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JMZ and a third Parenting Publications of America award, in different category


Well, this was a surprise. As usual, I had no idea of being entered and I still don’t know what exactly was entered.

But learning of this great award for Wendy Hoke and her compatriots’ work reminded me to check the Parenting Publications Awards for 2007.

Sure ‘nough – after winning for Personal Essay Writing in 2004 (Gold) and 2005 (Gold, but in a different circulation level) and I can’t remember if I won anything in 2006 but I don’t think so, this year, it’s a Bronze in a different category:

E10 – Column: Humor

30,001-54,999 (circulation)
Bronze: Cleveland Family; Jill Miller Zimon, writer, Julie Hanahan, David Sullivan
Helpful hints mixed with carefree observations about parenting give these columns their flair. Dynamic writing that gives readers the sense they’re in the same room with the author makes for interesting reading.

Frankly, I’ve never been exactly sure how you distinguish between “humor” and “personal essay” – I know for sure that some of mine are definitely not humor, and most of them are personal. But that’s why we have editors, like Julie!

Thanks to them (and Frances Richards for giving me my start in 2003) for submitting my work, paying me for it and most of all, giving me the opportunity to do it for the fifth year. I can’t believe it.

You can find the Cleveland Family publications at NEOhioFamily.com.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:21 pm March 11th, 2008 in Announcements, Blogging, Media, Ohio, Parenting, Writing 

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11 Responses to “JMZ and a third Parenting Publications of America award, in different category”

  1. 1 Cynthia Samuels on March 11th, 2008 4:39 pm

    Congratulations! Impressed but not surprised. I’d post on the Spitzer post too but I just don’t want to talk about these things anymore. At all.

  2. 2 Joe Amschlinger on March 11th, 2008 4:42 pm

    You’ve had a better day than Eliot. Congrats JMZ!

  3. 3 Carole Cohen on March 11th, 2008 6:27 pm

    Jill what I liked about the award write up was the part about feeling like you are in the same room when you write; that is spot on. Congratulations!

  4. 4 Terry on March 11th, 2008 8:04 pm

    Congratulations! A well deserved honor.

  5. 5 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 8:41 pm

    Thanks a lot. Grinning big grin, making cheeks warm and copying and pasting into that “bad day” folder for when I need to remember a few people said some nice things about me or my writing, or maybe even…both. :) Thanks for reading and commenting, always.

  6. 6 Joel Libava on March 11th, 2008 9:00 pm

    Congrats Jill1
    Mr. Spitzer called me.To congratulate you…. He now wants to sell you a car..
    {Thought I was talking about The OTHER Spitzer, huh}
    JL

  7. 7 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 9:04 pm

    I’d rather he just send me $4300 but he’d want something in return, wouldn’t he?

  8. 8 Joel Libava on March 11th, 2008 9:09 pm

    Spitzer Rule:
    No Shiksa’s
    JL

  9. 9 Jill Miller Zimon on March 11th, 2008 9:11 pm

    For $4300, he can call me Joan of Arc for all I care. Better yet, he can just send the cash to my kids’ orthodontist and skip meeting me.

  10. 10 Joel Libava on March 11th, 2008 9:18 pm

    Whats a few thousand amongst our Tribe?
    JL

  11. 11 Jill Miller Zimon on March 12th, 2008 11:37 am

    Apparently my editor didn’t even know about it. lol too much

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