Tag: contests
Beautiful Sentences: A Different Kind of American Idol Contest
About 200 people visit this website each week–not a great crowd, but one that is slowly growing. Each time I log in to the dashboard to begin writing another post, I get another set of statistics that informs me which post is most popular and what search terms people are using that brings my blog [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2009 under Personal Reflections, Writing Tips.
Tags: American idol, beautiful sentences, contests, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
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Contests, Gilchrist, and a Poem: Mini-Memoir
Without the Kalamazoo Gazette Literary Award Competition of 2007, I would not be writing this blog. Each year the announcement of the award kicks me into gear again, and I review what I have written that might fit. The writing itself happens throughout the year, often in 2-3 day retreats at Gilchrist, the Fetzer Institute [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2009 under Personal Reflections, Tips, Writing Tips.
Tags: contests, Gilchrist, mini-memoir, poem
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Contests and Memoir
I have always enjoyed biography, autobiography, and the personal essay, but my study of memoir as a subject is only two years old. It started when I saw a 2007 literary contest announcement in the local newspaper, The Kalamazoo Gazette. The three categories were poetry, short story and memoir. That choice was easy, since my [...]
Posted: October 12th, 2008 under Personal Reflections.
Tags: contests, Kalamazoo Gazette, memoir, mother, wisdom
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