HONORS AND AWARDS

 

 

FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

Poetry Fellow: South Carolina Arts Commission (Selected by David Trinidad)

Poetry Fellow: South Carolina Academy of Authors

FINALIST

             Independent Author Award for novel: What the Mirrors Knew: 2026

             Hawthorne Prize: Shortlist for novel: What the Mirrors Knew: 2026

             Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry: Dirt Sandwich: 2010

             Oscar Arnold Young Book Award: 2007 Finalist (Judged by Stephen Gardner, USC Aiken)

             Oscar Arnold Young Book Award: 2008 Finalist: (Judged by Sally Keith, George Mason Univ.)

             Brockman-Campbell Poetry Book Award: 2008 Finalist: (Judged by Kwame Dawes)

           John Ciardi Book Prize in Poetry, Bookmark Press, Finalist: (Judged by Christopher Buckley)

            Texas Review Chapbook Competition: First Runner-up: (Judged by R.S. Gwynn)

             Logan House Press Book Prize Finalist

            White Eagle Coffee Store Press Finalist: (Judged by John Surowiecki)

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AWARDS FOR POETRY BOOKS

           Recipient: Finalist: Next Generation Indie Book Award

Recipient: Palanquin Press Chapbook Award, University of South Carolina, Aiken

Recipient: Kentucky Writers’ Coalition Chapbook Award

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POETRY PRIZES:

William Gilmore Simms Poetry Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Jeanne Crandall Broulik Prize, Poetry Society of SC

John Robert Doyle Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Forum Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Pegasus Prize, Poetry Society of SC

John Edward Johnson Prize, Poetry Society of SC (2000 & 2003)

DuBose Heyward Society Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Beatrice Ravenel Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Lyric Poem Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Archibald Rutledge Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Marjorie E. Peale Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Footlight Players Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Eunice Thompson Memorial Prize, Poetry Society of Georgia

George L. Dunn Prize, Poetry Society of Georgia

Grace Schley Knight Prize, Poetry Society of Georgia

           Hester Forshaw Constantine Memorial Prize, Poetry Society of Georgia

Kinlock Rivers Memorial Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Post and Courier Prize: Poetry Society of SC

William Henry Klemm Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Ellen Douglas Everett Carruthers Prize, Poetry Society of SC

Flo Robinson Prize in Prose: Lincoln Arts Council, Lincolnton, NC

 

NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS

Pushcart Prize by Press 53

Pushcart Prize by Wild Goose Poetry Review     

Best of the Net

 

COMMUNITY AWARD

            Woman of the Year: Lincoln County, Lincolnton, NC

 

HONORS

          LITERARY WORK IN ARCHIVAL COLLECTION

Special Collections and Archives Department: James B. Duke Library: South Carolina Poetry Archives, Furman University

 

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Southern Artistry: Southern Artistry Federation & CAM, Carnegie Mellon