Re: Quill and Trowel

**"Doreen Howard" d*@ticon.net**

I agree with Andrew.  When I wrote a weekly newspaper garden column in
Texas, I, too, entered it in that nebulous 1B "Newspaper" category and never
won a thing.  But, my column won the Best Newspaper Column award in Texas,
given by the Texas Newspaper Assoc., from 1994 to 1998. Plus, it won
Associated Press awards in 1996 & 1997.  I didn't compete with the Dallas
Morning News with its huge budget and special magazine garden sections, for
instance, because there was a circulation category breakdown for
competition.  It would only be fair to do the same with Garden Globe Awards,
too.  The lack of an even playing field in many of the categories is one of
the reasons I no longer enter the competition.
Doreen Howard

----- Original Message -----
From: <Hamptongar@aol.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: [GWL] Quill and Trowel

> Every year when I get what is now known as the "Garden Globe Award" entry
> form I cringe and my blood pressure goes up.  Since I write a weekly
column
> for a weekly newspaper the only category I can enter in is 1B "Newspaper."
> Now this strikes me as a little absurd since it pits me against (or in the
> same group as) writers who have actual budgets, can work full time on
stories
> and have virtually limitless resources if they work for a daily paper
that's
> a major or part of a chain or syndicate.  Why don't we have a level
playing
> field and at the very least divide this group into dailies and weeklies?
> There are other logical groupings that state newspaper groups have and are
> sometimes based on circulation.  My paper regularly wins top New York
State
> Press Association competitions but we compete against similar papers and
not
> large circulation dailies.  But how in the world can my work be evaluated
in
> the same light as a piece that might appear in The New York Times or
> Washington Post?  Is it just me and my warped sense of fairness?
>
> Andrew Messinger
> The Hampton Gardener
> The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark
> (Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)
>

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