The first success of the year

Yay, I'm getting something published this year. A few months ago, I entered a short story competition for a website called Parenting Express (http://www.parentingexpress.com/). They were asking for a short piece around 900 words exploring an aspect of parenting the 0-5 year old age group. I decided to put together some of my thoughts about the first year of my son's life. Not long after he was born, we all moved to Hanoi, Vietnam for my partner's work. That first year of taking on the life of a mother as well as an ex pat was a challenging one. The words flowed fairly easily and I could have quite happily kept writing. I finished the piece and sent it in.

Down the track, I was informed that I wasn't shortlisted. Oh well, onto the next thing. Recently however I received an interesting email. My piece had just missed out on taking a place but the judges were so impressed that they'd like to publish it anyway. In 'My Child' magazine. Woo hoo. So look out for the May edition of 'My Child' magazine and you'll see my little piece. Unfortunately no payment accompanies this achievement. Instead I have a two year subscription to the magazine. Who said writing is a mug's game?