The Creative Cat - Tag Archive for "cat writers association"

Muse Medallions and a Special Award in the CWA Communications Contest

Published on November 5, 2013 in authors, award, cat writers association

Now that I’ve been there and back, I’m pleased to report that I’ve won two Muse Medallions in the 2013 Cat Writers’ Association Communications Contest, and I am also honored to have won a huge special award. You can read a bit about my visit to the conference on Friday

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Tags: art photography, awards, cat artwork, cat photographs, cat stories, cat writers association, cats, cwa, pets, writing

“The Creative Cat” Wins a CWA Certificate of Excellence

Published on September 21, 2013 in authors, award, cat writers association

I’m pleased to share the news that I’ve won a number of awards for my stories and images published on and originating on The Creative Cat in the 2013 Cat Writers’ Association Communications Contest. These awards are self-nominated so I chose what to enter. They are judged by a jury

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Tags: art photography, awards, cat artwork, cat photographs, cat stories, cat writers association, cats, cwa, pets, writing

I Am Honored

Published on October 18, 2012 in authors, award, cat writers association

I’m pleased to share the news that I’ve won a number of awards for my stories and images published on and originating on The Creative Cat in the 2012 Cat Writers’ Association Communications Contest. In fact, I’m a little shocked by the number of awards…a total of 13. These awards

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Tags: art photography, awards, cat artwork, cat photographs, cat stories, cat writers association, cats, cwa, pets, writing

In Good Company: Cat Writers’ Association Communication Contest Awards

Published on November 20, 2011 in animal artists and illustrators, animal artwork, animal rescue, books, cat writers association, commissioned portrait, conference/meeting, essay, great rescues calendar and gift book, pet loss

I couldn’t be in White Plains, NY, with all my fellow members of the Cat Writers’ Association (CWA) this Friday and Saturday, but I was there as much as possible in spirit, obsessively checking e-mail and Facebook to read news of what was happening in the workshops and social gatherings,

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Tags: a wonderful gift, awards, cat writers association, great rescues calendar and gift book, on dying and death and remembrance, the creative cat

Mail Call

Published on September 30, 2011 in animal artwork, cat artwork, cats, great rescues calendar and gift book, honor/award, photographs

Well, The Creative Cat has won a Certificate of Excellence in the Cat Writers Association (CWA) Communications Contest! Thank you, Namir, for inspiring me to do this! And so has Great Rescues as a gift book, as well as the illustrations and the notebook paper, “22 Cats” in the back

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Tags: award for blog, award for illustrations, cat artwork, cat writers association, cats, illustration, pets, photography, the creative cat, writing

A Sweet Award

Published on October 22, 2010 in backyard wildlife habitat, birds, cat artwork, cat poetry, cat stories, commissioned portrait, feline artwork, my household of felines, pastel painting, peaches, pet loss, poetry, senior cats

I was honored and excited to see that “Peaches and Peonies” had won a Certificate of Excellence in the illustration category for my line of feline art cards in the Cat Writer’s Association Annual Communication Contest. I also won another Certificate in the contest, for my poem “Pawprints and Raindrops”

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Tags: cat writers association, catnip chronicles, certificate of excellence, pawprints and raindrops, peaches the cat, pet loss, poetry, senior cats

Coming in July

Published on June 30, 2010 in adopting a cat, adopting a kitten, backyard, black cats, cat stories, cat writers association, feline artwork, feline health studies, feline infectious peritonitis, FIP, kittens, mimi's children, my household of felines, namir, peaches

July brings the anniversary of many things feline-related—losses, rescues, births, new artwork, and I’m looking forward to sharing the stories and related articles and information. I begin below with two losses, but read on, they turn into beautiful things. Namir Today as I compiled and packaged my entries for the

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Tags: cat writers association, chf, congestive heart failure in cats, declawing, feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, feline infectious peritonitis, FIP, hcm, trimming cats claws, uc davis

My Creative Process on “Buckley’s Story” by Ingrid King

Published on February 16, 2010 in cat artwork, my household of felines, pet portrait

As both an animal artist and photographer and a commercial artist and designer, my cats are my muse, even if they aren’t the subject of my creative endeavor. Ingrid King, author of Buckley’s Story, has featured me again on Buckley’s Story in “The Creative Process” as I get to offer

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Tags: animal art, animal artist, buckleys story, cat writers association, commissioned pet portraits, creative process, ingrid king, pet loss in the first person, the conscious cat, turning loss into creativity

Life Lessons My Cat Taught Me

Published on January 31, 2010 in books, books about cats dogs and animals, cat behavior

Sure, we start out with a kitten or puppy or bird or other animal companion juvenile or adult, and we think we need to teach them how to live with humans. In some important ways, we do teach them a few household manners, but in the end we who love

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Tags: allia zobel nolan, books about cats, cat writers association, humorous books about cats, lessons my cats taught me

Turning Loss into Creativity with Ingrid King and Buckley’s Story

Published on January 20, 2010 in books about cats dogs and animals, pet loss

Fifth in a series of “pet loss and grief told from personal experience” The loss of a pet brings a profound change to our life and our self, no matter what we do or who we are, but sometimes the loss and how we deal with it opens a door

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