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We Have A Winner: Donna Minkowitz

Update: we have a winner!

I am delighted to announce the first winner and recipient of my writing and publishing school scholarship, sponsored by Nancy Snyder.

Allow me to introduce Donna Minkowitz. Many of us came to know Donna as a rule-breaking journalist at The Village Voice in the late 80s and 90s. This was at a time when almost all gay and lesbian reporters were in the closet. She went undercover into the craziest Christian moral majority groups ever, and came back to report the political chaos that haunts us to this day. She wrote a piece on Matthew Shepard few of us will ever forget, and later, her story on Brandon Teena is what inspired the film Boys Don’t Cry. I am a regular reader of her blog.

Donna wrote me that she is working on a new novel different from anything her readers have seen before. Perfect.

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