As someone very fortunate in winning writing contests over my many years of writing, I shouldn't complain about being an honourable mention in two recent contests, My short story, "Sometimes Crime Pays" was a H.M. in the Capital Crime Writers' Audrey Jessup short story contest this June.
Also, I was recently informed that three of the poems I entered in The Ontario Poetry Society's "Rain on the Brain" contest won honourable mentions.
It's always a thrill to win something or get published. My review of Isabel Allende's new novel,
A Long Petal of the Sea, appeared recently in
Compulsive Reader. Here is the link
http://www.compulsivereader.com/2020/06/16/a-review-of-a-long-petal-of-the-sea-by-isabel-allende/