Annette Birdsall

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Congrats to the 2025 Ann Whitford Paul contest test winners!

The winners for the 2025 award are:

Leslie Ross-Degnan for Little Crow, is the winner for fiction.

Andrea Christoff is the winner for A Caring Light, for non-fiction.

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And congratulations to you too!
On your poem also being included in the Stirring Words issue.

I am so excited. My poem, “Barn Owl” has been selected for Little Thoughts Press, Issue 11: Stirring Words.
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And here is a shout out to Rebecca Gardyn Levington for her April 2025 newsletter suggesting places to submit poetry!
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Thanks, Jocelyn! Your post cracked me up. I feel as if my entire zombie manuscript is now just strewn bloody body parts after trying to reanimate all week! Thanks for your well wishes for our “Frankenstein-manuscripts!

I keep throwing my hat, just wish it wasn’t a boomerang…

So hard to kill my darlings! But I will try. Thanks for the six tips!

So many great tips - I am going to play what if? today!

My poetry champions are living their poetic lives. Thank you!

Love this! And you remind of April Halprin Wayland saying, “There’s always room for one more.”

Spring Fling Writing Contest

Last day to enter the Spring Fling Writing Contest!

Thank you to Kaitlyn Ciara and and all the generous prize donors!
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Congratulations!

Just one?! I love some old favorites: Barn Dance by Bill Martin Jr., color dance by Ann Jonas, and Dance Tanya by Patricia Lee Gauch…

So many! Let's start with Meg Sodano for non-fiction and Pete Oswald.