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Heather Brown Barrett
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Awards/Readings/Events

Local Authors Meet & Greet - Books for Mom Event

Blue Sky Distillery

Thursday May 8th, 2025, 6-8 pm

17466 Benns Church Blvd Smithfield, VA 23430

Meet me and other local Hampton Roads authors and find some books for Mother's Day!

Blue Sky Distillery

Spring into Reading

Books for the WIN - Water in Every Room is one of the featured books for WOW! Women on Writing's Spring into Reading Giveaway!

Giveaway runs from May 1 to May 22, 2025.

Link below for more about the giveaway details, the featured books, and to enter:

Spring Into Reading Giveaway | WOW! Women On Writing Blog 

Book Launch

Book launch celebration for Water in Every Room

Sunday May 4th, 2025, 2-4 pm

at The Muse Writers Center 

2200 Colonial Ave Suite 3

Norfolk, VA 23517


Come enjoy refreshments, a poetry reading, and meet the author!

Book signing and Q&A. 

Muse website: The Muse Writers Center

Feature at Yellow Arrow Blog

Read the Yellow Arrow Her View Friday blog post about Water in Every Room - April 4, 2025

Her View Friday — Yellow Arrow Publishing 

Editor's Choice Award

Poem "Storybook of Heavenly Bodies" received the Editor's Choice Award and publication at formidable Woman sanctuary for the fall 2024 - spring 2025 solace issue

Spring 2025: solace iv – formidable woman sanctuary

(scroll down on the page for my poem)


"Storybook of Heavenly Bodies" was also a finalist (CNF prose form) for the WOW! Women on Writing Q2 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest March 2025. 

WOW! Women on Writing Contests: Flash Fiction and Essay Contest

Poetry on the Trail

Poem "Opportunists" viewable on the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail as part of the Poetry On The Trail project.

The Poetry On The Trail mission is to deepen our connection to the environment through the intersection of poetry and nature.

Poetry Tea & Reading

Gather your favorite poems to exchange and join me at the Great Neck Area Library for tea and refreshments and a poetry reading! Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 3:30pm.

To register and for details:

Poetry Tea | Virginia Beach Public Library (librarymarket.com) 

Poetry Featured in Art Exhibit

Poems "Monolith" and "Come Full Circle" on view (next to beautiful artworks!) in the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Everyone Has a Story exhibit.

December 14, 2023 - February 3, 2024

Everyone Has A Story – Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts 

View SCCA's opening reception photo album on Facebook

First Place Award

"Monolith" awarded First Place for Poetry at the Hampton Roads Writers 15th Annual Conference - November 2023

Nomination

"Baby Boy, Born at 34 Weeks" nominated by The Ekphrastic Review for the 2024 Best of the Net literary awards.

Best of the Net Nominations 2024 - The Ekphrastic Review 

Reading of "Growing a Mother" (at about 24:43)

From Moments in Time: An UpSpring Reading by Yellow Arrow Publishing

Moments in Time: An UpSpring Reading by Yellow Arrow Publishing - YouTube 

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