I’m so grateful to have the support of writer, editor, friend, blogger and, as it used to say on her business card–(it may still)–bon vivant and ranconteur, Author! Author!, Anne Mini.  If you’ve ever wondered  whether you should go to a writers’ conference, Anne Mini would be #1 on my Top Ten List.  We met...Read More

I’m going to start blogging!  The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin asked me to contribute to their Nonbillable Hours page once a month (4th Fridays), which will give me a chance to write  about something I am very interested in, and have come to know a lot about:  making the transition from being a legal writer...Read More

Many have asked for my remarks at the Promotion Marketing Association Law Conference honoring Steve Durchslag, with whom I practiced law for 35 years. Here you go: IT IS MY PLEASURE TODAY TO INTRODUCE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER STEPHEN P. DURCHSLAG, SPUD, TO THOSE OF US WHO KNOW HIM WELL. WHEN I STARTED PRACTICING LAW...Read More

My story, “FISHING,” won 63rd place in the Writers Digest Short Story competition. I’m told the top 100 is a fair accomplishment, given the thousands of stories received. Am always pleased when someone reads and likes one of my stories!!Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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…Read More

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...Read More

Many of you have asked for a copy of my remarks to the WBA on the occasion of the Rise Up Reach Back luncheon. Roughly, here they are: I am both humbled and very pleased to receive this award from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. I am particularly honored to be in the company...Read More