2022 gala

The All Stars Gala Luncheon at the Two Rivers Country Club in Williamsburg, Wednesday, November 16 was a stunning success!

    Those attending enjoyed a meal of Autumn Salad, Salmon on Autumn Salad, Prime Rib Panini with fruit, or Chicken Salad Wrap with fruit and a desert of  New York Cheesecake with fresh fruit.

    Fifteen members read their work in the All Stars Contest.

    All Star Contest Winners:
    • Sally Honenberger - FIrst Place
    • Ginny Brock - Second Place
    • Roger Gosden - Third Place and Rick Bailey Humor Award

    The 2022 CBW Golden Nib Contest winners:
    Poetry
    • First Place – “Gossip Central”  Norma I. Cofresí, Ph.D.
    • Second Place – “Green Room”   Denise DeVries  
    • Third Place – "Third Place – “We the People” Sharon Canfield Dorsey
    Fiction
    • First place – "The Treasured House"  Donna-Lin Pratt
    • Second Place –" Happy Jack's"   Peter Stipe
    • Third Place – "The Bloody Altar" Robert L. Webb
       
    Nonfiction
    • First Place  – “A Field of Dreams Remembered”   Diana Farrar Caron
    • Second Place – "The Price of Democracy”  Sharon Canfield Dorsey

    All Stars Contest

    The contestants were:

    Patricia Procopi "Old Joe" Fiction
    Peter Stipe   "Guiseppe's"  Fiction
    Diana Farrar Caron "Leonard Baskin's Contempt" Poetry
    Ann Skelton "The Ration Book" Fiction
    Ginny Brock "December 21st" Poetry
    Cindy L. Freeman  "My Angel Incident" Nonfiction
    Sarah Honenberger "Empty Rooms, Crowded Hallways" Fiction
    Mary Shipko "Bewildered" Nonfiction
    Norma Cofresi "Our Daily Bread"
    Roger Gosden "Rehabilitating Peter" Nonfiction
    Peggy Newcomb "A Night to Forge"t Nonfiction
    Sonja McGiboney "A Deadly Love" Fiction
    Susan Williamson "Reptile Peril"  Fiction
    Denise DeVries "Green Room"  Poetry
    Janice Hoffman "These Are the Hands" Poetry

    Attending Luncheon

    Carol J Bova
    Ginny Brock and Karen Kelley
    Elizabeth Brown
    Archie Campbell
    Diana Farrar Caron
    Norma Cofresi & Teo Feliciano
    Pam Crouch
    Denise DeVries
    Sharon Dillon
    Richard Easton
    Cindy Freeman
    Roger Gosden
    Linda & Mark Hallam
    Jan and Ken Hoffman
    Tim Holland
    Sarah Honenberger
    Sonja McGiboney
    Michele Motsko
    Cat Novelliere
    Peggy Newcomb
    Patricia Procopi
    Mary Shipko
    Ann & Rama Skelton
    Peter Stipe
    Charles Sutherland
    Susan Williamson
     

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