Marilyn Slade won the Theme Award Prize (second highest award after Best of Show) for her poem “Is There a Fair as Fair as Our Fair.” Susan Condeff won the Silver Medal for her poem “Woman in the Water” and Honorable Mention for her poem “Summer Storm Perfect”. Alice Kight has three poems exhibited at Alameda County …
Hector Timourian is the 2014 recipient of the Sue Tasker Memorial Service Award. Hector is a charter member of Tri-Valley Writers. In 2007, he established the first critique group and set the rule “be nice” to foster and encourage new members. Hector has been published in several anthologies including the Las Positas College Anthology where he won first prize …
B. Lynn Goodwin-Brown has inked a deal with Eternal Press for her YA novel, Talent. Carolyn Fenzl has published her debut novel The Debt Collectors: A Lucy Vaughn Mystery and launched a new website http://carolynfenzl.com. Sondra Perry has published her second children’s book Baby Carrots -Carrots of Wisdom for Little Ones. The 2014 Oakland Anthology Word …
On June 21, 2014, Tri-Valley Branch honored Hector Timourian with the Sue Tasker Memorial Service Award. Hector is a charter member who joined in 2005 during the organizational year. Hector has been published in several anthologies including the Las Positas College Anthology where he won first prize for his poem “Abraham’s Hope” He has also published a memoir …
We are very proud of our Tri-Valley high school students and celebrate our 2014 writing contest winners.
Deborah “Jordan” Bernal’s poem “Dreams,” was a winner in Booktrack’s poetry competition. You can read her poem at: Booktrack.
“Hero in a White Coat,” Violet Carr Moore’s short story about choosing a primary care physician when she first moved to the Tri-Valley, has been published in Physician Heroes: A Tribute to ValleyCare Physicians.
Fred Norman has published several works; A Hill of Poems, a poem and a mini-short piece in Julaina Kleist-Corwin’s anthology, Written Across the Genres, and a poem and prose in David Madgalene’s anthology, World of Change: New Way Media Fest.
John Bluck recently published The Ship Finder, a sci-fi novel. You can find John’s book on Amazon.
Deborah Grossman’s poem “One Morning in Kowloon Park” won second place in the Nature category in the Ina Coolbirth Contest in October and was published in the Ina Coolbrith Circle Poetry Anthology 2013-14, The Gathering. On the journalism side of her writing, Deborah often publishes in national publications, but she especially enjoyed working on an article in the February issue …
