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CWC’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review, a collection of poems and stories selected from 20 CWC branch publications, is now available on Amazon. The following TVW members have pieces published in this 300+ page collection: Jordan Bernal for her poem, “Writing at Zero Dark Thirty;” Shannon Brown for her prose, “A Cheese Sandwich on Main Street;” Kate McCarroll Moore for her poem, “Nature Doesn’t Seem to Know or Care;” and Violet Carr Moore for her prose, “Search and Rescue.”
Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review: CLub, California Writers, Apodaca, Mike, Margotta, Jenny, Tuck, Elisabeth, Zone, Richard, Krieg, Joyce: 9781735637235: Amazon.com: Books

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Linda Drattell’s second poetry collection, The Lighter Side of Horse Manure, is now published by Finishing Line Press. This collection shares the humorous (intentional or not) wisecracking wit of Linda’s mischievous aging farm animals. Pre-order now until August 23, 2024 for a discounted price of $17.99 plus shipping. After that date, the price will increase. Books will be shipped in October. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-lighter-side-of-horse-manure-by-linda-drattell/.

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Jim Rowson’s Uncommon Scents (written with Bruce Berls and published in 2022) was shortlisted for the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize. The Eric Hoffer Book Award is one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses. Fewer than five percent of nominated books are shortlisted for the grand prize. Uncommon Scents was also a finalist for the First Horizon Award, given to debut authors, and received an Honorable Mention in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category. Uncommon Scents was a finalist in the First Novel category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the largest International awards program for indie authors and independent publishers.

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Member Successes

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The following TVW members have pieces published in Las Positas College’s anthology, 2024 HAVIK: Linda Dratell for her poems “adapting to my life as an expat in españa,” “Deaf and Dealing with Bêtise at the Bistro,” and “Interlude Interrupted;” James Morehead for his poems “Two hundred and ten minutes later,” Twenty ways to start a poem about being bullied,” and “memories of a bullet” (1st Place); Rose Owens for her nonfiction article, “A Nag of a Different Color;” Abbey Lynne Raysfor her poems “Minnie Foster” and “Make It a Double;” and Monique Rardin Richardson for her three poems, “Beso Perfecto,” “Stardust,” and “Trust.”

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Linda Drattell has been busy. She presented in the Netherlands at the Stichting Plotz & Laat Doven Congres about writing as a tool for coping with hearing loss. Her two books, Remember This Day and Who Wants to be Friends With a Dragon? will be featured at a book signing/author showcase event at the ADARA conference this year. And she had a flash fiction story, “The Appointment” published by Loft Books and a poem, “In My Jewelry Box” published by Zoetic Press.

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