Awards & Honors
2025 –
Grand Prize Winner, Flora's Lantern. Mighty Kidlit Kind Words Contest, 2026
2020 – 2024
Honorable Mention, La Dance du Printemps. Kaitlyn Sanchez's Spring Fling Kidlit Contest, 2025
Tenth Place, Flora's Lantern. Kaitlyn Sanchez's Spring Fling Kidlit Contest, 2024
Honorable Mention, The Wish Granter of Wayward Cats. Writer's Digest Annual Writing Contest, 2023
Third Place, U Dreams. Kaitlyn Sanchez's Spring Fling Kidlit Contest, 2023
Third Place, To Be in a Book. Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2022
Honorable Mention, Three Little Things. Writer's Digest Annual Writing Contest, 2021
Third Place, Esperanza. Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2021
Honorable Mention, Four Things. Susanna Leonard Hill Holiday Contest, 2020
Honorable Mention, Simone Says. Writer's Digest Annual Writing Contest, 2020
2015 – 2019
Honorable Mention, Cassie and the Ghost Cat. Writer's Digest Annual Writing Contest, 2017
Second Place, Rosie and the Absolutely, Positively Extraordinary Day. Writers-Editors Network
International Writing Competition, 2016
First Place, Totally, Completely, and Perfectly Me. Alabama Writers' Conclave, 2015
Notable, Totally, Completely, and Perfectly Me. Writers-Editors Network International Writing
Competition, 2015
Second Place, Totally, Completely, and Perfectly Me, Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2015
2010 – 2014
Third Place, Cholla: The True Story of an Artsy Horse. Alabama Writers Conclave, 2013
Third Place, Cholla: The True Story of an Artsy Horse. Southwest Writers, 2013
First Place, When Sheep Won’t Leap. The Institute of Children’s Writers, 2012
First Place, Maggie and the Third Grade Blues. Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2010
Honorable Mention, Maggie and the Third Grade Blues. Writers’ Digest, 2010
Honorable Mention, Maggie and the Third Grade Blues. Alabama Writers Conclave, 2010
Finalist, Cooking up Tradition. Harriet A. Rose Legacies Contest, 2010
2005 – 2009
Second Place, When Sheep Won’t Leap. Alabama Writers Conclave, 2009
Second Place, “Snatching a Moment with Satch.” Stories for Children Granny Award, 2009
First Place, Charlie and the Book of Cat. Friends of the Decatur Public Library, 2009
Honorable Mention, Charlie and the Book of Cat. Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2009
Honorable Mention, Place to Call Home. Alabama Writers' Conclave, Juvenile Fiction, 2008
Awardee, “The Mysteries of Chaco Canyon.” Stories for Children Granny Award, 2008
Second Place, Brooke and the Ladies of Bath. Tennessee Mountain Writers, Juvenile Fiction, 2007
Honorable Mention, Brooke and the Ladies of Bath. Women in the Arts, Juvenile Fiction, 2006
Honorable Mention, The Woods, the Mist, and the Moonbow. Writers’ Digest, Juvenile Fiction, 2006
Third Place, Making Paper. Great Blue Beacon, Poetry, 2007
Second Place, The Woods, the Mist, and the Moonbow. Great Blue Beacon, 2007
Honorable Mention, Brooke and the Ladies of Bath. Alabama Writers’ Conclave, 2006
Second Place, The Woods, the Mist, and the Moonbow. Tennessee Mountain Writers, 2006
2000 – 2004
Commendations, 9th Annual Women in the Arts Contest, Juvenile Fiction, 2004
Honorable Mention, Friends of the Decatur Public Library Contest, Juvenile Fiction, 2004
Commendations, A Wish and Three Dreams. Friends of the Decatur Public Library Contest, Juvenile
Fiction, 2003
Honorable Mention, May Day Contest, Juvenile Fiction, 2003
Honorable Mention, The Mississippi Floods. 8th Great Blue Beacon Poetry Contest, 2002
Third Honorable Mention, Green River Writer’s Contest, Juvenile Fiction, 2002
Third Place, Woodrow Hale Memorial Prize, Green River Writer’s Contest, Poetry, 2002
Finalist, The Cup of Comfort. Finalist, Adams Media Extraordinary Truths Story Contest, 2001
Second Place, Spring Poetry Contest, Simply Words, 2001
First Place, 6th Great Blue Beacon Poetry Contest, 2001