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Tag: Ace Baker
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Putting myself out there…writing goals for Oct 2014 to Oct 2015!
Ok, a bit of a heart to heart post today, from one writer to another. Yesterday, I wrote about the benefits of journaling and setting writing goals. Today, I’ll show you what I mean by that. Here are my writing goals for my upcoming writing year: 1. Find a GOOD agent. 2. Write a new…
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SUMMER OF BLADES is one of three finalists in a novel contest!
OK, SUPER EXCITING NEWS! My novel, a YA Medieval Fantasy, Summer of Blades, is one of three finalists in a contest put on by Grasmere Publishing. The winner gets his or her novel published. In other words, I am literally two books away from fulfilling a dream–having a novel in print! It gets…
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Update on “Big Red Schoolhouse” . . . Judges’ comments!
Ok, so here are the lovely words the judges had to say about “Big Red Schoolhouse,” my poem that won the inaugural Magpie Poetry Award: Magpie Award Winner ‘Big Red Schoolhouse’ by Ace Baker “The poem in 1st place, ‘Big Red Schoolhouse, keeps us up to our elbows in the muck of the moment and the…
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“BIG RED SCHOOLHOUSE” wins MAGPIE POETRY AWARD!
Ok, I am THRILLED to announce that my poem, “Big Red Schoolhouse,” was the winner of the inaugural Magpie Poetry Award by PULP LITERATURE, whose contest’s final judges were the amazing Daniel Cowper and past Poet Laureate of Vancouver, George McWhirter. This poem is special to me because I wrote it because of Patrick and…
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Writer’s Digest Contest Update: I moved up to sixth place now…don’t know why!
Ok, I got an e-mail from Writer’s Digest today saying that my literary short story is now 6th, not 7th place (although the prizes remain exactly the same…sigh…). No explanation of WHY, but I’m moving up in the world…
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Ace Made the Quarter-finals in the Casey Shay Poetry Chapbook Contest!
Ok, nail-biting time all over again! My chapbook of poetry, Kaleidoscope: Bright Lives, Broken, made the quarter-finals in this year’s Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Contest. That’s exciting, but that’s just round one. We’ve been narrowed down to about 160, and the semi-finals will cut that number drastically, down to about 30. Fingers crossed…
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Poetry Week #002: Writing the Cascade Poem
THE CASCADE First, in order for me to discuss what a cascade poem is, let me show you one. “Woman on a Swing: Lions Park” is one of three poems that helped me win the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) poetry prize in 2012. It’s one I quickly showed poet Patricia Young over dinner…
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Poetry Week #001: Poem within a poem!
Time for some poetry! A poem can contain a great amount of meaning in a small space; it’s what separates us from the rest of the animals, someone once told me. And while I enjoy spoken word poetry, especially when it’s well done, there are some things you can do on a piece of…