I received word yesterday that my manuscript was one of 20 finalists for the Wick Poetry Center First Book Prize. It's the second contest I've entered it into and the first contest in which it reached the final judge.
Wick is great. So wonderful, so kind. They gave me a plant when I did a reading. Stick with it. You can say it one more time, what you don't like. Let me hear it one more time, then...
Hey, congrats - turns out I'm in very good company :)
ReplyDeleteHey that's excellent! I've never reached the final judge. Grumble...
ReplyDeleteYou deserve it, Charlie.
Send it to me Charlie. I want to read it.
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteso close, so close! just to make it there is pretty flippin' awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteWick is great. So wonderful, so kind. They gave me a plant when I did a reading. Stick with it. You can say it one more time, what you don't like. Let me hear it one more time, then...
ReplyDeletecongrats.
ReplyDeleteI knew Robert Wick at Kent State years ago. he & his brother startd the whole thing in memory of their sons. Bob is a sculptor & lives in Arizona now.
Charles: Very good news. You are knockin' on the door!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Charlie! Soon, soon ...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely< a good portent!! Congratulations and hang in there . . . just a matter of time.
ReplyDeleteCongrats. Fingers crossed. Etc.
ReplyDeleteGreat news, Charles. I'm happy to hear it!
ReplyDeleteAlison
Yay! A very good sign!
ReplyDeleteHoly mother! Congrats, Charliebird. And that on the heels of the chapbook's first (and second, and third) place.
ReplyDeleteI bow to your awesomeness!
ReplyDeleteCongrats!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeleteLDC <---has faith in good poetry, fooey on foetry!
Last night I dreamt we did a reading together, we both wore the same glasses. I can feel the book Charlie, it is there. So very proud of you.
ReplyDeleteYou're a star! Congratulations! :-)
ReplyDeletethat is super cool.
ReplyDeletehowever.
whats with horseshoe guy?
"Close only counts in horseshoes, bombs, and handgrenades."
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