I have won awards for my writing from the following organizations:
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Missouri Indie Author Project -- winner of the adult fiction contest for Lead Me Home.
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Missouri Writers Guild -- Second Place in the 2016 "Show Me" Best Book Award for Lead Me Home.
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Mid-America Romance Authors -- My Hope Secured was a finalist in the 2020 CARLA Contest.
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Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award -- Now I'm Found, Forever Mine, and My Hope Secured were nominees for this award in the years they were eligible.
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Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. -- numerous awards for poetry and short fiction over several years, including
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First place for poems "Sacrament," "On the Tower's Ledge," and "Dementia"
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First place for a short story "A Mother's Day Gift"
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Second place for an early draft of Now I'm Found
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Honorable mention for an early draft of Lead Me Home
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Honorable mention for a short story "Driving to Des Moines" (later published in Family Recipe)
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Missouri State Poetry Society -- First Place for a poem "Requiem?"