When a writer has a success story as a result of FundsforWriters assistance, we want to sing it from the rafters! Let us know if fate has smiled upon you, and we'll list you here for all to see, celebrate, and learn.

 I'm going to toot my own horn here. I've been reading your newsletters for a while now Hope. I finally decided to apply for a SCBWI grant this year. Although I was very happy with my manuscript, I never thought, with 200 plus competitors, that I would win. But guess what? I did. So it never hurts to try!

Now, with the knowledge I've gained from you, I'm thinking of applying for one of my state literary grants in the future. Who knows...Thanks for all the wonderful information!

Annette

Dear Hope, I enjoy your newsletters, and subscribed to WritingKid for my daughters, 13 and 11. Both have received compensation for online submissions - to KidVisions and for the Writer's Digest children's competition, resulting from leads in your newsletter. ~Robin Keith

Dear Hope,

Your essays on crit groups came at a time for me when I JUST joined a group. I was pleasantly surprised. There were many on-the-money suggestions for the writers who were brave enough to put their work "out there." I was delighted. I bravely offered the work I have done on a nonfiction book for 9-12 year-old girls. If helps to have someone with "fresh eyes" read the material because it is seen from a different perspective other than my own. I came away feeling invigorated and determined. I am absolutely going to forge onward because I know young girls will benefit from reading this book.

PLUS...I want you to know that because of your FFW, I submitted articles to Garden and Hearth online magazine. They accepted and published 2 of the 3. I then applied to become a Contributing Editor for them covering the Camping and RVing section for the ezine. I got the job! I went live with my own micro site on May 25. www.gardenandhearth.com/camping.htm

After all this rambling, I want you to know how much I value your FFW newsletters. Keep them coming!

Thanks so much, Janet (aka jqrose on The WritersChatroom)

I just wanted to say thank you. I have been a subscriber for a couple of years now. Last year in one of your newsletters, I noticed a call for a group looking for short stories on Alzheimer's. I had one that I had written, so I spruced it up and submitted it. The group bought it and the book will be in bookstores in late May. I am not only thrilled to be officially a paid, published author but to have done so with such a wonderful charity. I have received my advanced copy and it is WONDERFUL!  Reading it has brought me to tears a couple of times. Also, in May I will be attending the book launching at the invitation of "The Healing Project" and LaChance Publishing. Another thrill I wouldn't be having without you and your newsletter. Thanks from one very happy author!  

~Catherine Johnson, www.thehealingproject.org/voices.html

I've read your newsletter since it was recommended way back when. I've followed the journey from one home to the next. Recently, I decided that I'm in another head space. I can't write because I'm so busy trying to support my family and my writing hasn't made that chore any easier. I accepted a "job," an offer I could not refuse in terms of salary and benefits. Within the first week of the "catastrophic" adjustment, I cancelled the majority of writing newsletters. Including the big guns. And yes, I had prepared the e-mail to cancel FundsforWriters but I couldn't click "send."

Whether I needed Hope to maintain my link to the dream of being a successful writer, I can't say. Whether it was because you don't promote yourself with arrogance is probably the more likely reason. I simply could NOT and would NOT make you go away. Your advice is always ripe with sage, appropriate for the day and filled with information.

I'm actually writing more than ever after a month in the new job, a job I will never give up I love it so much. Maybe one day I'll submit. For now it's sufficient to work on my novel and write an hour a day, producing far more than I did in the past year, knowing that Hope urges me to write.

So, in short, I thank you for being you. Belatedly, I wish you a world of happiness in your new home. Perhaps some day our paths will cross. ~Wishing you much success, Cheryl R.

Hi Hope

I wanted to purchase a number of your updated ebooks as they have proven so useful in the past. Since the last time I ordered your ebooks, you have added a number of new tantalizing works. I am currently in Germany on a one-year grant that I only learned about because of your wonderful newsletters! I am at orientation seminar and I unfortunately have limited access to the Internet. I figured instead of resting on my laurels I would continue to apply for other grants and your books are the most useful sources of information for me in my writing career! All the best and thank you for your hard work. You really simplify my life with all your information and succinct writing information.

Kirsten Traynor

I wanted to thank you for including the Epstein Literary Agency in the May 5th issue of TOTAL FundsforWriters. As soon as I checked out Kate Epstein's web site I knew she was the agent for me. I signed with her on June 5th. She's a wonderful agent and does a great job. I'd recommend her to anyone. Her agency is relatively new and I don't think I would have found her had it not been for your newsletter. She's not even listed in WritersMarket.com yet.

Heather Cook

I am writing to tell you that I secured my first paying freelance assignment - reviewing humorist Bill Bryson's forthcoming memoir! I have contacted the books editor at Paste Magazine and we have finally found a pitch which works for the magazine, too. There were several occasions where I pitched a book that had already been pitched by others, and one in particular seemed to have potential but was ultimately rejected because one of their feature reviews for that issue was going to focus on similar material from a different author.

You and others have written about the need for writers to have patience and be persistent, and in this case, those suggestions have proven to be right. I want to thank you for all the creative ideas you have offered us in your newsletters, and I want to encourage you to keep at it because you do a great job and I know we readers definitely appreciate it.

Sincerely, Brian Palmer, Author of The Last Page

Dear Ms. Clark, 

In March I entered a contest listed on your website. The contest was sponsored by Lace Ministries and entitled Tuesday Morning Encouragement. They just notified me I received honorable mention for my submission. Thanks for providing the information on FundsforWriters.

Faith Waters

Janet Glaser

Enjoyed your SHY WRITER - found my niche in promoting my first two novels of a family saga. It can be done.

Nancy Minnis Damato

I wanted to tell you that thanks to all the newsletters you put out, I really upped the ante on my submissions last year because you sent around these great markets. Some I had success with, and some I didn't, but the fact of the matter was it was THE most productive year for me ever. I used some of the tips in your great "From Hope" sections. I really look forward to reading where you are in your work, what suggestions you have for sticking with plans, etc - very inspiring and motivational! At any rate, TOTAL FundsforWriters was the best investment I made last year. This year I made a resolution to buy a few of your ebooks. Then I got a reminder to renew TOTAL and that you offered different packages for the ebooks AND TOTAL...well, that clinched it for me that it was time to buy them now! Here's to another year of productivity for the both of us! Thanks so much for all you do for the writing community. I can't imagine my writing life without you!!!"

A devoted advocate of FundsforWriters and Hope Clark, ~Courtney Mroch, Author of Beneath the Morvan Moon, www.courtneymroch.com 

I think what you do here is one of the BEST venues for writers and in the world. I have come across so many awesome opportunities here. If I win and am published in the children's book writing contest I will owe it all to you.  This is where I saw the ad.  How exciting it is for you to do this for all of us. I just found another venue for me to possibly get published. Thank you again.  A thousand thanks! I really appreciate what you do and all the work you put into this. You help the world of writing go round!

All my respect and gratitude,
Sandee Rager

I just wanted to let you know that I found "Green Prints" through FFW Small Markets. I sent them my personal experience piece and they bought it immediately, and not just for pennies! I also entered the short fiction contest at nebpublishing.com and won honorable mention. I found this contest through you, too. You're a great resource for my writing, and I hope to sell many more pieces to markets found in your newsletter! Thanks so much! 

Sonja Herbert, Oregon

Ms. Clark, I wanted to thank you. I won first prize ($400) in the contest sponsored by difficultpeople.org. Your newsletter with the small markets is awesome! I am a new writer and I can't believe the kinds of resources and contacts you provide.

Jody Courtney

NOTE: Jody is visually impaired and recently ordered our ebook package in DOC format so she can enhance it for better reading. That is a service we offer for readers and writers in her situation.  ~Hope

First, congrats....I hear lot of great things about your Shy Writer book and your site/ newsletters...You've worked hard and are seeing more blossoming with every passing day...but even more so, you've earned so much respect from thousands of writers who are trying to fulfill their dreams. It's like what you once told me...you said after getting  rejections, keep submitting and good things will come to pass...

Today for me just got MORE unreal...as I am a travel writer in part, I had applied for an air inclusive press trip last week, but never heard back after initial contacts...well, they just emailed me and said I was accepted, had been trying to get a hold of me I guess...lucky for me
they tried one more time...I got their last ditch attempt email...

I didn't think I could bear the rejections, but I don't know if I can handle days so full of surprises and  acceptances...ha ha.....But it's days like May 31 that make those other days/weeks of struggling and being dissed all worth it!!!!  A month ago, I was really down after the rejection tsunami.

A toast of the best champagne to each of us...

Roy Barnes
from the plains of SE Wyoming

Hello, Hope!

Your mother certainly named you well. You are one of the most determined and positive people I've "read" save for James Herriot. I loved your rant on lemons in the April 24, 2005 edition of FundsforWriters. Perhaps it's a good time to tell you how much good you do for people with your newsletters.  I have had a steady snowball of success with writing since I began receiving them, and 90% of the success (at least) is directly due to markets I learned about through you. 

Warm regards,
Tanya

Hope, I received the check for the first article yesterday. I have written for a number of magazines, everything from the Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly to The Comic's Buyer's Guide and you have, by far, the fastest turn around of any of them. Thanks.

Ronny Richardson

I just wanted to thank you for your efforts in putting this newsletter together. A friend clued me into it recently, and within a couple of months of subscribing to it, I had a great opportunity. You included an ad for a writers program in Romania, and I've been working on a novel set there for a couple of years. I thought I'd never have the chance to see the place before the novel was done, but they have selected me to be in their program! I'll be spending a week there in September, visiting the cities I'm focusing on for the novel. It was so great to discover the program through this newsletter, thank you for your help in making it happen!
Best regards,
Christine Frost

"It is amazing how many of our readers wrote and thanked us for giving out your info and website. Many of our readers are new to writing so have not found resources or support they can depend on to help them with their writing goals. We'll probably mention your website once a month or so to make sure all new subscribers also know about Funds for Writers.

Wonderful work you are doing!
--Allen and Linda :-)  http://www.writingontherun.com "

For 2005 I decided to invest in your "No Fee Contest Book" and finally work up the courage to submit my writing to formal contests. The first contest I ever entered was the Euphoria Poetry Contest, which I learned about from your book.

This morning I was informed that my poem "From a Daughter to her Father" has won first prize. I wanted to thank you for putting together the "No Fee Contest Book" for people like me, who want to test the waters to see how their work will be received without paying entry fees. I have attached the winning poem below.

I am new to sharing my work publicly and have found your newsletters to be both helpful and inspiring. Thank you for all the effort and time you put into them. I look forward to receiving your informative newsletters. I always welcome your insightful suggestions, tips, and resources.

Sincerely,
Kirsten Traynor

Hi Hope...I had the honor of meeting you at the Florida Writer's conference. I am still jazzed by the power emitted in that room! Thank-you for the inspiration and assistance.

Patsy T. Epperson

Dear Hope, I am a longtime subscriber to the FFW newsletter, and am continually inspired by your editorial letters at the beginning of each edition. Inspired so much, in fact, that last year I quit a very decent job to get my MFA in writing. Today I write you as editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and wanted to let the FFW community know about another publishing option through us. www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/journal . Thanks for your time and thanks for the newsletters.

Thom Blaylock

Hope, I wanted to thank you for your advice! When I asked you about grants to help writers with expenses such as workshops, you informed me to contact the workshop I was interested in because they usually have some grants available to attend. I was awarded a grant to cover the cost of a workshop, about $140! This not only helped my financial situation, it made be believe someone (other than me) believed in my future potential - a needed boost. Thank-you for all your help. It is greatly appreciated!

Kindly, Patty Smith

Hi Hope,

I subscribe to two of your newsletters. Through one of them I learned of the 2004 Norumbega Fiction Awards and submitted my novel My Little One to them. Last week, I was notified I was a finalist! Thank you so much for all the wonderful information that you put out there for all of us. You provide wonderful resources for so many writers and I am most appreciative of all your efforts.

Nancy Machlis Rechtman, www.nancyrechtman.com

Just wanted to let you know that I received the A Studio in the Woods residency , which I heard of through your newsletter.   I will stay in a house in the woods in Louisiana, right by the Mississippi River and half an hour from New Orleans for a month next spring, with a stipend of $2000!  Many thanks for the wonderful service you provide.

Aurora Levins Morales

I teach at a local university and was asked by the textbook's publisher to make recommendations for the next edition.  In return, they sent me $300.  About this time last year, I read in one of your newsletters about how to make more money from freelance work.  You recommended that writers get in touch with folks for whom they have done work in the past and see if they needed similar work.  I decided to contact that publisher to see if they needed any reviews for other textbooks.  The editor of the textbook asked me if I would be interested in co-authoring the next edition of the textbook I had used in class because she was so impressed with my thoughtful and thorough evaluation of the text.  Here it is, a year later, and the book has been published with me as co-author!  Your newsletters are so full of great ideas, I wish I could follow all of them, but I had to let you know that I followed through specifically on one this suggestion and was rewarded with a great result.  Thank you!

Cynthia

P.S.  The book is "Legal Aspects of Engineering 7th Edition" released this month.  Publisher:  Kendall/Hunt.

Dear C. Hope Clark:

I subscribe to all Funds For Writers e-newsletters. I'm ashamed to mention that I have no idea which e-newsletter prompted me to write and submit an entry to a writer's contest a couple of months ago. But recently I was notified that the entry "Black, Big-Headed Celt: A Celtic Blessing" received an honorable mention in the one-act play category of the Cincinnati Celtic World Festival Writers Contest. Winners' names will be posted August 15th at http://www.CincinnatiCelticFestival.com /. Thank you for inspiring me with the excellent content in your e-newsletters, for without FFW, I may never have known about that particular contest, or written and entered  that one-act play.

Appreciate FFW and you a great deal!

Sincerely,
Patricia Spork
www.patriciaspork.us
http://www.booklocker.com/books/1515.html

Dear Hope,
I just met with success in my freelancing business and wanted to let you know it's largely because of you! I've been freelancing part time for the last few years, and took the leap of faith to doing it full time in April. In June, I started scraping the bottom of my bank account because the nonfiction contracts I was getting won't pay until later in the year. I remembered that you had listed ConsumerSearch.com in one of your newsletters, so I queried them and got an assignment reviewing air purifiers. I'm now working on my fifth assignment for them, and my editors have been so happy they called me a "gem" and said I could work for them as much as I want! I never thought I'd be reviewing household appliances for a living, but for now it pays very well and quickly, and it stimulates my brain, so I'm content. It promises to be a long-term, lucrative gig that will support me as I venture into other kinds of writing. Thanks for your wonderful newsletters and encouragement!

Abby Plambeck
Email: aplambeck@freelance-worker.com 
www.abbyplambeck.com 

Hope, I love to read your 'notes' as they not only inspire me but help me reason to keep trudging on. I have not been 'published' as of yet but I am still stumbling looking for that first solid step. I turn 33 on Thursday and will not let that stop me. Please do not stop your inspiration! I need it and I'm sure I'm not the only one!!

Thanks, Bonne White

Dear Hope,

I'm still struck speechless. . . A few weeks ago, I submitted a couple of poems to a poetry site, ApollosLyre.com, that I found on your site, FundsforWriters.com -- and -- I just received an email from the editor that he's going to publish both poems in the August edition!

While I have had prose published in "Haunted Encounters" (2 books of the series), Atriadpress 2003 & 2004, and Angela Hoy's new book of "Real Stories of Spirit Communication", Booklocker.com, 2004, I sent the poems to Apollo's Lyre on a whim and never dreamed they would receive serious consideration! (I'm so tickled, I'm "doing the endzone dance" in my mind -- still!)

You see, my mother plied her skill as a published poetess for over half-a-century. . . and I grew up greatly admiring her for her art, but I never dared dream that the Muse's blessing would EVER fall upon MY pen (or, in this case, "keyboard")  ;o) and I have you and your wonderful site to thank for having changed all that for me -- forever.

Thank you for putting so much of yourself and your diligent effort into maintaining a site where we "struggling Up-and-Comings" can find real, solid, helpful information and referrals to help us all along the road toward realizing our dreams. Bless you.

Warmest Regards,
Jean C. Fisher, "Authoress" AND (now) "Poetess" (too!)

Hope
    I was just notified that I received the Kittredge Award.  It will enable me to publish and distribute my book George Washington's Revolutionary Marshals for the elementary age student.  Thank you.

Rae Anna Victor

Hi Hope,

My self-published book, "Anxieties In The Outhouse, The Diary Of An Appalachian Man" has won first place in both the poetry and the prose division of the 55th Annual Columbus Arts Expo in Columbus, Ohio. Have found your advice to be of help along the way. Keep up the good work.

Sincerely,
R. Eugene Wallace

Dear Hope,

Thanks for all of the great information you continue to offer your readers. I just received notification that my story, "An Early Mourning", will appear in Chicken Soup for the Caregiver's Soul.  I believe I saw the original posting for this call for stories on your website.      THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU

Cheers~
Wendy Young
wyoung@up.net 

Hope, I am so impressed with the thoroughness of the article on health writing. Your author did an exceptional job, especially giving us the contact names, contact addresses and their specialties. Wonderful! This is information I have been searching for many months. Thank you. Also, the generous way you shared with me about setting up my newsletter. You are such a human being, flesh and blood - on the Internet. Now is that rare or not?

M. Tucker

Hope,

I thought you'd like to know that your newsletter led to my first published article.  As I was reading, one of the descriptions sounded like a magazine that might be a "fit".  After perusing their writer's guidelines, I prepared a piece and sent it in.  The editor was very enthusiastic but said they just didn't have a place for the piece.  Deep down, I knew this was a fit and every so often sent her a "blip" of work, a Christmas card, etc.  Early in the year, I got an e-mail from her, something to the effect, "Our cover story for the July/August issue is no more.  Immediately, I thought of you. It is a tight deadline.  Would you be willing to do it?"

Was I ever!  My first (paid for) published piece and it is to be the cover story! Thank you, Hope!

Rene

Hope

Just wanted to drop you a line to tell you again, thank you, and what an encouragement you are to me. You do give me "HOPE" which is appropriate for this time. I was just laid off from work last Wednesday, but I am currently a senior at University studying English / Literature. Being laid off, I am taking the opportunity to pursue the writing career I've always wanted but didn't think I could have. You are showing me that it is not just a dream, but could be a reality.

I responded to one of the listings in your Fundsforwriters newsletters and have received a response to the communication! We haven't set any deals yet, but at least the correspondence we have established is favorable and encouraging! I know with your help I will be able to pursue and achieve my dream. You don't know how much that means to me.

Thank you again for all that you do, you rock!
Gina Sutherland
Aspiring and loving it!!!

Hi Hope,

I just wanted to share a writing success with you!  I've received so much good information from your newsletters and I'm positive I got this market info from you. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I pulled a package out of the mailbox and went upstairs to my bedroom to do my usual unwind.  I knew I hadn't ordered any books lately but, frankly, I had no curiosity about this package. Finally, maybe an hour later, I opened it.

A slip of paper fell out thanking me for being a contributor and advising me how to get additional copies for a discount.  I frowned, thinking what is this paper talking about? And, then, I remembered.  I had submitted a piece on friendship to the "Simple Pleasures of Friendship" anthology editor last December. My piece had been published and I even received a small payment for it. I flipped to the back of the book and there it was, my name underneath the piece I had submitted.

I felt both happy and ashamed.  You see, I was so discouraged by the 14 or so rejections I had received by the end of last January, that I just stopped writing.  I know, I know, I shouldn't have.  In fact, I had received an email saying that this piece wouldn't be used. So, naturally, I was shocked to see that it was.  But I was also motivated. And I hope that if you decide to use this, that it'll also encourage and motivate the other writers out there who read your outstanding newsletter. Don't give up!

By the way, since then, I've gone back and compiled contest and market information from your most recent newsletters and am currently working my way through my list.  I've prepared three short stories and 14 greeting card verses for submission and I'm about to start the synopsis for my novel.

My publication credit is a small victory, perhaps, to those who are far more published than I but this taught me not to despite small beginnings.  This time, I'll just keep writing!

Thanks again,
Pamela Blackmon

Hope, 

Thank you so much for your notifications. I just won first place in the Inland Empire nonfiction contest, which I found through your listing.

Khughes

Hi Hope

Some time ago there was a listing for Chicken Soup for the PreTeen Soul II...my eight-year-old son entered a submission on the loss of his great grandmother and has made the first cut...the adults loved it and it is now going to a preteen reader panel.  Doesn't matter if he makes the final cut...he was thrilled to be called by Chicken Soup.

Thank you for bringing this newsletter to aspiring writers...my son loves it and this is his first stab at being "published"...at such a tender age (ha).

BTW, I quite enjoy receiving my FFW.

Best - Wendy and Jimmy from Michigan

Hi Hope,

I subscribe to your newsletter and just wanted to share and thank you for a great opportunity that came my way after first reading about it in FundsforWriters.  A few months back you posted a call for Peer Reviewers for the U.S. Dept. of Education's Arts in Education Program.  I thought, why not, since I'm constantly applying for fellowships and grants, it'll be a great chance to see things from the other side.  Well, I sent in my cv and got chosen!

It's been a tremendous experience, and I've interacted with some incredible fellow panelists.  The $1000 honorarium is also coming at just the moment my 2003 IRS tax extension expires.  More importantly, I've learned an invaluable amount about what makes a strong grant proposal, information I know I will be applying for years to come.

Please know that your newsletter truly makes a difference for other writers.  Bless you for your work, best wishes, and THANK YOU again!

Sincerely,
Lan Tran

By the way, I wanted you to know I got a favorable reply to a query I sent to the LA Times Travel section. They only take stories written on spec, but the editor said she's very interested in my work, and this particular story on drive-in movies at resorts in the Phoenix area.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this with you, because your newsletters have been very instrumental in keeping my eyes on the prize! Thanks so much...

Sheri Zeimann

Dear Hope,

A few months ago you published a letter from a writer who had just had her children's book published on ChildrenzBooks.com . Well, I thought,"Why not try it!". So I submitted my manuscript and samples of illustrations and now my book "Seven Lovely Days" is available at ChildrenzBooks.com!! Thank you for your newsletter!

Sincerely,
Mary Anita Winklea 

Hi, Hope,

I wrote to you a few months back about having an acceptance for my children's story picture book, "Fat Cat's Problem" featuring Fat Cat and Gray Mouse.  I found out about the market through Funds for Writers.  Well, story number two, "Fat Cat and the Lost Ring," will be up this week at childrenzbooks.com.  Childrenzbooks editor, Lawrence Lee also accepted the third story today, "Fat Cat's Missing Friend."

Lawrence has been wonderful to work with, as well as the illustrator, Ashok Raj who lives in India.  Perhaps the biggest thrill for me was in a recent note from Ashok.  He said, "My second son, who's starting school this summer, has to look at the Fat Cat's Problem e-book every night before bed.  Fat Cat and Gray Mouse are his friends and he has to be reassured that they are safe in their world inside the computer before he retires."

I do feel good about this series and how it's going.  Please let folks know that I go by the old axiom or definition of "good luck."  That's went preparedness meets opportunity.  I acted when I saw the info.  Probably that was a big part of getting in before the rush/rash of sub missions. I hope all is going well with you.  Just wanted to share.

Pat 

Contest - Patricia Harrington's Author Website
New  -     Murder In Mind Anthology (Paranormal Press)
New  -     Fat Cat's Problem (Emerging Reader Series)

Dear Hope,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU,
I submitted 9 cards to His Power Publishing, that I got off of your Funds For Writers. Here is the kicker. They bought my card  (For My Son,On Valentine's Day.) This is the first submission I have ever sent in... What are the odds of?????? Getting published on your first submission??? I was in total shock. I screamed, My mother thought someone died????? I scared her bad.
After the shock, What do I do???? Should I E-mail them back with a thank you? They are sending me a contract, Should I file for a copy write? I hear them say, they have to pull you off the ceiling... My mother and sister-in-law had to bring me back to earth. I cried so much, I now know what it is like to get something you want more than anything in the world. I have never felt like this before in my life. I want to thank you for this. You are the Queen......
Thanks Again
Lisa K. Hiter McGuire

I just received notice that the essay I wrote for the Writer Magazine's essay contest, done in conjunction with Author's Venue, placed 8th.  I entered during a ha-ha moment thinking that if I won the grand prize, I would have an all-expense paid trip to my first writer's conference in Tahoe with Anne Lamott as the keynote speaker. 

There was a grand prize, a first, second and third prize in each of five categories, and then the top 10 entries are to be taken to the conference to be viewed by editors and agents.  That information was provided at the time I entered.  According to the info I got in the award email, I can have a fifteen minute consultation with either a senior editor from the Writer or a staff member of Author's Venue when they will go over why my entry wasn't number 1, 2 or 3, how to improve it and do "...a full critique of your entry and...discuss possible markets for your work and include our personal recommendation to the appropriate editor of that publishing house or press."

I am excited about this opportunity since it's only the second contest I have ever entered.  There were 97 entries in my category. Thanks very much for your help - for the listing ... from Funds for Writers!

Warmly,

Jill Miller Zimon