Writing Credits

And in Conclusion..., speech for Toastmasters, March 2010
The Times, They are A'Changing, speech for Toastmasters, March 2010
A Little Less Talk, A Little More Action, speech for Toastmasters, February 2010
Zippy, speech for Toastmasters, January 2010
Creating the Fictional Dream, speech for Toastmasters, January 2010

What's It All About, Alfie?, speech for Toastmasters, December 2009
The Plot Thickens, speech for Toastmasters, November, 2009
Are YOU Talking to ME?!, speech for Toastmasters, October 2009
What a Character!, speech for Toastmasters, September 2009
In the Beginning, speech for Toastmasters, August 2009
Rest Area, I-40, Charlotte Writers' Club Anthology, Summer 2009
Here We Go Again, speech for Toastmasters, July 2009
It was the Best of Times, speech for Toastmasters, June 2009
Travel Terrors; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Enjoy the Trip, speech for Toastmasters, April 2009
The Makeover, speech for Toastmasters, March 2009

The Mouse's Tale, speech for Toastmasters, December 2008
I Looked and It Was There, speech for Toastmasters, November 2008
Oral Tradition, Cambridge University Press, September 2008
Memory, or the Lack Thereof, speech for Toastmasters, September 2008
Please Leave Me My Mystique, speech for Toastmasters, July 2008
We, the People, speech for Toastmasters, June 2008
Stop Planning, Already!, speech for Toastmasters, May 2008
Planning the Corporate Event; or, Why Does My Boss Hate Me?, speech for Toastmasters, April 2008
The Lewis & Clark Expedition; Seven Degrees of Separation, speech for Toastmasters, March 2008
A Pretty Cool Guy, speech for Toastmasters, March 2008
How to Take a Flying Leap, speech for Toastmasters, February 2008
Just Hear Those Sleighbells Jing-a-Ling, Eclectica, January 2008
Oh, Natalie!, Eclectica, January 2008
Frozen in Place, Eclectica, January 2008
Something to Talk About, speech for Toastmasters, January 2008.

How Do You Get to Here from There?, speech for Toastmasters December 2007.
Rite of Passage, speech for Toastmasters November 2007.
Favorite Words, speech for Toastmasters October 2007.
Water's Edge published in the Charlotte Writers' Club Anthology, Summer 2007.
Flags Waving published online by East of the Web, March 2007
Then the Sharks broadcast on Radio for the Blind, Washington state, by Fifth Saturday Audio Theater Company, March 2007
Say It and After the Wink published by TBRA Publishing in an anthology for student Oral Interpretation use, January 2007.

Seven Warning Signs That Will Save Your Life published in apt magazine, August 2006.
Jim, personal essay, published in Our Voices at www.BoomerWomenSpeak.com, August 2006.
The Last Time Dad Got Out of Jail published in Eclectica, July 2006.
Oral Tradition; Fussing in the Key of G is published at east of the web, June 2006.
Old Guy’s Monolog is accepted by Radio for the Blind, Fifth Saturday Audio Theater Company to be broadcast in December.
SC Writers Workshop invites me to judge the fiction entries for the SCWW anthology: Catfish Stew, Volume IV. Seventy-five entries make for some very interesting and entertaining reading, May 2006.

After the Wink broadcast on Radio for the Blind, Washington state, by Fifth Saturday Audio Theater Company, December 2005.
After the Wink is part of the curriculum in Advanced English class at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Isatapalapa, Mexico, October-November 2005.
Coming to My Senses screened along with clips from Shawshank Redemption and Castaway as part of a film series and discussion group – The Pulpit Meets the Underground; Transformational Moments in Mainstream and Independent Film. September 2005.
After the Wink published in Speak Up, Spain (September 2005), distributed throughout Spain, Mexico and Latin America. This story has also been translated into Vietnamese and circulated on many Vietnamese websites, read on-air by Evergreen Reading Service (for the blind) on Seattle radio channel KUOW, and in an odd juxtaposition, taught in Danish university classes alongside the work of Raymond Carver(!).
Another Weekend with Susie published in the June/July 2005 issue of 7th Quark Magazine , UK.
Coming to My Senses – adapted for short film by Chad Richards of Indianapolis, Indiana, first aired December 2004. Shown in film fests in New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and Bloomington, 2005.

Something to Talk About – published in Charlotte Writers’ Club Anthology, September 2004.
After the Wink published in Mind the Gap, anthology for use of literature students, Chicago, Illinois. August 2004.
After the Wink published in Speak Up Magazine, Italy, July 2004.
…in Love and War published at Eclectica, July/August 2004.
After the Wink adapted for student film by Jonathon Martofel, Carnegie-Mellon University, May 2004.
Say It published in Ink Pot, March 2004.

Another Weekend with Susie - published in Eclectica Anthology, November 2003. Nice mention in Amazon review.
After the Wink - published in Sexy Shorts for Christmas (UK), October 2003.
Something to Talk About - honorable mention, Charlotte Writers' Club essay competition, September 2003.
Water's Edge - gift story at EspressoFiction, July-December, 2003.
Oh! the Overnight - published in BuzzWords 22 (UK), May 2003.
Coming to My Senses - published in Eclectica, April 2003.
After the Wink - published at eastoftheweb, April 2003.
Litterbox Full - published at Literary Potpourri, April 2003

Cubby Holes and Hiding Places - published in Skirt! Magazine, October 2002.
Something to Talk About - 2nd place winner in Conversely Antidote Essay contest, September 2002
Litterbox Full - finalist in the Elizabeth Simpson Smith short fiction contest sponsored by Charlotte Writers Club, September 2002.
Me and Mom and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - published in Caregiving Magazine, July 2002, and C.A.R.D. caregivers' Magazine, September 2002.
Then the Sharks - published at http://www.memoriesofwar.com, July 2002.
Another Weekend with Susie - winner of the Readers' Choice award, Peninsular Magazine, July 2002.
Going to Vermont - published in BuzzWords (UK), February 2002.
Oral Tradition; Fussing in the Key of G - honorable mention in the Real Writers short fiction contest, January 2002.

The Last Noel - published in BuzzWords (U.K.), December 2001
Water's Edge, published in Lonzie's Fried Chicken, November, 2001.
Going to Vermont - published in Skirt! Magazine, November 2001.
Room 506, Bed 2 - poem displayed at opening ceremony of North Carolina Women's Hospital, Raleigh, NC, September 2001.
New Trends in Writing: Incipient Geezerdom - published online in Inscriptions, March 12, 2001.
School Projects; or, Why Does My Child's Teacher Hate Me? - published in Western New York Family magazine, February 2001.

I Don't Need No Stinkin' Advice - published online at Inscriptions, December 2000.
Imaginary Lover - published online at HotRead.com, January 2000. Featured along with five other stories of mine, it was among their bestsellers
throughout 2000.

The Warm Curve of the Throat - published in City Primeval, October 1999.
No Anchovies - published in Short Stuff Magazine, August 1999.
Don't Let Me Bother You - published in Lonzie's Fried Chicken, Summer 1999
But Who's Counting? - published in Independence Boulevard, March 1999.

Another Weekend with Susie - - 2nd place winner of the Elizabeth Simpson Smith short fiction award, Charlotte Writers Club, September, 1998.

Created on 04/09/2005 05:09 PM by cagosta
Updated on 03/31/2010 03:03 PM by cagosta