From The Publisher's
Desk
Poetry, ramblings and
real life
by Shirley Whiting Allard
Happy Birthday Word
Catalyst!
With
this issue, Word Catalyst Magazine celebrates its first year
of online publishing. Congratulations to us!
Meanwhile, making selections for our first
anniversary chapbook has proven to be one of the most difficult
tasks I've ever undertaken. In a perfect world it would be possible
to include everyone who submitted throughout the year but my
budget says this is not a perfect world. If your work is included
it is because I personally, as the editor, feel that the quality
of work you submitted is worthy of further promotion. My choices
were based solely on material submitted to Word Catalyst.
Volume One • July, 2007
- July 2008
~ Editor's Choice Awards
~
Grand Prize
Overall Excellence
Briar's Patch
by Robert Cameron Hazelton
Poetry
The Six Pathways
by Harry Furness
Short Stories
One-tenth of a Dollar
by Bob Church
Creative Non-Fiction
Pain
by Jon Norland
Monthly Columns/Prose
The Great Outdoors
by Dan Beams
Congratulations!
We welcome your comments and
suggestions.
Thank you for reading Word Catalyst Magazine!
Shirley resides in New Hampshire
with her husband, Jim. She has two grown children and two young
grandchildren who are the light in her life. Shirley spent many
years in the newspaper business where she went from paste-up
artist to publisher and almost everything in between.
She is the founding publisher
of Word Catalyst.com and writes the blog Whispers
In The Wind.
Send Shirley a message either
directly
or using the Word Catalyst feedback form. For more from Shirley visit
the Word Catalyst archives or her
online home.
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