For Immediate Release

February 17, 2004

CONTACT: MONICA HASKELL
305-295-4369, 305-304-5635
Monica@keysarts.com

 

Local Writer Receives Award

Writer D. Cricket Desmarais has been selected as the $2,000 winner of the 2005 Key West Writers Guild award administered by Florida Keys Council of the Arts.

Her manuscript in progress, titled One Hundred Fires, was reviewed by an independent panel and judged the best in the field of submissions. The Key West Writers Guild award is an annual award supported by private donations to the Florida Keys Council of the Arts..

Desmarais, thirty-four, is a writer, dancer, waitress and a charter boat captain. One Hundred Fires takes place primarily in Key West during the Depression and the years that follow.