"Carry the Light: Stories, Poems and Essays from the San Mateo County Fair" (San Mateo, CA: Sand Hill Review Press, 2012)
Joanne Shwed is a contributing writer to CoastViews Magazine. We are delighted to announce that she and her husband have been selected to receive several awards at the San Mateo County Fair.
THOMAS A. EKKENS
• Digital photograph Light Flow won 1st place in the Book Cover Art contest and was selected for the cover of Carry the Light: Stories, Poems and Essays from the San Mateo County Fair.
• Digital photograph Fissure won 1st place in the Book Cover Art contest and was selected for the cover of Fault Zone: An Anthology of Stories for the San Mateo County Fair.
• Poems Climb a Tree and Becoming a Full Moon (in a new poetry format called Ekkensian Verse) were selected for inclusion in Carry the Light: Stories, Poems and Essays from the San Mateo County Fair.
JOANNE SHWED
• Short stories The Survivors and Jumping Off won Honorable Mention in the Class 2 Senior Essay contest and were selected for inclusion in Carry the Light: Stories, Poems and Essays from the San Mateo County Fair.
• Backspace Ink did the cover design and production for Carry the Light: Stories, Poems and Essays from the San Mateo County Fair.
BOOK SIGNING EVENT AT THE FAIR
When: Sunday, June 10, 2012, at 4 p.m. (the fair runs from June 9 through June 17)
Where: San Mateo County Fair
Fine Arts Galleria, on the left hand side of Expo Hall as you come in from the parking lot. Our stage will be to the right towards the western entrance of the building, parallel to the vendor booths and past the Home Arts area with all the quilts.
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As literary director of the Fine Arts Galleria at the San Mateo County Fair, I am thrilled with our first published anthology. Joanne Shwed, from Backspace Ink, volunteered to create the cover design for Carry the Light, and it is absolutely stunning. Joanne is the epitome of what we hope for in a Carry the Light volunteer: the willingness to step up and lend a hand to help others find their own creative spirit. As you can imagine, putting together a 300 page book in just a few weeks was a daunting task, one in which Joanne accomplished in record time.
Her husband, Thomas Ekkens, won our book cover art contest with his magical photo, Light Fall – the perfect artistic interpretation of our theme. This is one productive couple! Look for Joanne’s essays and Tom’s poems in Carry the Light, what we believe is the first published collection of a county fair’s contest submissions. Tom’s other contest win is his photo Fissure, which will grace the cover of Fault Zone: Over the Edge, the 3rd annual anthology of stories edited by the San Francisco/Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club (CWC), to be published in late fall, 2012 by Sand Hill Review Press.
I’m sure Joanne and Tom will once again submit their creative work and considerable energy to the 2013 San Mateo County Fair!