[stylist] 2010 contest- not happened yet! My miss keying

Tue Apr 20 02:42:01 UTC 2010

Division Members and STYLIST members 

Sorry for the mistake in my post to the list and to members. the 2010
contest has not been fully judged yet and I meant to have written 2009
winner, for Chris Kuell. 

Thank you (Gee, that sure got some people's attention!) 

Respectfully 
Robert Leslie Newman
President NFB Writers' division 
Writers' Division Website-
http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
Personal Website- 
http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Neil Butters
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 12:49 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] April Writers' Division telephone gathering

Hello All,

I would like to join the Sunday night telephone meetings. Is the phone
number toll free? If so, does it include Canada?

I also have a suggestion: It might be advantageous to send the writing
sample up for discussion to this list before Sunday. That would allow us to
read and re-read it and possibly analyze it more effectively. And, at least
for me, reading something over the phone is awkward; I cannot read it myself
and would need to reiterate what JAWS says, or use JAWS to read it, which
can be difficult to understand over the hphone.

Have the winners of the 2010 writing contest been announced somewhere? Have
the winners been notified? I ask because I thought the winners were
announced in July, but Chris has apparently taken first.

Neil

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From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:06 PM
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [stylist] April Writers' Division telephone gathering

> RE: the Writers' Division will host its monthly telephone gathering 
> for April on Sunday, the 25th (This is the last Sunday of the month.)
>
>
>
> --this months gathering will feature two special events- First, is a 
> opportunity to meet and talk with an editor of an on-line magazine 
> called "Breath and Shadow." this is a magazine created by the disabled 
> and seeks disabled authors and pays for submissions. The editor, Chris 
> Kuell is a member of the NFB Writers' Division and I have finally 
> lined Chris up to come on a monthly gathering and to specifically talk 
> to us and to answer our questions about "Breath and Shadow" and about 
> himself. Chris is a great writer of short stories, and I'm sure of 
> other forms of writings, too. You can see some of Chris's stories in 
> Slate and Style; Chris Tooke first place in the 2010 Division writing 
> contest and second in 2009. immediately below is his bio-
>
>
>
> Biography
>
>
>
> Chris Kuell is a blind writer and advocate living in Western Connecticut. 
> A
> former research chemist, he lost his sight at thirty-five as a result 
> of diabetic retinopathy. A few years later, he learned how to use a 
> computer with speech output and turned his efforts to writing. He's 
> had more than two dozen articles about blindness published, and His 
> fiction has appeared in Spillway Review, The Sun, Breath and Shadow, 
> Apollo's Lyre, Gambit, Mountain Echoes, Decomposition, Bewildering 
> Stories, and Dialogue. He was an editor and contributed to the 
> anthology, Mountain Voices: Illuminating the Character of West 
> Virginia, as well as having a short story in, Northern
> Haunts: Terrifying Tales From New England. He is currently seeking an 
> agent/publisher for Disconnected, a novel about how Alzheimer's 
> disease affects a family and tests the bonds of love. He is also hard 
> at work on his second novel, Rub It In, a novel about a blind massage 
> therapist caught in a thorny love triangle.
>
>
>
> In January of 2008, he took over as Editor in Chief at Breath and 
> Shadow, the only paying literary journal written and edited 
> exclusively by people with disabilities.
>
>
>
> --Our second feature of the evening is an opportunity for any member 
> to present, read a short example of their writing. This would be for 
> the purpose is an opportunity to get some on the spot, constructive
feedback.
> This was suggested during last months gathering. this can be any type 
> of writing that you would wish to present.
>
>
>
> --The time for the gathering is- 8:30 PM Eastern; 7:30 PM Central; 
> 6:30 PM Mountain; 5:30 PM Pacific.
>
>
>
> --The phone number to call is- 218-339-4300
>
>
>
> --the code is: 568839# (last character is a number sign)
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
> President NFB Writers' division
> Writers' Division Website-
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org 
> <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>
> Personal Website-
> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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