Tweten wins gold award for garden writing
Published 12:29 pm Friday, October 26, 2012
KINGSTON — Kingston Community News columnist Wendy Tweten won a Gold Award for Best Magazine Writing in the Garden Writers Association 2012 Media Awards (www.gardenwriters.org). She won for the column, “The VooDoo Garden: Good Help is Hard to Find,” which was published by WestSound Home & Garden magazine. The column is republished with permission in this edition of KCN.
It’s the third year she’s been honored by the Garden Writers Association. In 2009, she received a Silver Award for Newspaper Writing for “Miss Snippy Patronizes the Plant Sales,” published in Northwest Garden News. In 2008, she received a Gold Award for Best Electronic Media Writing for the article “Wendy Tweten’s Top Ten,” published on www.rainyside.com; and a Silver Award for Newspaper Writing for “Miss Snippy derides again,” published in the Kingston Community News.
Tweten (www.wendytweten.com) writes On Kingston Time for the Kingston Community News and writes regularly for WestSound Home & Garden. Miss Snippy, Tweten’s opinionated alter-ego, can be found in Northwest Garden News. Tweten has also written for Master Gardener magazine, Rainy Side Gardening, Home by Design magazine, and Organic Gardening.
