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Surprise at the POWA
Awards Banquet
Earlier this month Brad Isles and I attended the annual
spring awards conference of the PA Outdoor Writers
Association in Oil City, and it was a busy affair. We
both participated in board meetings and membership
gatherings, since we’re now officers in the
organization, and Brad sat in on some Saturday morning
news and information seminars.
I found several opportunities to promote my new book. I
donated copies for the Saturday night raffle, secured
two more writers to do book reviews, scheduled a radio
interview for the following week and taped a television
show right on the hotel premises. I also found out whom
to talk to about selling books in the Oil City area and
the Allegheny National Forest and hiked around town in
search of retail book outlets.
Good friends and fellow writers Ben Moyer and Gregg
Rinkus joined Brad and me at our table Saturday evening
for the annual craft awards banquet. I struck out on
raffle prizes, but I was surprised and pleased to find
out I won two important writing awards, the bi-annual
“Best Book” award for The F-Troop Camp Chronicles, which
brought more attention to the book in the outdoor
writing community, and the annual and highly competitive
“Pass It On” award for my newspaper feature “Learning to
Fish with Uncle Bud.” This was all such a surprise this
year, because I was not notified in advance, which is
the usual POWA practice. The only downside was that
Donna Rai was out of town and didn’t attend, and she
would have found a way to get there if she’d known I was
getting awards.
Good luck out there. And have a great week outdoors.
~ Don Feigert, 5-18-09
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