About Sharon​

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Sharon Cairns Mann quietly creates space where you are welcomed and respected as a reader. You’ll be rewarded by the poignant stories, and gritty, quirky characters of an inspired writer with a surprising range.
  
Sharon is an award-winning author and highly experienced professional writer. She snagged her first paid writing assignment while still in college, and has been writing and editing ever since. She has had hundreds of writing assignments, including newsletters, speeches, advertisements, direct mail, trade show collateral, product literature and web content. She recently finished writing an innovative blog called "Swindled," a combination of expose, investigative journalism, and personal narrative.  She has also written more than 70 web content assignments for commercial sites.  Sharon is an expert in inbound marketing, and all forms of writing.  

In addition to her commercial work, she has written a novel, and has been published in both fiction and nonfiction, winning multiple awards (please see the "awards" page for details).  She is known as a craft-oriented literary writer, and in particular for her taut prose in short fiction. 

Seeking an Agent...

Sharon is seeking an agent for a charming, completed children's book manuscript.  If you are an agent interested in a 500-word Picture Story Book for ages 3-7, please contact me.

Seeking an Illustrator...

Sharon is seeking an illustrator for a fabulous, quirky, fun children's book manuscript.  If you are a children's illustrator interested in a 500-word Picture Story Book for ages 3-7, please contact me.

CIPA EVVY Merit Award Winner!​

"Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story" is a Merit Award Winner in the Colorado Independent Publishers Association's (CIPA) EVVY Awards for 2016 in the "Fiction-Contemporary/Literary" category. Winners were announced on August 20, 2016.   Award winners list is available here. 

Most Recent Work

​Sharon's latest work is a collection of short fiction entitled ​Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story, which ​came out in the fall of 2015 (Alacrity House Publishing, LLC).
Two of the stories in Tesserae were finalists in the Colorado Authors' League Annual Awards contest for 2016:  "Cowboy Heart" and "Knife River Flint."  Please read the "news" below to see which one won!

Sharon has a B.A. in English  and an M.A. in Communication, and has taught public speaking for C.U. on and off since 1992.  If you want to learn from a published professional who has a proven track record in teaching, writing, and selling her work, then Sharon is the perfect choice as writing coach or instructor.  (Go to the "contact" tab in this website to connect with Sharon.)
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Sharon's greatest joy is living creatively, and this is reflected in her lifetime of writing and her years of designing, building, birthing, and breathing life into Villa Jubilee (see www.villajubilee.com).  

For more information, please check out Sharon's Facebook and Amazon Author pages.

​Colorado Authors League Award

"Knife River Flint," published in Rozlyn: Short Fiction for Women and Tesserae: A Mosaic of Story in 2015, was a Puschart nominee and won the Colorado Author's League (CAL) 2016 Annual Award for Short Fiction.  You can read about the award here.  Congratulations to all the CAL winners!

Interviews!

"Off the Page" TV Interview with Broomfield Library Librarian Stacey McKenzie

Stacey does an awesome job of interviewing Colorado authors.Click here to watch this great interview with Sharon! #notboring #offthepage
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KUHS Interview with Laura Padgett (May 2017)

If you missed my interview with Laura Padgett Friday, May 12, 2017, here it is. Great information on how to write well for any writer at any stage of your writing adventure.  Thanks, Laura, for your encouraging  heart and willingness to promote writers! ​Click here for interview.

KUHS Interview with Laura Padgett (Jan 2017)

Listen in!  Here's a link to the "The Artists Nook" interview, Friday, January 6, 2017, 2:00 pm on www.kuhsdenver.com. 
​Hear Sharon and host Laura Padgett discuss literary fiction and the meaning of faith-based fiction. #notboring #artistsnook

Watch the Book Beat Video!

Sharon was one of the featured authors for the CAL Book Beat at the Denver Press Club on April 22, 2016.   It’s worth watching the first two minutes, where @DenverPressClub is introduced. Sharon is the last of four authors to be interviewed. Obviously, you can watch the whole thing if you want, but if you’re short on time and want to skip to Sharon's part, it starts at 34:15. Check it out, especially if you’re interested in #shortfiction.  #bookbeat #notboring
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Recent Activity: Awards and Readings

Sharon won the Colorado Author's League contest in Short Fiction for "Pockets," announced in May 2015.  Read about the contest and awards at the Colorado Author's League website or the Denver Post.

Sharon's short story entitled "Pockets," is included in the juried anthology Progenitor Art & Literary Journal 2014. The Progenitor is the beautifully produced journal of Arapahoe Community College, published once a year. 

"Pockets" is flash fiction, less than 1000 words, and is a masterful example of short story writing, with a lovely twist at the end. The judges said, "Lovely story, quiet and simple at first, but it grows. We get a trim sketch of a woman with unexpected depth."

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