I have won awards for my writing from the following organizations:

  • Missouri Indie Author Project -- winner of the adult fiction contest for Lead Me Home.

  • Missouri Writers Guild -- Second Place in the 2016 "Show Me" Best Book Award for Lead Me Home.

  • Mid-America Romance Authors -- My Hope Secured was a finalist in the 2020 CARLA Contest.

  • 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.

  • Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. -- numerous awards for poetry and short fiction over several years, including

    • First place for poems "Sacrament," "On the Tower's Ledge," and "Dementia"

    • First place for a short story "A Mother's Day Gift"

    • Second place for an early draft of Now I'm Found

    • Honorable mention for an early draft of Lead Me Home

    • Honorable mention for a short story "Driving to Des Moines" (later published in Family Recipe)

  • Missouri State Poetry Society -- First Place for a poem "Requiem?"