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BARBARA BLANKS
aka StFlossie
 

  writer, poet, rubberstamper


AUTHOR OF THE MONTH for WRITERS' GUILD OF TEXAS
December 2008 and June 2009
 
Barbara Blanks, poet and writer

Since her sun is now heading for the western horizon, Barbara Blanks says she’s blooming as fast as she can.  In less than a year she’s had two book signings, and won two first place awards in the Poetry Society of Texas annual contest, plus she placed in several categories.  As a result of that, she was not only a WGT guest speaker in April, but her winning poems and a book review/article were featured in the May/June issue of The Senior Voice. (http://www.theseniorvoice.com/pdffiles/0956SV.pdf
 
As a result of that, she was asked to speak (on July 29) at The Point, Center for Arts & Education, at CC Young in Dallas.  

 Some of those events led her to being nominated and elected as a Director on the board of the PST.  She was also asked to step in as Librarian after the post was vacated.  She was recently elected Recording Secretary for the local Garland chapter of the PST.

And on the basis of three humorous filler pieces sent to RubberStampMadness, a national stamping magazine she’s been subscribing to for twenty years, Barbara was offered assignment work.  Her first article appeared in their Fall 2009 issue, and her second assignment is slated for the 2009/2010 Holiday issue.

Barbara's story, "A Bird Too Bizarre," appeared in the July 2009, 7th Anniversary issue of  Beyond Centauri, a Sam's Dot publication.  She is also pleased about 35 books sold to the New Jersey Book Agency for re-sale--and puzzled as to how they learned about her book.  But she says, “When Serendipity slaps you in the face, start chewing!”
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As of June 23, 2009, Barbara learned she won 3rd Place in a NFSPS contest category; that poem will be published in the 2010 Encore.  She also received three Honorable Mentions over fierce competition.  The previous year she only received two citations, so-- ever onward and upward!
 
 

 
Let Serendipity whack you a good one!
 
 
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