I’ve been holding this news in for a few days, but I’ve finally been given the go-ahead to spill the beans. Thank goodness. So, I won’t make you wait. I’ll just give it to you straight.
Ok, maybe I’ll make you wait a little. Are you ready to kick my butt yet? (Or have you already skipped ahead, and so aren’t reading this anyway?).
Ok, here it is, for real.
I’ve won the Rauxa Prize for Erotic Poetry with my poem, “Ritual.”
Holy crap, it gives me goosebumps just to say that!
The Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing is this amazing and wonderful foundation that does great things for erotica, and erotica writers. Check out this year’s winners and runners-up for fiction and poetry — they’re amazing examples of erotic writing at its best. I’m honored to be among them, I’m honored to be recognized, and most of all, I’m delighted that there are organizations like this in the world, the lift up and celebrate the erotic spirit in all of us.
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Oh my.
That is so, so wonderful!
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Sorry. I mean to say:
A massive and well deserved congratulations Ms S!
Shanna! Oh my gods! That’s incredibly awesome! Yay!
Thanks all! I’m seriously way giddy about this. In fact, I’m thinking that I shouldn’t have any more coffee or sugar or good news or I might just explode like that super hyper chick in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Plus, I keep pinching myself and I’m all black-and-blue!
Hehehe.
Best, s.
Congratulations
Oh, Shanna, how perfectly right that you would win this prize! I love it when the world works the way it ought to. Here’s to you and your breathtaking writing!!
Big congrats!!
XXX,
AT
Congrats!!! and yay!!! and wooohoooooo!!!! and..um…congratsyaywoohooooooapaloooza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxo
Sommer
That is so cool! Congratulations, Shanna!
Craig