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…and we have some great news regarding Elizabeth Crowens.

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Congratulations to Elizabeth on the grant she received from the City Artist Corps, a New York City group sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Elizabeth used the proceeds of the grant to publish NEW YORK: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst.  The grant recognize the contributions of New York based artists.  We couldn’t be happier for her!

Cover of Give me your best or your worst by Elizabeth Crowens with four black and white pictures in a stripe across the front

You can see some of her Award Winning photography in her book Give Me Your Best or Your Worst: an Anthology and Celebration of the Big Apple, which is currently entered for competition in the Shorts Award (deadline 12/31/21).

Give Me Your Best or Your Worst features photos of and stories and writing from people such as Reed Farrel Coleman, Richie Narvaez, Barbara Krasnoff, Tom Straw, Steven Van Patten, Charles Salzberg, Marco Conelli, Randee Dawn, R.J. Koreto, Triss Stein, and, of course, Elizabeth Crowens. It’s a truly incredible portrait of  Crowens’ vision of New York told in photos, fiction, and the perfect amount of poetry. You can find it here.

Crowens with Chanticleer

When not working on art photography books, Crowens writes Hollywood suspense and speculative Fiction, and her book, Silent Meridian, won first place in the Chanticleer Goethe Awards.

You can see her books reviewed by Chanticleer right here:

In addition to being a First Place Winner for the Goethe Awards, Crowens also took home a First Place Blue Ribbon for the 2020 Mark Twain Awards for her book Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead. 

Currently, she’s on the following Long Lists for the 2021 CIBAs:

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Thank you for reading this Chanticleer Spotlight Article on Elizabeth Crowens.

ALSO — Still time to get YOUR Short Story and/or Short Story Collections into the 2021 CIBAs. 

Submission Deadline is December 31, 2021.

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The 2020 Overall Grand Prize Winner was Rebecca Dwight Bruff for her book Trouble the Water

The 202 Best Book Grand Prize Badge for Trouble the Water by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

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Our 10th Anniversary Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22) will be June 23-26, 2022, where our 2021 CIBA winners will be announced. Space is limited and seats are already filling up, so sign up today!  CAC22 and the CIBA Ceremonies will be hosted at the Hotel Bellwether in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. Sign up and see the latest updates here!