My weekly column in The St. Augustine Record won a second place award for humor writing in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2016 Column Contest. The awards were handed out at NSNC’s 40th annual conference in Los Angeles on June 25, and I had to be there … just to make sure it was for real. Because I didn’t believe it until I could see it for myself.
BUT IT WAS REAL!!!
The award was in the humor category for print newspapers under 50,000 circulation, and it’s the first national award I’ve received for my column.
The NSNC gave out more than 25 awards at its 2016 conference, and also recognized Pulitzer Prize winning-columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. and “Dear Abby” author Jeanne Phillips. Dang! Talk about good company.
Read more about it: http://www.columnists.com/2016/06/2016-column-contest-winners-announced-in-los-angeles/
Check out the three award-winning columns here (and yes, one of them is a letter to a cat!):
• A letter to Little Joe, the cat