It was a pleasure to judge this year’s AWR contest. It’s my second year representing Elwood Writers as one of the judges, and such an honour to read all the contributions. In two years, the quality of entries just keeps rising. Congratulations to editor D Ferrara on a short-list full of surprises and containing something for everyone. And congratulations to winning entrant, Ellen Hirning Schmidt.
Margaret is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer developing a memoir about the relationship she had with her father, a wounded veteran of the Second World War and prisoner of war in Germany.
Excerpts from her manuscript can be found in American Writers Review, Jewels of San Fedele and Clairitage Press. In 2013 she was awarded a scholarship to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, where she began her manuscript.
In 2015, she gained an MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, PA. She writes non-fiction, personal essay and the occasional short story.
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Congratulations once again on your role as judge for the AWR contest Margaret. I can’t wait to read the winning entries. I’m sure it was a tough decision!
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Congratulations once again on your role as judge for the AWR contest Margaret. I can’t wait to read the winning entries. I’m sure it was a tough decision!
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Thanks, Helen. The editor and I were pretty much in agreement on our selections. Such an interesting process.
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