Creative Nonfiction, Communications, Professional
Award of Excellence from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District 7 (2007); wrote one of six articles evaluated by judges in the winning entry for best magazine writing for ASU Research Magazine.
Best Employee Publication communications award for Boyd Gaming Corporation newsletter from the American Gaming Association (2006)
Honorable Mentions for feature writing in Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition (2006, 2004, 2003)
Copper Quills for feature writing, personality profiles and magazine design from the Phoenix Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). (2005, 1996, 1995)
Pinnacle Awards of Excellence from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Las Vegas Valley Chapter for employee newsletter, annual report and media kit (2005)
Communications Concepts APEX Awards of Excellence for overall magazine quality and overall newsletter quality. (1996, 1992)
Invited to judge in the Annual Journalism Competition of the National Association of Real Estate Editors (1996).
Fiction
River Styx Schlafly MicroFiction Contest, 3rd place for short story, Night Window (2010); published in the literary journal's summer issue (# 83).
Freedom in Fiction Prize from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for unpublished novel, All Different Kinds of Free (2009); as a novel in progress, the work also was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Dana Awards and the 2005 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition (under the working title Margaret Morgan)
