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I’m Author of the Year, Spillwords Press Awards!

Thank you all for voting me Author of the Year on Spillwords Press Awards MMXXIII! I won!!! (and I am still pitching myself) 😊

My sincere gratitude goes to my readers, my fellow authors, my incredibly supportive family, and the hard workings staff at Spillwords Press. Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me!

Author of the Year, Spillwords Press Awards Patricia Furstenberg

I am honored and elated to receive this Award. It will set the standards higher for my work, starting today.

This year’s competition was fierce. There were 13 very talented authors nominated for Author of the Year. I am proud to say that two other Romanian writers, Virginia Mateiaş and Simona Prilogan, were nominated in the Publication of the Year (Poetic). Virginia Mateiaş won.

Winner Author of the Year, Spillwords Press Awards Patricia Furstenberg

You can sample my work published on Spillwords Press during the last year, the stories and poems that earned me Author of the Month and Author of the Year Awards:

“I touched the rain, it was all jewels,
I touched the rain and laughed, and laughed.” (Rain by Patricia Furstenberg)

Rain poem Patricia Furstenberg

“Oh, the way you can change your looks, it never ceases to surprise me! And the heavenly scent of your voluptuous body, always surprising, yet always the same; homely, unmistakable, and promising.” (A Love Letter to Coffee by Patricia Furstenberg)

A Love Letter to Coffee lyric prose Patricia Furstenberg

“I am into the woods before I know it, my feet following the path, my heart heavy with remorse, my ears alert, and forward facing like a horse’s. The mulching leaves of early autumn soften my steps, the earth smells wet and rotting. I pulled it in, crisp, clean, to steady myself. The moon is about to go, relinquishing her hold onto the forest. Good.” (Pure at Heart bu Patricia Furstenberg)

Pure at Heart literature Patricia Furstenberg

“Hear the wind hissing like a crazed whip,
hear it roaring like a mad thing,
the sky darkened, sun long dead,
moon a yellow thumbnail about to swell” (On the Night of Sant Andrew by Patricia Furstenberg)

On the Night of Saint Andrew Halloween poem Patricia Fustenberg

“The street fell silent. The room was long quiet, only the sound of paper rustling stirred the shadows, the memories, and the heavy breathing of old Father Carp. Until the sounds became more and more regular, until the soothing whisper of paper ceased too, the heavy book dropped, the old man deep asleep.
Outside, the town was asleep too and dreams and wishes swirled around it, on wings of frigid winds.” (An Unexpected Christmas Gift by Patricia Furstenberg)

An Unexpected Christmas Gift a heartwarming story Patricia Furstenberg

Author Of The Year 2022 Interview

“We offer this exclusive Q&A Interview with Patricia Furstenberg, Author of the Year of 2022, a writer whose multiple literary works have been featured on our Spillwords pages, as well as previously being Author of the Month of October 2022.”

Patricia Furstenberg Author of the Year 2022 Spillwords Press Awards
Patricia Furstenberg Author of the Year 2022 Spillwords Press Awards

41 Replies to “I’m Author of the Year, Spillwords Press Awards!”

  5. Hearty congratulations, dear Patricia. Very happy for you. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

  9. Thank you so much, Graham! Much appreciated.
    The dissecting bit comes from a previous life. I hold a medical degree. You can say I traded scalpel for pen.

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