Since so many of you asked, here’s the text of my speech introducing Marc Kelly Smith, winner of the Distinguished Service Award from Lawyers for the Creative Arts: It is my honor to present LCA’s Distinguished Service Award to Marc Kelly Smith. (so what?) So what? So? He’s just the guru of the Chicago poetry […]
I am quite honored to tell you that I’ve been named Advertising Lawyer of the Year for Illinois by Best Lawyers, a peer-reviewed publication. This is their press release: PRESS RELEASE (Available for immediate release) Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Mary Hutchings Reed as the […]
The Pirates Alley Faulkner Society named WARMING UP to the SHORT LIST for the William Wisdom/William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. SALUTING THE SUN and MARKERS were both named to the LONG LIST for the same Prize. A short story, OH, about care-taking and letting go, was named a SEMI-FINALIST in the same competition’s SHORT […]
Just got word that next year, the TAMPA REVIEW will pubilsh “THIS CHANGE DON’T COME FROM SKY,” a quirky short story about, well, about, about…
I am both humbled and pleased to announce that I will receive the Esther Rothstein Award from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois on January 21. Friends Chris Albright and Paula Holderman nominated me for this award which “recognizes women for having demonstrated visionary approaches to their professional accomplishments, while freely giving back to other […]
