Lottery Win Gives British Women Writers A Voice
by Anonymous

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17-2002

Yorkshire writer Dawn Maria France became a lottery winner in her own right recently.The young writer received funding for a Yorkshire Women's Magazine through the Leeds Safer communities Millennium Awards, a £200m programme of grants funded by the Millennium Commission and distributed by Leeds City Council. Dawn Maria received the grant to cover print cost and stationery.

She is now working on her fourth issue and says things are going well. She continues: "I still have to pinch myself, I can't believe an ordinary person like me could be party to such an award, my magazine is produced in A5 format, which is easier to fit in women's hand bags and the format is a winner, I have gained feed back from Spain Italy and India"

The Yorkshire Independent Women's Press aims at being a positive voice to fellow females across England, Dawn Maria explains: "The Magazine is produced three time a year and is an array of Women's experiences, it covers regional, national, local news stories, as well as offering a voice to new women writers, and long established writer. "I feel it is a celebration of women's experiences, a platform which is not often given to new Women writers across Yorkshire and the country on the whole, getting this funding is like winning the lottery to me it has shown me that dreams Can happen to ordinary people like me."

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