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N'omi Rose

Welcome to RECOGNITIONS! A monthly column to recognize those students of Writers' Village University who have won recognition of their writing achievements!

I am sad to say I have had a computer crash, thereby losing all of December and January's Achievers.

To those of you who are excitedly looking at this column, expecting to see YOUR writing achievements to be listed, I am grievously sorry. Please, will you forward our email conversations to me, so that I might list you in March's column? Please be assured that a new policy has been put into place to prevent this from occurring again.

Again, I offer my apologies to you all for this loss of December and January's column.

Our huge kudos to Sharon Bakar, whose short story, "Where Were You Last Night?," has been chosen as one of the 24 authors to be included in "Silverfish New Writing 1"!

"This is the first time I've had the confidence to submit anything for publication, and that confidence came in large part from sharing my writing in the classes and from the feedback and encouragement I got from online friends! "

SNW1 was inspired by the British Council's influential New Writing anthology series. The publication of this book has attracted a great deal of attention, because it is the first anthology of short fiction in English published in Malaysia for nearly 30 years! SNW1 is a collection of 24 short fiction works in English by both Malaysian and Singapore writers. The last anthology of Malaysian short stories was published in 1968 and edited by Malaysian writer Lloyd Fernando. Therefore, these are really a very big deal! The URL for Silverfish New Writing is
http://www.silverfishbooks.com
Silverfish does mail order, so can be purchased online.

Her story sprouted from one of the WVU Story Starters "Where Were You Last Night." So, as you can see, I've a lot to be grateful to WVU for," Sharon says. Sharon has been a member of Writer's Village for under a year. Congratulations to Sharon!

Sincerely,
N'omi Rose
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