John Crawford has had a series of wins in contests lately: Mississippi Poetry Society, Annual Contests, 1st place, 2nd place; Tishamingo Arts Group (Mississippi), Annual Contest,1st place; Tennessee Poetry Society, Summer Contest, 1st place; Massachusetts Poetry Society, Annual Contests, 1st place, 2nd place; Hot Springs Haiku Contests, 1st place; Arizona State Poetry Society, July Contest, 1st place and September Contest, 1st place.

JC Crumpton signed books at ABC Books in Springfield, MO, on September 29th along with authors Gil Miller and Marlon Hayes. He's won first place in three contests at the White County Creative Writers conference held August 31st in Searcy, AR: poem "Be Not Diminished" in the Because I Said So Seventeen Line Poem Contest; essay "I Saw King Kong" in the I Love the 70s Contest; and short story "The Sideboard" in the Granny Prewitt Award (this is the second consecutive year he's won this Award).


Veda Boyd Jones' annual Christmas novella is The Sheriff's Christmas Candy, an ebook on Amazon.











Billie Holladay Skelley won five awards at the recent Missouri Writers' Guild Conference, including the First Place Award for Best Children's Work for Bass Reeves: Legendary Lawman of the Wild West. She also has a story in the new Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Christmas book which will be released on October 15th.
Links to the books:
https://www.amazon.com/Bass-Reeves-Legendary-Lawman-Crossing/dp/1959489046/
https://www.amazon.com/Chicken-Soup-Soul-Christmas-Gratitude/dp/1611591171/

Larry Wood won first place for The Ozarks Spook Light in the Show-Me Your Best Award category of the 2024 Missouri Writers' Guild contests and first place for "Kate Beattie: A Shrewd and Daring Rebel Agent" in the Best Magazine Article category. The awards were announced at the MWG's annual conference held in St. Louis the last weekend in September. Larry's new book Murder and Mayhem in Northeast Oklahoma will be published in late October by The History Press.