The National Association of Baby Boomer Women (
www.NABBW.com) and
www.BoomerWomenSpeak.com, has opened entries to all baby boomer women for a new writing contest; "
Entering YOUR Age of Elegance." This contest offers women an opportunity to write their personal stories about entering midlife and beyond.
According to author
Chloe Jon Paul who wrote,
Entering the Age of Elegance - A Rite of Passage & Practical Guide for the Modern Maturing Woman, this second adulthood reaches us around age forty and if this "rite of passage" isn't done with style and grace, we can become disoriented and lose our way.
Dotsie Bregel, founder and CEO of the
National Association of Baby Boomer Women, says, "With age comes wisdom, and that wisdom is carried over into midlife. We want to encourage baby boomers everywhere to enter this contest and share their journey. By doing so, we can read first hand how other women are learning new life skills and better ways to cope and to embrace the changes going on around us, and to us. Many baby boomers are discovering who they really are for the first time in their lives!"
Bregel continues with, "By entering this contest and telling us what the
Age of Elegance means to you, we believe our mission of educating, empowering, and enlightening baby boomer women will be held strong. In this contest, women are asked to tell us; what does the
Age of Elegance mean to you at this time in your life? Does it mean fulfillment? Exploration? Discovery? Rebirth? Reinvention? Where has this midlife journey taken you? We've already discovered what an exciting time this is in our lives … now we are offering women the opportunity to write about it; to expand upon their journey and to share it with others."
Bregel expects the NABBW contest to stir up a wide range of emotions and anticipates receiving entries from baby boomers from one end of the spectrum to the other. All boomer-age (born 1946-1964) women are invited to submit their essay to Dotsie Bregel at
contest@nabbw.com, with Age of Elegance in the subject line. Entries must be 500 words or less, in a WORD document, and emailed as an attachment by the May 31, 2009 deadline. Contestants
should include the author's name, email address and short bio (75 words or less) at the top of the attached Word document – and not in the body of the email. The winner of the
Age of Elegance contest will receive
$100 and a
free membership (or free renewal of their membership)
in the National Association of Baby Boomer Women. Additionally, the winning story will appear in the "Our Voices" section at BoomerWomenSpeak, an affiliate Web site of the NABBW. To learn more about this contest and to read the full guidelines, visit the NABBW contest page.
About Dotsie Bregel, founder of the National Association of Baby Boomer Women Since launching NABBW in 2005, and Boomer Women Speak in 2002, Dotsie Bregel has become the expert journalists seek on Boomer women's issues. Bregel has been mentioned in Time magazine, LA Times, AARP Bulletin and dozens of newspapers, plus radio and television shows including CBS The Early Show with Dave Price.
About the National Association of Baby Boomer Women The NABBW offers a, hearty
membership package, an electronic
Resource Library devoted to empowering and educating women worldwide, pertinent
teleseminars, a
warm panel of experts, and many other
benefits.
Join the NABBW now and be embraced by the only association devoted to addressing topics concerning 38 million of the healthiest, wealthiest and best educated women to ever hit midlife. The
NABBW empowers Boomer women to explore their passions and live life to the fullest. Visit their sister site,
BoomerWomenSpeak.com where you'll find wise, warm, and witty women engaged in over 60 forums 24/7.
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