<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Robert, </div><div dir="ltr">Congrats, that must feel great! </div><div dir="ltr">I hope you can continue to andblish some more short stories! </div><div dir="ltr">Vejas </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 7, 2023, at 09:03, Robert Gardner via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I’m posting this to the list knowing it’s self-congratulatory, but I’m going to do it anyway. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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 you. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I was just notified by the magazine, Magnets and Ladders, that my short story, “Seasons”, has won 1<sup>st</sup> place in the Fall-Winter Short Fiction contest for 2023-2024. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">That was in addition to the past news from Magnets and Ladders that my story, “Decisions”, won 1<sup>st</sup> place in the Spring-Summer Short Fiction contest for 2021. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Obviously, I’d highly recommend you 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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Robert Gardner<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Writers Division web site</span><br><span>http://writers.nfb.org/</span><br><span>Stylist mailing list</span><br><span>Stylist@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Stylist:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/alpineimagination%40gmail.com</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>