ACHIEVEMENTS
!! FEATURED !! | My short story “The Yellow Line” is appearing in the December issue of StoryBoard Memphis. I am so pleased that this story about coming out of homelessness is in a new Memphis print publication. You can see the online version at the StoryBoard website. You’ll see a teaser for the story in the upper right corner of the edition. My interview and the story appears on page 19. Scroll through the pages, enjoying yourself along the way (they included a review of Writing Our Way Home: A Group Journey Out of Homelessness–be still my heart!) |
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); “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 |
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I’VE BEEN RECOGNIZED FOR MY WRITING |
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MY NOVELS HAVE PLACED IN CONTESTS |
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