual Arts and Poetry Show, “Flying Free” and “Everything of Mine.”