My favorite place to write...at anchor in the Bras d'Or..

NEW! I SAY THE WORD wins third place in the SCRATCH Quarterly Short Story Contest. Read the story and learn about SCRATCH at www.scratch.com

NEW! Short story JUST PUSH PLAY appears in the newly released Freckles to Wrinkles anthology from Silver Boomer Books.Copies available on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com, Read an excerpt.

Flash Fiction story FIRST SIGHT won second place in Writer Advice's Third Annual Flash Prose Contest. Judges called it "a wise story about being careful what you wish for." It will run in the July-September issue of Writer Advice. Visit www.writeradvice.com to read the story online.

REASON TO BELIEVE, a true-life essay appears in Voices of Alcoholism, one of the five Voices of . . Healing Companions from The Healing Project and LaChance Publishing. Learn about the Voices of. . . series and future projects in progress at www.lachancepublishing.com. Read an excerpt

Short story WHEN MORE MEANS LESS appears in the Silver Boomer Anthology. Read an excerpt.

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Ginger B. Collins is a published author of short fiction and creative non-fiction that focuses on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Cruising World Magazine and Living Aboard Magazine have published her slice-of-wave sailing tales, and Ginger's travel articles have appeared in both The Atlanta Journal Constitution and The Cincinnati Inquirer, including a two-part story in the Inquirer about a trip to China in the middle of the SARS epidemic. Ginger's short stories have been selected for publication by LunchHour Stories Literary Magazine and Pig Iron Press, and the personal essay, REASON TO BELIEVE appears in Voices of Alcoholism one of the "Voices of" series published by LaChance Publishing.

Recently retired from Atlanta to the Canadian Maritimes, Ginger and husband Melvin spend most of their time on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Avid offshore sailors, they plan a retirement of sailing local anchorages and distant shorelines.

Connections to her roots in the Atlanta writing community are still strong. Ginger is a past board member and VP of Programming for the Atlanta Writers Club and stays active with the group as a marketing and PR consultant. She is a member of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia and participates in the Cape Breton writing community.