Awards

Alabama Writers Conclave Writing Competition

“Frozen Fourth” Young Adult Fiction, 07/02 3rd Place

“Surprise” General Fiction, 07/03 H.M.

“Beepers” Young Adult Fiction, 07/04 1st Place

“Bucket” Young Adult Fiction,07/04 2nd Place

“High Iron” Young Adult Fiction, 07/04 3rd Place

“Hinky Dinky Parlez Vou” Creative Non-Fiction, 07/04 2nd Place

“Use it or Lose It” Flash Fiction,07/05 H.M.

“Lost and Found” Short Fiction, 07/05 H.M.

“Hurricane Christmas” Creative Non-Fiction, 07/05 H.M.

“Bridge Tender” Humor, 07/06 2nd Place

“Permission” Creative Non-Fiction, 07/06 2nd Place

“Vicarious” Non-Fiction, 7/07 H. M.

“Grateful” Short Fiction, 7/07 H. M.

“Don’t say No to Momma” Short Fiction, 7/08 4th Place

“Mothers”, 7/09 H. M.

National League of Amercian Pen Women, Mobile Chapter

“Pago Potpourri” 04/98 1st Place

“First Case” 04/99 2nd Place

“Wise Mothers” 04/02 1st Place

“Hinky Dinky Parlez Vou” 04/03 2nd Place

Tennessee Mountain Writers Assosciation

“High Iron” – 2nd Place, April, ‘09

“Hurricane Christmas” Spring ‘05 H.M.

“Briefcase” 05/06 3rd Place

“Permission” 04/07 2nd Place

“Cutthroat” 03/08 H. M.

Creative Writers of Alabama

“First Case” 07/05 1st Place

Chattahoochee Valley Writers Group

“Gabe and the Sodbuster” – 3rd Place, Sept. 2008

Baldwin Writers Group

“Good Times” – 1st Place, March, 2009

“Don’t Sass yo’ Momma” 05/08 2nd Place

“Pleasin” 05/08 H.M.

Brick Street Press – Clinton, MS.

“High Iron” – H.M., February 2009

Writing Postitions

Past President of the Baldwin Writers Group. (Three Years)

Gardening Correspondent, This,That and the Other Magazine

Seniors Correspondent, Jubilee Breeze Magazine

Columnist for This, That and the Other Magazine (The Story Teller)

Senior Health Correspondent for the Gulf Coast Newspapers

Instructor, Short Story Writing, Eastern Shore Institute for Life Long Learning

Instructor, Home Schooling Eastern Shore Group, Essay Composition

Moderator, Advanced Baldwin Writers Group Critique Section