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Posted by jublke on 02-04-2012 at 03:11:
I won an award!
I'm so excited! I won the Dwarf Stars Award this year from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. It's an annual award given for the best super short speculative poetry from the previous year. 
http://www.sfpoetry.com/ds/11dwarfstars.html
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 02-04-2012 at 03:17:
That's awesome! I'm so happy for you! 
Congratulations!!!! 
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Posted by ChrisW on 02-04-2012 at 03:31:
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Posted by KT1972 on 02-04-2012 at 08:14:
Congratulations! You must be thrilled indeed!
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Posted by Cep on 02-04-2012 at 09:12:
Well done! 
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Posted by Madilayn on 02-04-2012 at 10:15:
Awesome!! Congratulations and well done!!! Always great to hear one of us winning an award!
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Posted by Springie on 02-04-2012 at 10:49:
That's fabulous! Congratulations!!
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Posted by Daniella T on 02-04-2012 at 12:55:
The Gatchamania crowd wins again!
Many congratulations! 
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Posted by RIgirl on 02-04-2012 at 13:32:
That's awesome! Congratulations!
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 02-04-2012 at 14:19:
Way to go! I'm so happy for you 
(and, truth be told, a little jealous!)
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Posted by jublke on 02-04-2012 at 19:21:
Thanks, everyone! EW, I saw that you had sci fi poetry published recently. Congrats! It's nice to know another sci fi poet - although other than scifaiku, I haven't written much sci fi poetry. I didn't have much luck with publishing poetry until I stumbled into short forms - scifaiku, haiku, tanka, Fibonacci sequences. Then I finally found where I fit. After a 20+ year drought, I started getting acceptances and my writer's block fell away. As for this poem - it was rejected by one editor before another one picked it up. So, persistence pays off, too. 
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Posted by Becky Rock on 02-04-2012 at 22:56:
The best works get rejected by someone first. Persistance is what counts. It's wonderful you found your nitch.
Congrats!!!!!!!
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Posted by lborgia88 on 05-04-2012 at 01:12:
Congratulations, Julie! 
Posted by clouddancer on 09-04-2012 at 00:48:
I am a little late, but congratulations Julie !!
It is always an honour to know we have award winners and published authors and artist among us.
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Posted by jublke on 09-04-2012 at 02:26:
Clouddancer - I am consistently impressed by the quality of writing I've seen across the Gatch fandom. And some of the art (not mine!) is downright amazing. We are a lucky bunch.
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Posted by clouddancer on 09-04-2012 at 14:31:
Julie, after visiting other sites and reading stories in other fandoms, I too am impressed by the quality of work I see and read.
As I have seen others wonder - does it have something to do with our average age - which appears to be much older - than many other fandoms? And is it also because we know how to give critical reviews without being hurtful, and able to accept those reviews without feeling like we are being attacked? Again, something I hear happening in many other fandoms.
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