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Angela Townsend [1]

Listed as: 
Creative Nonfiction Writer
Bio: 

Angela Townsend is the Development Director at a cat sanctuary, where she bears witness to mercy for all beings. She has an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary and B.A. from Vassar College.

Angie has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 34 years, laughs with her poet mother every morning, and delights in the moon. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with two shaggy seraphs disguised as cats.

Angie loves life dearly.

Favorite authors: 
Anne Lamott, Brian Doyle, Madeleine L'Engle, Henri Nouwen, Kathleen Norris, Dave Barry, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, John O'Donohue, Elizabeth Gilbert
Twitter/X: 
TheWakingTulip
Website: 
https://belovedmoonchild.wordpress.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

Five-Time Pushcart Prize Nominee
Seven-Time Best of the Net Nominee
Best Small Fictions Nominee
Grand Prize Winner, West Trade Review's 2024 704 Prize for Flash Fiction
First Place, READ Magazine 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contest
Third Place, 2024 Light4PH Pen-3 Prize in Storytelling
Winner, 2024 Bacopa Literary Review Creative Nonfiction Award
Third Prize, 2024 Witcraft Annual Humour CompetitionNominee, 2023 Best Spiritual Literature
First Place, 2023 Honeyguide "Black Cats are Good Luck" Story Contest
Second Place, 2023 Northwind Writing Award, Fiction
Fifth Place, 2023 Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition, Inspirational/Spiritual
October 2023 Moon Prize, Writing in a Woman's Voice
First Place, MEMEZINE "weird little guys" contest

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/angela_townsend [2] https://belovedmoonchild.wordpress.com/