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The Jefferson Awards are given to, “ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition.” How did a small-town guy rise to this level of appreciation?
After decades as a steel worker in an Ohio steel mill, Rich Banichar and his wife, Bonnie, recognized the incredible need of the homeless in the greater Richland County, Ohio area and they got involved by collecting clothing and food for homeless shelters
His latest piece appears in the Fall 2023 edition of Chicago Quarterly Review. The CQR is a nonprofit literary journal publishing fiction and nonfiction short stories, poems, and translations.
When an author faces the staggering statistic that just 1%-2% of all manuscripts are published, the question is how do you get published? InDepthNH.org and the New Hampshire Writers’ Project tackled this issue at the Zoom event, Storytelling and Publishing: Capturing and Sharing the Human Experience.
Manchester: Friendship can take you to different places. Jean Duffy and Bev Stohl’s circumstances took them on a road to forming a writer’s group, publishing their books, and eventually taking their knowledge with a how-to get your book published talk sharing their experiences and finding a way through the hard process.
So, why doesn’t it disappoint? We start with the food which we have eaten for over a decade and still to this day is reliably delicious. We like to sit at the bar and have our meal under the watchful eyes of the bartenders, one of whom is the second generation of her family’s line of T-Bones servers. I only know Chef Nicole Barriera from the commercials, but she has done a heck of a job maintaining the quality of the food.
LONDONDERRY: Deborah Blake Dempsey has walked on coals, taken trapeze lessons, sky-dived twice, learned falconry, flew on a hang glider, walked through an Ecuador rain forest looking for frogs, and rediscovered herself when she turned 38.
This is a promise from a man who has no tattoos at all. The slogan for the campaign is, “Make that geezer get those tattoos.”
In 2020, Keene State College professor, Brinda Charry, who had written her first novel, The East Indian, and looking for feedback, decided to enter the Pitch Party the New Hampshire Writers’ Project was putting on at their annual 603 Convention.