My new poem “Rainbow Blond” was awarded second place in the People’s Choice Poetry Category in the 2024 Annual Writers Competition at the 46th Annual Conference of West Virginia Writers, Inc.
The People’s Choice Awards gives writers the opportunity to read their fiction, nonfiction, or poetry aloud. Each reader is allowed to read for four minutes. After the readings, ballots are distributed, and each attendee (reader or listener) votes for first, second, and third places. Winners are recognized at the Saturday evening Awards Banquet.
I am grateful to my fellow writers for awarding me second place.
Barbara Marie Minney is a transgender woman, award-winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. She is a retired attorney and a seventh generation Appalachian. Now based in Tallmadge, Ohio, her first collection of poetry entitled “If There’s No Heaven” was the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and an Akron Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Book of 2020. Barbara is also the author of the "Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge (2021)," "Dance Naked with God (2023)," and "A Woman in Progress (2024)." Follow her at www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com.
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