CL’s Thomas Wheatley takes second place in national journalism contest
June 29, 2009 at 1:49 pm by Mara Shalhoup in Inside CL
Thomas Wheatley’s kick-ass cover story about his battle with alcoholism, “Sober,” was named the second-best feature story in the country at the Association of Alternative Newsweekly’s annual conference this past weekend. Yay Thomas!
The AAN awards are the most prestigious for the nation’s altweeklies.
The other winners in the Feature Story category for 2008 were Westword’s “The Good Soldier” (first place), Westword’s “Father of Invention” (third place), Houston Press’s “Mental Anguish” (honorable mention), and L.A. Weekly’s “From Silver Lake to Suicide” (honorable mention).
Our sister papers Washington City Paper and Chicago Reader took home a whopping five and two AAN awards, respectively. Congrats, guys!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Second place, Wheatley? You were robbed!
But seriously, woo hoo, congratulations!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
This has made my day!It could not have happened to a better fellow.Keep the words flowing.
Swella
June 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Many thanks, Jade, and, uhm, mom. ;)
June 29th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Congrats – always enjoy your work.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Many thanks, Adam.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
That was some BS from the judges.
Still a great story!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I am disappointed too. In Thomas. If you ain’t first, you’re last. Maybe next time, killer.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
:-)
July 12th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Congrats bro! Sorry it took so long, couldn’t figure out how to congrat a 2nd place loser. :-)
July 12,2009…