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At an awards banquet during MidSouthCon 26, the 2008 Darrell Award winners were announced. Jackie had two stories as finalists in the short story category, but there was a charmingly stunned look on her face as the winner was revealed. The room erupted in shouts and applause as it was announced, "The winner of the 2008 Darrell Award for short story is Jackie Gamber, author of 'The Monster'." The Darrell Awards are memorial awards given annually in the categories of short story, novella, and novel to promote literary science fiction and fantasy in the southeastern part of the U.S. A special thanks to the jury, the readers, and MidSouthCon for hosting the banquet. Check back here to see when Jackie's feet touch the ground again. |
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 Jackie's short story, "Hidden: the Lost Works of Dernell Hall", appearing in Issue 263 of Bewildering Stories, has been selected as an Editors' Choice in their fourth quarterly review for 2007. From the Bewildering Stories website, "The editors’ choices are the result of an extensive but always enjoyable process. The review editors have long been distinguished in Internet publishing for their prompt and outstanding work in evaluating and proofreading submissions and in making the selections for the Quarterly Reviews. As always, the discussions have been lively and insightful."
Congratulations, Jackie!
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Jackie was selected as a finalist in the Fourth Annual International Ultra-Short Contest sponsored by The Binnacle. Entries were received from over 600 writers in sixteen countries covering six continents. The Binnacle is the Literary and Arts Magazine for the University of Maine at Machias.
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As of November 1, 2007, I will plunge with my writing pen into the uncharted depths of a new novel: Kingdom of Serenity Gardens. Will it be suspenseful? Yes, for me. Will it have romance? Definitely. Will it usher me into a new era of respect and a guest appearance on Masterpiece Theatre? Ah...no. Probably not. After all, I've only got 30 days of frantic typing to reach "the end".
November is National Novel Writing Month! Thousands of creative people all over the continent will be joining me in this wacky, somewhat mad adventure. My kids are doing it again. My friends are doing it again. You can do it, too.
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The following video was produced by Jenny, one of the Memphis ML's for NaNoWriMo. It will give you a glimpse into our fun to writing ratio!
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Current Writing Project
Novella: Time travel;
alternative history.
Est. word count = 40,000
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