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created by author
Helen Chappell

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Helen's Writing

JOURNALISM
Oysterback, a monthly column of short-short fiction about the Eastern Shore, appeared in the Baltimore Sun, where it had a loyal following. My features and news stories appear in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the (Easton, MD) Star-Democrat and (Cambridge, MD) Banner Newspapers, where I was editor and reporter for Chesapeake Bay Banner. My monthly column appears in Tidewater Times.

MAGAZINES
I have been a contributor to The Washington Post , The Baltimore Sun,
Chesapeake Bay Magazine, New Bay Times and Tidewater Times. My regional features have also appeared in Annapolis, Maryland and Kaleidoscope magazines. My fiction has appeared in A Common Reader, Potomac Review and Shore Journal.

THEATER
Oysterback (Playwright, co-producer)
Premiered at the Church Hill Theater, April,1994. It toured regionally under the direction and production of Pack Mule Productions.

BROADCAST
My commentaries have played on National Public Radio.
Oysterback: The Radio Play debuted November 1994 on WKHS, Public Radio.

BOOKS

NON-FICTION

• The Waxing Moon, 1974
• The Chesapeake Bay Book of the Dead, 1999

FICTION

• Oysterback Spoken Here
• The Oysterback Tales
• A Whole World of Trouble (working title) - in progress for Simon and
  Schuster
• Acts of Love
• Passions
• All Things in Their Season

MYSTERIES

• Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death
• Dead Duck, Fawcett
• Ghost of a Chance
• Get the Ghost

HISTORICAL NOVELS
(under the pseudonym Rebecca Baldwin)

• A Royal Visit
• A Tangled Web
• A Lady of Fashion
• Dartwood's Daughters
• Arabella and the Beast
• Lady Scandal, NYC
• The Dollar Duchess
• A Season Abroad
• A Matter of Honor
• A Very Simple Scheme
• A Sandition Quadrille
• Peerless Theodosia
• The Matchmakers
• The Cassandra Knot
• A Gentleman from Philadelphia
  (under the pseudonym Caroline Brooks)
• A Sea Change
• Regency Rose
• The Runaway Princess
• Marchman's Lady
• An Old Scandal

Awards:

• Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Fellowship,1971,1983
• Living With Alzheimer's , (Chesapeake Bay Banner) Best Feature in a Newspaper; American Association of Medical Writers, 1991
• Nominated Best Feature Story of the Year, Association of Regional Magazine Publishers, 1993,1994
• Grant for Chesapeake Bay Book of the Dead, received from Sumner T. McKnight Foundation, 1994,1995
• Grant to produce play, Maryland State Arts Council,1994. Jane Award, Jane Austen Society of Maryland, 1994. Manderley Award, 1995
• Maryland State Arts Council Fiction Grant (Three Short Stories), 1997
• A.E. Emmart Award for Excellence in Maryland Writing on the Humanities, (Pond Succumb, Washington Post) 1997