ACHIEVEMENTS

THE LATEST	I was thrilled to be able to participate in the Community of Writers Fiction Workshop held this summer in the Virtual Valley (COVID, y’all). The 7 day conference was a wonderful learning experience where I worked with some of the best writing participants I’ve ever had the pleasure of workshopping. The improvement in my manuscript, IN THE NAME OF MISSISSIPPI, was extraordinary. * This summer I led 4 weekly Righting Group workshops at Annunciation Episcopal Church during Adult Formation Hour. Use the Contact form today if you’d like for me to lead a Righting Group workshop for your organization or speak on the power of Righting Groups to form community. * Two more short story excerpts from my novel manuscript “The Bone Trench” have been published in 2019, one in Exterminating Angel Press and one in Connotation Press. That makes 3 excerpts from the novel that have seen the light of day—Yay! I also had a personal essay published in Literary Orphans (so proud) earlier this year. You can read “Atomirotica” here.
I’VE BEEN PUBLISHED, AN ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT	Making Crosses: A Creative Connection to God (Paraclete Press, 2009); Cain’t Do Nothing with Love, CIPA EVVY AUDIO BOOK AWARD (2014); Tracking Happiness: A Southern Chicken Adventure (2018); Model for Deception (2019); The Hart Women (2019); We R Righting Group: A Pocket Guide to Writing in Groups…and Righting the World (2019); “Tetanus, You Understand?” included in Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir by Sue Silverman (University of Georgia Press, 2009) + oodles of literary journals
I’VE BEEN A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS	Contributor, Radio Commentaries West TN and MS NPR affiliates 2000-2007 (PRNDI Award, 2nd Place, Commentary/Essay 2000); Contributor, Strut! Magazine (2004-2008); Contributor, Church Health Reader
MY WORK HAS BEEN IN LITERARY JOURNALS	Including Hotel Amerika (one of the prettiest journals I’ve been in), Alimentum, (the only piece I’ve ever written about food) Brevity, Southern Women’s Review, Literary Orphans, Connotation Press, Tertulia Magazine, StorySouth,The Rambler, KWG Anthology, North Dakota Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review (two of my “frozen tundra” publications), Barrelhouse (which gives me street cred), Texas Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, New Madrid, Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression, Arkansas Review, Southern Hum, Image: A Journal of Art and Religion, Gulf Coast Literary Journal, Eureka Literary Magazine, Hurricane Review (my husband’s favorite), The Pinch
I’VE WON AWARDS, A HAPPY OCCURRENCE	Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XXXI, “Held at Gunpoint,” 2007; Nominated, Pushcart Prize, 2007, “Gift of the Elephant” TN Writers’ Alliance Nonfiction Winner, 2007; TN Writers’ Alliance Fiction, Winner 2005; Winner, Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest, 2009; Peralta Press, 2K2 Award Winner 2002; Cain’t Do Nothing with Love CIPA EVVY Audio Book Award, 2014
I’VE BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR MY WRITING	Peter Taylor Fellow, Kenyon College Summer Writing Program, 2005; Sewanee Writers Conference, 2002; Richard Bausch Moss Group; Upstander, Facing History and Ourselves.
MY NOVELS HAVE PLACED IN CONTESTS	Jazzy and the Pirates, Finalist, Novel-in-progress, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition, 2018 The Bone Trench, Short List Finalist, Novel-in-progress, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition, 2015; Second Round, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, 2014 In the Name of Mississippi, Short List Finalist, Novel-in-progress, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition 2009, and Semi-finalist (25/600) James Jones First Novel Competition 2005

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