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Charles Miess's Past Columns

Charles Miess has written columns for Maryland 20878^® and for Word Worth–World Magazine of Ideas and the Arts^®.

One of his first columns on Word Worth, "A Journey into Darkness," was the recipient of the Apex Grand Award for Excellence in Writing–a distinguished award indeed. The Apex judges had this to say about Miess's column:
"What a beautiful story, riveting, with powerful imagery and a warm, inviting style that draws you in and won't let you go. A marvelous example of wordcraft."

Miess won a second Apex Award for "The Robbery," a column that appeared in Word Worth in 2004, and a third Apex Award in 2006 for his 2005 Word Worth Column, "Something Borrowed." In 2007, Miess won an Apex Award for his column linked below, "Superlatives Grow as the Standards Go." He was also a contributor to the May 2006 issue of Word Worth which won an Apex Award for the entire issue.

In addition to his interest in writing, Miess is a Senior Reliability Engineer for an international air and space company.

Charles Miess's past column is available here in Adobe files. Click on the links below to access the Adobe files. If you do not have Adobe on your computer, you can download a free copy here:

Geeks and the Piano Man December 2005
African Gold February 2006
African Gold II March 2006
The Water Glass April 2006
Low Tide May 2006
Superlatives Grow as the Standards Go July 2006
Sharing a Fire December 2006 in Viewpoints
The Color Red January 2007 in Viewpoints
Worlds Apart February 2007 in Viewpoints
Introducing Lauren Kingsland April 2007 in Viewpoints
Grandfather's Christmas Tree December 2007 in Viewpoints
Looking for Writers January 2008 in Columns
Writing: Defining the Problem February 2008 in Columns
Uncovering Buried Verbs March 2008 in Columns

...continued from the Viewpoints page:

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