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Milestones
Fall 2005     Publication by Bywards of "Dustfree," my first poetry chapbook.
Fall 2004     Winner of The John Newlove Poetry Award, announced at the
              Ottawa International Writer's Festival
Summer 2004   Publication in Bywords Quarterly Journal
April 2003    1st & 3rd Place	"The Joker is Wild" humour competition - prose category
                                Both stories published in The Grist Mill, Vol 12, 2004
Spring 2000   Winner (one of 25) of CBC Radio "Wakefield Steam Train Contest"

Do I believe that the Internet is the last resort for desperate writers? Perhaps. Sometimes. Maybe. Not really. I'm not sure what I think about it now. There was a time, and not long ago, that I figured the only way I'd ever see my writing in print (other than on my trusty Deskjet) was to post it on my Website.

This page used to be a gateway to those short stories and poems that I thought nobody in their right mind would even want to read, much less publish.

In 2002 I found an on-line writer's group called Gridders (a.k.a. Boot Camp). Led by a writer of some renown, Alex Keegan, the group is an excellent training ground for would-be word wielders. It wasn't easy having my stories skewered, seeing paragraphs that I stayed up all night to write kicked into hackneyed heaven along with ho-hum plots and trite themes. But I must have learned something because I've begun to have some luck - and so far I refuse to call it anything else.

My list of published accomplishments is still very short but it's a start. And if it's all right with you, I've removed access to my stories and poems for now. They need a lot of work. I can't imagine what I was thinking to have posted them in the first place.

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