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Recognitions

N'omi Rose

T-Zero Xpandizine is proud to announce these WVU members who have gained recognition in their writing achievements.

Kudos to Arlene Lawson whose poem, "Leaving Stalag 17." (concerning her husband's dementia.) was chosen by The Journal of the American Medical Association! She does not know the publishing date. This will be her first "Paper" published work! Plus, Arlene's poems "Nobody Called Her By Name," and "Sentinels." have also been selected to publish on Ric Masten's, "My Cup of Tea," Her poems have also been published in Writer's Choice, who is now "Rose and Thorn." Unfortunately, they do not carry the back issues from when they were "A Writer's Choice." :-( Hrrump! When I asked her for information for this column, she offered "Do you want a list of my rejection slips instead?" LOL! Arlene is a member of the staff at Writer's Village University, and a member of Senior's poetry group. She is currently peer-tutoring The Pleasures of Reading Poetry and hangs out in Word Weavers study group.

Kudos to B.J. Apostol, whose article was published in San Diego's Computer Edge magazine. B.J. is a single mother working as a webmaster/graphics designer in San Diego, California. When not writing, her time is spent breeding and showing Bull Terriers and Miniature Bull Terriers in both conformation and obedience. BJ is currently at work on a horror novel. She has been a WVU member since November 1999.

Kudos to Cindi Borris who just celebrated her one-year anniversary on the Suite December 5! "The best way to describe how WVU touched me is to read I'm Not Broken on the Suite." For years she was haunted by "Are you a writer?"
"If you just write like you talk you're a sale."
"What? But you're just like Erma!"
She ran from this for a long time until one day her kids urged her to enter a Chicken Soup for the Soul contest. She accepted the challenge and the rest is history.
"As I chose to open the gift of creating portraits with words I realized it was layered. As I lifted the layers, I discovered I also was given the gift of humor — a two-fold awakening. Who was I to be so selfish to keep the laughs to myself?
"By a fluke, I was browsing the net and stumbled into WVU. I feel now I was meant to find you. I was an embryo in the trade of writing. I learned my structure, POVs, revisited grammar, and stepped to the plate a player." She started posting short stories and articles on Themestream, WrittenbyMe, Authors Den and other venues. The feedback and the opportunity to explore my creativity helped me discover my voice.
"The feedback from WVU members and external readers reinforced I was on the right road: non-fiction humor. The friendship embraced on WVU is supportive, honest and priceless." Cindi facilitates Story Structure 126 and moderate Creative Energy Unlimited.
"WVU? It was the catalyst of my becoming me. "

Kudos to Kathy Tallo, whose story "Of Remembered Cornfields, Being a Short History of Our Farm and the Search for Danny." won Futures magazine (www.firetowrite.com) First Prize of $350! Her story was submitted to their annual Fire to Fly Contest for 2001 and will be published in Futures magazine Feb/Mar edition. Kathy is an active member in the Mystery Writer's study group and has taken numerous courses throughout her first year at WVU. "It's been a wonderful resource for me as a beginning writer."

Kudos to Glennis whose poem "It's Only A Vacant Lot" were chosen by Collective Consciousness; the Bimonthly Journal of the Writers' Collective to be published in their November/December, 2001. They have published in other editions her poems: "Foster Daughter, Snow Quilts." Plus, Her poems "Song of Solitude" and "Spell of the Stack", "Old Man" was also published in Between Beaver and Athapap: a Northern Anthology, an anthology published by the Flin Flon Writers Guild. Another poem, "Eulogy To Yesterday," was chosen by Pulse literary journal http://www.heartsoundspress.com/eulogyyesterdayhobbs.htm.
"Since joining WVU, poetry has become a major part of my life and I've gone from part time writer to full time poet-writer. I've met a wonderful group of poets and writers at WVU and found a tremendous creative environment has helped me hone my poetic skills and sharpened my critiquing skills. I've learned to tackle poetic challenges that I'd dreamed of attempting. WVU has given me the encouragement to undertake new experiences such as facilitating and helping to develop new poetry courses and submit work for publication." Glennis's poetry web site is called: Glennis' Poetry Inglenook. She also maintains two writing web pages The Poetry Inglenook
as well as Writers' Resources on the Web. She also maintains the web page for the Flin Flon Writers Guild , of which she is currently secretary. Glennis is currently a co-facilitator for and member of the Senior Poets' Workshop and a co-facilitator for Poetry 111 and Poetry 113. She has been a member of WVU since 1997.

Kudos to Laura Drewry whose historical romance novel, El Cielo, is due out August 19, 2002. It is a western-type, set in the early 1870's Montana Territory. NovelBooks Inc, www.NovelBooksinc.com, is going to be publishing it in both electronic format and trade paperback. Laura joined WVU in July, 2001 after staring at the website for over a year. "Honestly, it was the absolute best thing I ever did for my writing. Everyone — and I mean everyone, from the support techs to the other members — have been unbelievably supportive and helpful to me." Laura hangs out in Historical Romance Study group.

Kudos to Les Combs! His short story, "Harry," won first place in a recent contest sponsored by the American Pen Women Pioneer Chapter of Little Rock, AR.
"Fame and fortune! Both are relative, and I get mine in small doses... This was a significant milestone for me, being the very first blue ribbon my writing has produced."
Les is starting on his third year at WVU! "The camaraderie and generous help from WVU staff and CEU members has made a difference in my writing."

Kudos to Zoe Farris whose story "The Hidden Library" just won Certificate of Commendation, Judges Award for Work of Merit. In the Section 1 Short Story - Fact or Fiction Gold Coast Writer's Association, Inc. (Australia) 2001 Literary Competition.
"This is a rewrite of a short story I wrote as part of the Writopia Competition in 1998 when I joined the WVU in the six week free course, which I did twice before joining the WVU proper. The original story was chosen as a finalist for the Writopia contest of that year. The title was changed, and all references to Writopia where removed for copyright purposes. " Zoe hangs out around campus and can be found in our Tomorrow chat!

Kudos to our WVU writers, Arlene, B.J, Cindi , Glennis, Kathy, Laura , Les, and Zoe for their impressive accomplishments, and best wishes for many more successes!

Thank you!
N'omi Rose
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