The Villages, FL. – July
9, 2012 – Creative Writer’s Notebook announces the winning writers and
honorable mention honorees of the 2011 Short Story Competition.
Patricia Crandall was named an Honorable Mention Honoree
in the annual short story competition for her story “The Crazy Jug.”
The Crazy Jug: Gertrude
Carver , a retired schoolteacher and Nina Westacott , a homemaker, delight in
bottle mining activities. When a shy, reclusive farmer invites them to dig
specimens in the ancestral dump, he soon becomes as enthralled in digging for
old bottles and glass as they are. In a rare, generous gesture, Cyrus Gilhooley
presents Gert with a unique jug found in an old barn on his property. Why does
he change his mind and demand that Gert return the Crazy Jug? Join Gert and
Nina in their warm and humorous escapades.
I am pleased to have been
an Honorable Mention Honoree in Creative Writer’s Notebook for the past three
years. As well as this year’s honor, my short stories, Pink Victorian Lady and
Frogs, Gnomes, Hikers and Bottle Miners, have been published in these
entertaining anthologies in 2009 and 2010
I have published numerous articles and
short stories in various magazines and newspapers. I have four books in print, Melrose, Then And Now, a
historical volume, I Passed
This Way, a poetry
collection, The Dog Men, a
thriller, and Tales of an
Upstate New York Bottle Miner, non-fiction. I live with my husband, Art ,
at Babcock Lake in the Grafton Mountains near Petersburgh , New York . Visit me
at authorpcrandall.blogspot.com
“We are pleased with the
quality of short stories in this year’s competition,” said Dr. Mary Lois Sanders, publisher and managing editor
of Creative Writer’s Notebook,
which sponsors the annual contest. “Journeys
V, to be published later this year, will showcase these stories from the
creative minds of talented writers.”
Creative Writer’s Notebook is a monthly, national,
subscription-supported publication that provides industry information and news
to help writers at all levels improve their skills and their opportunities for
publication. The 2012 competition has begun and all writers are invited to
enter. For guidelines, contact Mary Lois Sanders, at mary.lois.sanders@att.net.
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