Suzette won First Place for Online, Multimedia, Blogs (category: under 100,000 circulation) in the 2013 Column Writing Competition for the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. (The winner for over 100,000 was the late Roger Ebert. What an honor to be his bookend!)
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Cable TV Show: It's All Write With Suzette
It's All Write With Suzette is a half-hour show about the craft of writing where well-known authors, columnists, and bloggers share their works and writing process. Discover tips and insights into various genres of writing, such as mystery, sports, humor, biography and more. Originally aired on Milton (MA) Cable Access TV, find on-line episodes on vimeo and youtube by searching "Suzette Standring." Here are some sample shows:
Award winning mystery writer HALLIE EPHRON talks about There Was An Old Woman SportsCenter 5 BOB HALLORAN talks about Impact Statement: A Family's Fight for Justice Against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and The FBI Sports writer MIKE VEGA of the Boston Globe shares stories about covering famous athletes.
With humorist Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, original writer for Saturday Night Live, at the 2013 National Society of Newspaper Columnists' conference in Hartford. They co-authored the book, Lunatics. Dave received the NSNC's Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award and was introduced by his good friend, Alan.