Abilene Writers Guild in Abilene, Texas
August, 2010 - Members only monthly contest, Unrhymed Poetry:
First Place - "Westward Sail"
June, 2010 - Members only monthly contest, Unrhymed Poetry:
Second Place - "Stalker"
Honorable Mention - "Cyber Ghoul"
May, 2010 - Members only monthly contest, Unrhymed Poetry:
Honorable Mention - " Quick Silver"
April, 2010 - Members only monthly contest, Rhymed Poetry:
First Place - "Streamlined Credit"
March, 2010 - Annual Writing Contest, Inspirational
Third Place - "Choose Your Struggles"
Feb., 2010 - Members only monthly contest, Unrhymped Poetry:
First Place - "Bits-o-Honey"
Second Place - "Raspberry Gummies"
Honorable Mention - "Popcorn"
Sept., 2009 - Members only monthly contest, Rhymed Poetry:
Third Place - "Pink Noise"
July, 2009 - Members only monthly contest , Unrhymed Poetry:
Honorable Mention - "Westward Sail"
June, 2009 - Members Only Monthly Contest, Rhymed Poetry:
First Place - "Roadrunner Rhyme"
March, 2009 - Annual Writing Contest,
Inspirational, Second Place - "Mercy Waits"
Poetry, Honorable Mention - "Ella Rose Sees The Moon"
October, 2007 - Annual Writing Contest,
Children's ages 3-8, First Place - "Three Wishes"
Inspirational, Second Place - "Valentine's Day"
October, 2006 - Annual Writing Contest,
Children's ages 3-8, First Place - "Busy Day"
Alabama State Poetry Society in Montgomery, Alabama
April, 2010, Spring Poetry Contest,
Haiku Series Award - First Place for "gray clouds dull the sky"
Alabama Writers' Conclave Writing Competition in Huntsville, Alabama
June, 2010 - in Free Verse Poetry
Honorable Mention for " My Grandmother's House"
Albert Anthony Foundation's Word and Sound Creative Writing Contest in Columbus, Mississippi
in November, 2011, in Short Story -
Second Place for "The Second Christmas"
in October, 2010, in Poetry, Spiritual, Uplifting, Religious -
Fifth Place for "Panic"
October, 2009, in Poetry First Place Award of Distinction for "Earth"
Fourth Place Award of Valor for "Cactus"
Fourth Place Award of Valor for "Heaven"
Fourth Place Award of Valor for "Jazz Band"
Arkansas Writers Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas
June, 2011 -
in the Christian Poetry category,
Second Honorable Mention for "Sweet Fellowship"
for the Mildred McKinney Award,
Third Honorable Mention for "Render Unto Caesar"
Art Affair Poetry Contest, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
January, 2011
First Place for "Love Does the Hard Things"
February, 2010
Honorable Mention for "My Grandmother's House"
November, 2010
in "A Poem About Your Favorite Movie Star" category
Third Place for "Johnny Weissmueller as Tarzan"
in "The Life Goes On: Birth & Death" category
Second Honorable Mention for "Love Does the Hard Things"
Bay Area Writers League in Houston, Texas
August, 2010 - Poetry,
Third Place - "My Grandmother's House"
June, 2009 - Poetry,
Second Place - "Dickey"
Beginnings Magazine
July, 2003 - Poetry Contest,
Second Place - "Secrets"
April, 2004 -
Haiku Contest, Honorable Mention - "Blue Jeans"
August, 2003 -
Humorous Poetry, Honorable Mention - "Me"
Grandmother Earth 2009 Nat'l Writing Awards in Cordova, Tennessee
October, 2009,
In the Humor story category - Honorable Mention for "Skinny Munchies"
August, 2011,
In the Fiction category - First Place for "The Letter"
Green River Writers in Louisville, Kentucky
in November, 2011
in the Short Attention Span category, First Place for "Prayer in Pubic School"
in the Breath of Merton category, Third Place for "If Brother Lawrence Had Been Married"
in the Poems Written After Midnight category, Third Honorable Mention for "Secrets"
in the Poems Written After Midnight category, Second Honorable Mention for "Blackbird"
in the Persona Poem category, First Honorable Mention for "Widow's Walk"
in December, 2010
in the Persona Poem category Second Place for "The Widow's Mite"
in the Clear Creek Writers Honorable Mention for "Watch Where You Step"
Gulf Coast Writers Association in Gulfport, Mississippi
in May, 2011
in the annual "Let's Write" Literary Contest, Poetry division, First Place for "Diamondback"
High Prairie Poets New Mexico State Poetry Society Bi-Monthly Contest in Roswell, New Mexico
June, 2009 -
First Place - "Dickey"
Inspirit Literary Journal Poetry Contest in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania
December, 2006 -
First Runner-Up - "New Tricks"
Kentucky State Poetry Society Annual Contest in Lexington, Kentucky
September, 2010,
in the Foothill Writers Award First Place for "Open Heart Surgery"
September, 2009,
in the God's Love contest Second Place for "Breeze"
September, 2009, -
in the Moving On contest Third Place for "Who Will I Be?"
League of Minnesota Poets in Minneapolis, Minnesota
November, 2010,
in the Stepping Off A Cliff Award Third Place for "Westward Sail"
in the Lilian Osborn Memorial Award Award of Merit for "Open Heart Surgery"
October, 2009,
in the Woodtick Poets Award - Award of Merit for "The Kitchen Door"
Lucidity Poetry Journal in Houston, Texas
June, 2010 -
Honorable Mention - "My Grandmother's House"
February, 2007 -
Honorable Mention - "Reunion"
Massachusetts State Poetry Society in Lynn, MA
November, 2011, Annual Poet's Choice Contest
First Place for "What Calls Me Back"
October, 2010, National Poetry Day Contest
in the Celebration of Life Second Place for "Watch Where You Step"
in the Andy & Solie Award Contest Third Place for "Today We Plant"
in the Gertrude Callis Award Third Place for "It Takes a Big Man"
March, 2010, Of Thee I Sing Contest
Sixth Honorable Mention for "In Praise of Shade"
December, 2009, Arthur (Skip) Potter Memorial Contest
Second Honorable Mention for "Secrets"
December, 2009, Annual Poet's Choice Contest
First Honorable Mention for "Sail to California"
Sixth Honorable Mention for "My Grandmother's House"
Mississippi State Poetry Society in Madison, Mississippi
November, 2010,
in the Patricia Farvis Green Memorial Award Third Place for "Showtime!"
in the Myrtle Rae Davis Jones Mem. Award
Honorable Mention for "My Crazy Sister"
Missouri Poets and Friends in Fair Grove, Missouri
December, 2011, in the Free Verse Category, Second Place for "Widow's Walk"
Missouri State Poetry Society in Bolivar, Missouri
October, 2011, the Summer contest,
in the Summer Poem category, Second Place for "Texas Drought"
April, 2011, the Winter contest,
in the Free Verse category, Third Honorable Mention for "Open Heart Surgery"
in the Humorous category, First Place for "Watch Where You Step."
in the Winter Subject category, Third Place for "Texas Hill Country Winters."
December, 2011, Dr. Doris Mueller Poetry & Prose Contest
First Place for "Widow's Walk"
Northern Colorado Writers in Ft. Collins, Colorado
August, 2011, Annual Poetry Contest
First Place for "Diamondback"
Ohio Poetry Association - in Marion, Ohio
August, 2010, Poetry Day Contest
in the Greater Cincinnati Writers League First Place for "Spring Lovers"
in the Welcome Aboard Award Co-First Place for "Fresh Baked Bread"
in Memory of Eileen A. Kelly Award Honorable Mention for "My Crazy Sister"
in the Seasonings Award Honorable Mention for "A Well Seasoned Life"
Poetry Society of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March, 2011 - Howard Starks-Dennis Letts Memorial Award
First Honorable Mention for "Open Heart Surgery"
March, 2010 - in the Bell Award
First Place for "an owl is heard" (haiku)
March, 2010 - David Personette Memorial Fund
Second Honorable Mention for "My Grandmother's House"
March, 2010 - Howard Starks-Dennis Letts Memorial Award
Citation for "Watch Where You Step"
Poetry Society of Texas - in Dallas, Texas
in November, 2011
in the Mahan Award category, Eigth Place for "My Grandmother's House"
in the Monica Elliott Murphy Remembrance Award category, Fifth Place for "Room 232"
in the Frances Ramsay Holcombe Award category, Fifth Place for "Love Does the Hard Things"
Poetry Society of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia
April, 2011 - Brodie Herndon Memorial Award
First Place - "Widow's Walk"
Poets & Patrons Chicagoland Poetry Contest
October, 2011
in the Minature Poem category
Second Honorable Mention for "Go Away and Come Back"
in the Religious Poem category
Third Honorable Mention for "The Widow's Mite
Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas in Hot Springs, Arkansas
October, 2010, Poetry Day Awards
in the Florence M. Gibbs Memorial Award Second Place for "The Grandchild"
in the Ann Talley Kinnaird Memorial Award Second Place for "Teacher in the Wild"
in the L.C. and Pat Bridges Award Third Place for "The Widow's Mite"
in the Vanishing Newspaper Award
Second Honorable Mention for "The Daily Beagle"
Professional Writers of Prescott in Prescott, Arizona
October, 2011 - Annual Writing Contest
Second Place - 5 poem collection: "Neighborhood Dogs"
"Widow's Walk"
"The Widow's Mite"
"Room 232"
"Love Does the Hard Things"
San Antonio Writer's Guild in San Antonio, Texas
December, 2006 - Poetry, First Place - "Fall"
Poetry, Third Place - "Rainbow's End"
in the "Judy Award" for most rejections this year - 106 - First Place
December, 2005 - Children's Nonfiction, First Place - "Alaskan Adventure"
in the "Judy Award" for most rejections this year - 88 - First Place
December, 2004 - Adult Poetry, First Place - "Dickey"
Juvenile Poetry, First Place - "Giggles"
Adult Nonfiction, Third Place - "Mercy Waits"
in the "Judy Award" for most rejections this year - 106 - First Place
Saturday Writers: Chapter of Missouri Writers Guild in St. Peters, Missouri
December, 2011, Short Story Contest
Fifth Place for "The Second Christmas"
May, 2011, One-page Poem Contest
Second Place for "Room 232"
The Write Helper in Old Monroe, Missouri
December, 2010, Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest
First Place for "The Lord Gives and ..."
December, 2009, Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest
Notable Entry for "Jacky"
Utah State Poetry Society in Salt Lake City, Utah
April, 2010 Spring Festival, Lea Deloris Monson Memorial
Third Honorable Mention for "Roadrunner Rhyme"
West Texas Writers Short Story Contest in Midland, Texas
June, 2011 -
Third Place for "The Second Christmas"
White County Creative Writers in Searcy, Arkansas
September, 2010, in the Bob and Fay Williams Jones Award -
First Honorable Mention for "My Crazy Sister"
September, 2009, in the Love Bytes poetry contest -
First Honorable Mention for "Spirit Lake, Iowa"
