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Writing Recognition

* Winner, Compliations Category, Beach Book Festival 2010 for Second Grace: stories of fresh starts, second chances, and running away

 

 

* Honorable Mention, San Francisco Book Festival 2010 for Second Grace: stories of fresh starts, second chances, and running away

 

 

* Third Place, 15th Dame Lisbet Throckmorton Contest 2010 for "The Changing Room"

 

 

* Second Place, Elk Grove Library Short Story Contest 2010 for "Fruit of the Spirit"

 

 

* First and Second Round Finalist,

Reading Writers 2010 for "My Better Nature"


 

* Winner, Love Bites Reader Challenge,

Daily Lit 2010

 

                                         

* Environmental Futures Writing Prize,

Soul-Making Literary Awards 2009 for "ScentEasy"

 

                                         

* Third Place, Sacramento Public Library

Focus on Writers 2009 for "The Changing Room"

 

                                         

* Second Place, Elk Grove Library Short Story Contest 2009 for "The Voracious Reader"

 

                                         

* Honorable Mention, Word Hustler

Summer Poetry Contest 2009 for "Green"

 

                                         

* Seventh Place, NYC Midnight Creative Writing Championships 2009 for "Cleanliness Is"

 

                                         

* Honorable Mention, NYC Midnight 

Tweet-Me-a-Story 2009

 

                                         

* Honorable Mention, NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge 2008 for "Cold Call"

Second Grace: Stories of Fresh Starts,

Second Chances, and also Running Away

 

"It is such a delight to come across books like this—especially during the summertime. With kids roaming and screaming around the house, it truly was a treat to sit outside on the patio as Candace Leigh Coulombe transported me to many exhilarating settings with an assortment of folks, each having their own thought-provoking stories to tell. From posh spa lounges, botched out-of-town lover rendezvous, cruise mishaps, and a clandestine discussion taking place at the backroom of a perfumery, these short accounts will keep you on your toes, climaxing perfectly with every ending.

 

"Coulombe is a gifted writer and a breath of fresh air, especially in times where the industry is replete with people trying hard to be “authors” just because self-publishing is as easy as a click of a button. The passages in these short anecdotes were well-thought out, comprehensible, and filled with magnificent characters, most of which I connected with and whom evoked strong emotions from me that left me wanting more. Live through them vicariously for a moment and allow the collected stories of Second Grace to empower you to escape and start anew."

 

                  ~ The Sacramento Book Review, August 2010

 

 

 

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More story and book reviews coming soon....