DANG, I Wish I Hadn't Done That: And Other Senior Moments from the Ageless Authors Writing Contest
- ISBN-10
- 0578563657
- ISBN-13
- 9780578563657
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-10
- Publisher
- Ageless Authors Anthology
- Authors
- Geoffrey K. Graves, Hugh Gardner
Description
DANG, I Wish I Hadn't Done That and other senior moments from the Ageless Authors Writing Contest is a powerful collection of 34 stories and poems by senior writers age 65 and older from the international writing group's 2018 competition.Readers are treated to a wide-ranging array of works from highly experienced professional writers as well as those who forged careers in education, law, medicine, sales and many other types of jobs before returning to the craft in retirement. The categories in that contest were Military Memories; Parents, For Better or Worse; and DANG, I Wish I Hadn't Done That (regrets)."We received more than 350 submissions from senior writers throughout the English-speaking world," says Larry Upshaw, Executive Director of Ageless Authors, based in Dallas, Texas. "The competition in this contest was fierce. The work shows an incredible breadth of experience by some very creative, mature people."A cadre of outstanding judges awarded cash prizes, honorable mentions and the title of "recognized" to works in all three and selected them for the anthology. The winners included the powerful coming-of-age tale Moon of the Popping Trees by Hugh Gardner, a journalist and fishing writer with bylines in Esquire, Harper's, Rolling Stone and Playboy. Gardner, who lives outside Denver, Colorado, also captured the Bivona Prize for best overall effort in the contest.Geoffrey Graves of Laguna Beach, California, who formerly worked in advertising and television, penned The Klutzwit Gene, an ode to family quirkiness. Leah Rae Lake of Austin, Texas, a writer and crafts expert, entered her stunning portrait of a woman on the run from violence, Refugee. Ageless Authors is an international group dedicated to the encouragement and promotion of senior writers through writing contests, publishing the outstanding entries and helping seniors publish their own books. To learn more about the group's activities, visit agelessauthors.com.
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