Tri-Valley Writers members have been busy, busy, busy. Here are some recent publication successes. Stephanie Bolanos’s flash fiction story, “Faces”—the one she read at TVW’s September general meeting—has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Short Story America contest. George Cramer’s short story, “Why Me?” is published in 0-Dark-Thirty, The Veterans Writing Project. …
Blake Heitzman‘s short story, “The Bramble Trail” is scheduled for the September 2015 issue of The Ultimate Writer after waiting three years for acceptance confirmation.
Mary Heaton won GOLD in the Travel/Guidebook Non-Fiction category in the 2015 Global Ebook Awards for Rambling Through the Emerald Isle. Sharon Svitak, writing as Sharon Burgess, won SILVER in the Fiction-Romance/Erotica (Contemporary) category in the 2015 Global Ebook Awards for Simply Irresistible: A Spruce Creek Romance.
Daniel Hobbs, writing as Ben Leiter,) published his novel, Baby Boomers’ Love-Betrayal, in August 2015.
George Cramer participated in two panels, “Writing in Different Genres” and “The Art of Writing Novels and Short Stories,” at the Public Safety Writers Association annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in July. George’s short story “Why Me?” won third place. Julie Royce also took part in the panel entitled “Writing in Different Genres” at the Public Safety …
Stephanie Bolanos’ short story, “A Stranger in the House,” has been accepted for publication by the 3Elements Review. It will be available online this summer. Victoria Emmons’ poem,”Sir Chemo” has been published on the Poetry Wall at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto. Lakshmi Warrier’s feature article, “The Little Independent Bookstores that Could” has been published …
LaDonna Fehlberg had three poetry submissions juried into the 2015 Alameda County Fair. “Two of Me”—photo/poem was awarded Silver. Photo/poem “Dune Maiden” and poem “Finally” were awarded Honorable Mentions. Art Tenbrink’s poem, “Sesquicentennial,” won Best of Theme (Rock Red, White, and Blue) in the 2015 Alameda County Fair.
Tri-Valley Writers award-winning members published in 2015 Las Positas anthology, Impressions. Patrick Coyle won first place in prose for his piece, “Time of Your Life”. Patricia Boyle won Honorable Mention in Prose for her piece, “Pathfinder”. Alice Kight won Honorable Mention in Poetry for her piece, “Glimpse”. Julaina Kleist-Corwin won Honorable Mention in Prose for her piece, …
Stephanie Bolanos’ short story, “Child of the Mountain Peaks”, has been accepted for publication in the fall 2015 issue of Bosque magazine. Another Stephanie Bolanos’ short story, “Assembly Required”, appeared in the spring 2015 edition of Barbaric Yawp, the literary magazine of BoneWorld Publishing. J. Mills’ fiction short story, “Blizzard”, was accepted by The …
Alice Kight had three poems recently published. The first, “A Visit to Alden Lane”, is posted in the passageway at Alden Lane Gardens and Nursery in Livermore. “Diary” and “Verities”, two winter poems, were published in the February issue of Song of the San Joaquin.
