At the Writers in Paradise Conference I won an honorable mention. This meant that I would receive a "notation" in the upcoming Sabal, a journal with all the "best of" pieces from the conference.
I wasn't quite sure what that meant, but today my copy arrived. It is fun to read everyone's pieces since during the conference you don't have access to any of the other workshops' writings. And I got to reread "Itch" by Lorin Oberweger from my own group. It is just so good.
And here's my "notation" by Thisbe Nissen (our workshop leader). "Ambitious in voice, scope and power, Sandra Lambert's novel immerses us in a world so rich with detail that reading is a visceral experience."
Just to balance things out, in the same trip to the mailbox, I received a rejection from a journal that said my submission to them "lacked momentum." Ahhh, the writer's life.





