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April 2009 Blog Posts (5)

April Blog Contest — Final Week

Visit http://wordforwords.blogspot.com for a final prompt from writer Jamie Cat Callan, author of French Women Don't Sleep Alone. For a chance to win The Writer's Toolbox, send your entry to wordforwords@sbcglobal.net.

Feel free to pass this along to your writers’… Continue

Added by Adele Annesi on April 29, 2009 at 9:58am — No Comments

Connie-Magnan Albrizio Wins the 2009 CT Press Club Communcations Contest

It is my great honor to announce that Connie-Magnan Albrizio (my mother) won the 2009 CT Press Club Communcations Contest for her first book of poetry, Lion's Tooth. This compilation is a lifetime in the making. A well-deserved tribute to Connie, who turns 77 next month, for her life-long dedication to the written word!

Congratulations Mom!!

Eileen Albrizio

Added by Eileen Albrizio on April 22, 2009 at 5:58pm — No Comments

April Blog Contest — "The Writer's Toolbox"

Visit wordforwords.blogspot.com with renowned writer Jamie Cat Callan, author of French Women Don't Sleep Alone, and respond to the prompt by sending your entry to wordforwords@sbcglobal.net.

Or respond to Jamie's prompt by writing 500 words:

We were drinking champagne and losing our shirts.

After the contest closes, we'll announce the winner and post the entry on the blog. The winner will receive The Writer's Toolbox.

Added by Adele Annesi on April 15, 2009 at 12:32pm — No Comments

The Ever-Fading Passion for Poetry and Short Fiction

Why is it when I tell people I write poetry and short fiction they look at me like I told them their kids are ugly? I was weaned on poetry and short fiction. Those were the genres of choice for most everyone I knew all the years I was growing up. I understand the delight in delving into a long, well-crafted and multi-layered novel, but what about those times when you just want to escape for a single moment in time; take a short jaunt through the fantasy world of fiction before you have to… Continue

Added by Eileen Albrizio on April 8, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Recent News, and Two Reviews

In the 1960s(?), Harry Belafonte sang a nonsensical little ditty called (I think) “Man Piaba, Woman Piaba”. Or possibly it was a wry commentary on life and actually made a lot of sense, but I was a typical male teenager and too stupid to realize it at the time. One of the lines recently came to mind (funny how long-term memory works): “… your Rorschach shows you’re a Peripatetic…”.

Sometimes I think my daughter (and co-author) Leanne and I are student Peripatetics, itinerant… Continue

Added by Denning Powell on April 3, 2009 at 7:42pm — No Comments

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