Hey everyone,
I have really good news! In this year’s Illinois Woman’s Press Association Mate E. Palmer Professional Communications Contest, I placed fourteen entries in twelve categories, including First Place in five categories!
I’m really proud of the work I did on my writing last year, and it feels great to be so richly rewarded.
Links to the articles are below!
First Place winners
Arts and entertainment articles: My Top 10 Favorite ’90s Country Music Hits
Social issues articles: The Most Important Book I’m Reading for Black History Month
Reviews: Self-Deprecating Nonchalance: ‘Prine on Prine’
Editorial/Opinion: OPINION: On Tyler Childers and Queer Tragedy
Headlines: A Queer (Be)longing, September News to Use to Beat the Blues, Half the Everything That He Didn’t Have to Be, A Lost Revolution?
Second Place winners
Personal essay: How “Live Like You Were Dying” Changed My Life as a Gay Man
Blog- Personal: A Queer (Be)longing
Third Place winners
Speech: Recovering Music Snob
Columns- Personal Opinion: The 10 Books I Read in 2023 That Impacted Me the Most
Honorable Mention winners
Arts and entertainment articles: 10 Best Contemporary Books That Blend Music and Personal Narrative
Feature Articles- Online: A Lost Revolution? 35 Years of ‘Tracy Chapman’
Personal Essay: The Best Advice I Ever Got
Electronic Newsletter- Personal: 5 Unusual Items of Gratitude for February
Columns- Informational: Matthew Perry, Addictions, and Self-Care