You really couldn’t ask for a more perfect conference. Exceptional writers were found every which way you wandered, the weather was beautiful, and we introduced a shockingly new “Take an Agent Home” session that just might have to become a fixture. Most uncanny? The awesome guy pictured below we discovered in the Hyatt’s sculpture garden, located just down from the bar where such discoveries are often posited, pondered and parlayed each evening. We prefer to think of it as a writer carrying the weight of a writer, or the writer’s responsibility, or some such. That may have changed by dawn.
Anyhow, on to the awards.
The SCWC*LA 11 Award Recipients
OUTSTANDING NONFICTION (Memoir)
Gloria O’Brien
from Sylmar, CA
OUTSTANDING NONFICTION (Memoir)
Christine Magnus Moore
from Silverado, CA
OUTSTANDING FICTION (Historical)
Sandra Montanino
from Provo, UT
OUTSTANDING FICTION (International Thriller)
Gary Parker
from Apple Valley, CA
OUTSTANDING TOPIC STORY
Stephanie Lewis for English Language Gone Astray (read here)
from Carlsbad, CA
Congratulations, all!
We’ll be back in Newport Beach next September. Thanks to our special guest speakers, Leslie Lehr, Marci Nault, Brett Battles, Sheri Fink, and Elana K. Arnold. Big shout out to all our SCWC workshop leaders, advance submission readers and hard working volunteers. And above all else, a robust and especially big spoon to all the conferees who entrusted us with their work and aspirations this past weekend. It is the SCWC’s honor to be a part of your community.
San Diego 28 is only five months away. We look forward to seeing you there. In the meantime, settle for exceptional, go forth, write well and suck less. More t-shirts are coming!
