Our critique group gave ourselves a challenge to write a story based on an object and a place. We gave ourselves a year and planned to read the stories at our December meeting. As the deadline approached, Julie Royce found herself enmeshed in a story that would not behave itself. She wrote the following poem …
Stacey Gustafson has a column on Pleasanton Patch. Enjoy her humorous writing
Jackie Bardsley and Alice Kight will both be featured in the Ina Coolbrith 2011 anthology to be published in November. Bardsley’s “The Seduction” and Kight’s “Tomorrow’s Roses” will appear in the anthology named for California’s first poet laureate (1915).
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 countdown. The sparkling ball drops in Times Square and revelers celebrate the new year. Morning light of the first day demands action for writers. Will it be the first words in a new journal? A soul-stirring winter poem? A revision of a short story that becomes an award-winning anthology entry?
Alice Kight stepped into the winners circle for Too Early haiku contest Monday, October 4, 2010. Marilyn Slade and Violet Carr Moore were runners-up. Read Alice’s poetry in online and printed editions of Contra Costa Valley Times and Tri-Valley Herald. View Marilyn and Vi’s submissions in Bay Area News Group online at http://www.insidebayarea.com.
Alice Kight is a winner in Bay Area News Groups Cinquains don’t sink our scribes contest. Look for her gardening cinquain poem in the August 2, 2010, Time Out section of printed and online editions. Entries from runners-up Chris Alesso and Marilyn Slade are in online editions.
Changes and Summer Sky, two poems by LaDonna Fehlberg were published in the 2010 Las Positas College Anthology along with her photograph Lilies Among the Rocks. This is LaDonna’s fifth year to be included in the anthology. During those years, her photography Destiny placed first and Tension placed third in the art category.
Marilyn Slade is a winner in the Bay Area News Rabbit Haiku contest. Her poem appeared in printed editions of the Contra Costa Times, Tri-Valley Herald and other affiliated newspapers. Marilyn’s poetry is available online at http://www.insidebayarea.com/.
Violet Carr Moore is a winner in the Autumnal Haiku contest sponsored by Bay Area News Group. Her haiku appeared in all October 5 printed editions and in the Inside Bay Area online edition.
