Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Writing Groups & Grants

  • Welcome News!

    Last night I got a call from the President of DWW. She had good news. Both pieces I’d sent into this years’ Spring Readings competition won prizes. We’re talking cash money;-) and I believe there’s also a free lunch involved. The poetry judge was Jill Elliott, managing editor of Poetry Northwest between 2006 and 2009. The poem…

  • Opportunity Knocks

    According to my horoscope, this Saturday will be my luckiest day of the year. I can’t imagine how. I have a ton of schoolwork–tests and papers to grade, lectures to organize. Al will be away visiting his folks. So I’ll be home alone, buried in work. How is this lucky? In a perfectly ordinary way,…

  • Between the Sheets

    My local RWA chapter’s contest for unpublished romance novelists, Between the Sheets, has a February 14 deadline. We’re looking for entries, so check it out. Love scenes (despite the name of the contest no actual sex has to happen) are not my forte, so I didn’t think I’d enter this one, even though there are some great judges…

  • Being a Chair

    As in chairperson. I’m doing that for DWW‘s Spring Readings this year. I’ve never headed a committee before, so it’s a good experience. Nothing about it is really difficult or inscrutable–well, except sending press releases– but just like so many things, it takes time. Time is not something I have my hands full of lately. I am…

  • In a Good Way

    It’s only 9 a.m. and I’m already feeling really tired. Had a long meeting with DWW folks yesterday. Started at 2 and didn’t end until about 6. The meetings I have attended before were only about 2 hours. But I liked this one better, maybe because I am more familiar with everyone, so I felt…