I thank the founder of my first writer's group who told me to stop making excuses about why I was not writing. He told me that writers write, pure and simple. Now I pass this advice onto other beginning writers whenever I can.

Award for Humorous Column - Florida Press Association 2006 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest

Award for Serious Column - Florida Press Association 2006 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest

Honorable Mention - Editorial on Women's History, Community Papers of Florida, 2007

1st Place - POW! Promoting Outstanding Writers for Mainstream Fiction (Tortoise Stew)

1st Place- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Writing Contest, 2001

1st Place - 2001 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest, Serious
Column, Florida Press Association

2nd Place - 2002 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest, Serious Column, Florida Press Association

2nd Place - 2002 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest, Community Service for Drug Series,
Florida Press Association

Nominated by The High Springs Herald for a Pulitzer for drug series in 2003.

2001 - Woman of Distinction Award presented by the High Springs New Century Woman's Club

1998 - High Springs Chamber of Commerce, Citizen of the Year

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Patricia Behnke is the former editor-in-chief at Tower Publications.

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