[IL-Talk] News of Writing Success

[moonriver at mchsi.com]

Congratulations.  Well deserved.  Pat

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From: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "David Meyer" <datemeyer at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2023 1:59:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IL-Talk] News of Writing Success

Nice going Bob. I knew you were a pretty good writer after having read
things you put in the Illinois Independent. Keep up the good work. Hopefully
you can earn a bit of mad money doing this.

-----Original Message-----
From: IL-Talk <il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of eileen Truschke via
IL-Talk
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2023 2:33 PM
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Cc: eileen Truschke <eileentruschke at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [IL-Talk] News of Writing Success

Hello Robert:

Congratulations on winning 1st place on your short story. That is worth
bragging about. 

> On Nov 3, 2023, at 2:18 PM, Robert Gardner via IL-Talk
<il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm posting this to the list knowing it's self-congratulatory, but I'm 
> going to do it anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> I think some of you know I've been interested in writing for some 
> time, mostly in the short story genre. I haven't been very active with 
> that in recent years, but now have had some success which I'd like to 
> share with other Federationists.
> 
> 
> 
> I was just notified by the magazine, Magnets and Ladders, that my 
> short story, "Seasons", has won 1st place in the Fall-Winter Short 
> Fiction contest for 2023-2024.
> 
> 
> 
> That was in addition to the news from Magnets and Ladders that my 
> story, "Decisions", won 1st place in the Spring-Summer Short Fiction 
> contest for 2021.
> 
> 
> 
> Obviously, I'd highly recommend you writers out there consider 
> submitting material to Magnets and Ladders. It is a venue for disabled 
> writers, and they have many other categories besides short fiction. 
> And besides their contests, you can submit material for normal publication
in their issues.
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Gardner
> 
> 
> 
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