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When Words Count Book Contest

Mary Keating
4 min readOct 27, 2023
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Happy to report that my poetry book, Recalibrating Gravity, a memoir in verse, won When Words Count Pitch Week 28th. When I received my gold medal from When Words Count, Steve Eisner, the founder of the WWC Pitch Week Competition, included a lovely handwritten note.

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Mary Keating

MaryKeatingpoet.com Lawyer, disability advocate, Wheelchair rider. Published in SFWP, Sixfold, Scribes Micro Fiction (Poetry Editor). 2x Pushcart nominee.