Honor Roll for Excellence in Cancer Writing
My greatest revelation in starting a “blogroll” for Being Cancer was the quality of writing that I found week after week. I started printing examples of this writing as our Guest Post feature, one of the most popular and widely read features on our site. For the most part these are not professional writers. They are just folks who started blogs and were somehow able to connect deeply with what they were experiencing as cancer survivors. They were then able to convey the depth of that experience in elegant, moving prose. Excellent, compelling writing has always been my sole criteria for selection.
The following blogs are highly recommended for your attention. In order to honor these bloggers we have created the Award Badge above. Bloggers who choose to do so may display this badge on their site. Watch the Honor Roll as it grows from week to week.
** HONOR ROLL **
- The Adventures of BaldyLocks- Leukemia – AML
- Ahh Life – Lymphoma – t cell
- american amazon
- Amber Chase’s Musings on Cancer and Life - Home- inflammatory breast cancer
- Amber’s Journey - breast cancer
- Ang’s Journey – colon cancer
- Appendix Cancer Survivor’s Blog
- Ashley: Warrior Mom
- Babies or Not – breast cancer
- Barefoot and Laughing – melanoma
- Beauty for Ashes – kidney cancer
- The Blue Fairy’s Breast Cancer Blog
- Boo Bee Trap – breast cancer
- Borange – multiple myeloma
- The BRCA Diaries – breast cancer
- Brian Koffman’s Awesome Transplant and CLL Adventure – CLL
- BRICKS for Young Adults -
- Cancer: A Spiritual Journey - leukemia
- The Cancer Culture Chronicles- breast cancer
- Cancer Survivor Inspiration… – Leukemia
- Charlcie - thyroid cancer
- Cheer Me On! - sarcoma
- ChemoBabe! - breast cancer
- Cindy’s Multiple Myeloma Blog
- CLL Diary – Leukemia
- Crash Course Widow
- Colon Cancer Sucks Ass
- Curing Vancura -leukemia
- Dancing In Limbo - lymphoma
- Dancing on Thin Ice – leukemia
- Daughter of Cancer- glioblastoma
- Deludia
- Diary of a Cancer Patient - ovarian cancer
- The Dirty Pink UnderBelly - breast cancer
- dontwasteyourcancer – lymphoma
- The Edge of Light – by Christine Lynds – breast cancer
- Erik Ludwinski - neuroblastoma
- An Explorer’s View of Life - esophageal
- Get Out Gertrude! | My battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer and rediscovering normality
- Healing Art
- Heather’s Journey
- Heidi’s Hot Flashes – Ewings’s sarcoma
- I Kicked Cancer’s Ass - cervical cancer
- If Cancer Was Easy, They’d Call It Your Mom: My Journey with Ovarian Cancer
- I’m Still Here… – colon cancer
- It Is What It Is…. - ovarian cancer
- It’s My Turn to Kick Sarcoma’s Butt! – sarcoma
- Jen’s Cancer Fight - large B-cell lymphoma
- the journey | Life as I know it! – cervical cancer
- Julie’s Myeloma Moments
- Just a Young Mama Fighting Cancer – melanoma
- Keep Going! Blogging Breast Cancer
- life and breath: living with lung cancer
- Life In Transition – breast cancer
- life is sunny - breast cancer
- Life Out Loud – rectal cancer
- Life’s Funny Like That – breast cancer
- — Living Sunny Side Up – children and cancer
- Living with Head and Neck Cancer
- Lucysnoidblog - carcinoid cancer
- LUNG CANCER LIFE:
- Marilou’s reflections – breast cancer
- MAURA. Now what do I call this blog? – sarcoma
- Michelle WILL Win Against Colon Cancer
- CaringBridge.org – missmadelyn- neuroblastoma
- My life, in a Tumblr – breast cancer
- On My Way To Here - breast cancer
- oncRN
- Ooops…I’m still here - breast cancer
- Other Side Of Cancer - head and neck
- Our Oral Cancer Fight
- ovarian cancer?? pass the wine…now!
- Painting 2 cancers - thyroid and breast cancer
- Pete’s Blog – myeloma
- Radiation Daze
- Running for My Life: Fighting cancer one step at a time – Leukemia - AML
- Screw Cancer – I’m Peggy Luckey, Damn It! - colon cancer
- Somebody Stop the World - esophageal
- Sometimes I Think – lymphoma
- Tales of a papa’s girl – kidney cancer
- That Girl…tales from the edge – BRCA
- THE TONGUELESS TALK-Battling Oral Cancer
- Unravel Cancer: Experiences with family battling cancer – brain cancer
- Wardy’s Big Bad Blog - Hodgkin’s
- Why Her and Not Me? – skin cancer
- The World As I See It…. - adrenal cortical cancer
Dennis, I am honored by my inclusion. You continue to do a great service to all of us with cancer, and I am always pleased to see a referral from your site. Take care my friend! Linnea
I guess a list of excellence in writing would be subjective.;-)
This is the time of year when a lot of lists appear – the year’s best movies, books, videos, CDs, news stories, sports stories. All, like the Academy Awards, are subjective. The Honor Roll is likewise subjective. But rather than a definitive “Top Ten”, this is an on-going list, to be expanded as the work of more bloggers is recognized in the weeks and months to come. This is one of the reasons I plan to publish two Guest Posts per week instead of one. There is just too much good writing out there that cannot be ignored. Keep up your own great work. Take care, Dennis
So many of us cancer bloggers find it challenging to keep it up – is anyone reading my blog, am I reaching anyone new, am I helping ANYONE? Thank you so much for the work you do to both bring attention to us bloggers and to reward those who are doing it well. I am a frequent reader of many of the bloggers you highlight – and I couldn’t agree more! Thanks, Dennis.