Writer and Teller of Stories
In January 2020 I submitted three works to the Royal Palm Literary Awards sponsored by the Florida Writers’ Association.
Two of these works have made it to the Finals:
“Florida Dreamin’,” unpublished creative non-fiction, which tells the story of my grandfather’s work for the Federal Writers’ Project during the Depression, and The Moores, the Merriers, Part IV of The Magnolia Arms Chronicles, in the published literary fiction category.
The FWA sent this badge to share.
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
