Monthly Winner, 2009 Economic Challenge Award, Real Economic Impact Tour (March 2009)
1st Place Winner, Overcoming the Odds Award Maumelle [Arkansas] Arts Council Annual Writers Conference (November 2008)
2nd Place Winner, A Sense of Wonder Award Maumelle [Arkansas] Arts Council Annual Writers Conference (November 2008)
Honorable Mention, “Murder Was the Main Course” Award Maumelle [Arkansas] Arts Council Annual Writers Conference (November 2008)
3rd Honorable Mention, “Being Twelve” Second Childhood Award, White County [Arkansas] Creative Writers Annual Conference (August 2008)
3rd Honorable Mention, “Dinner With Ernest” Hemingway-Pfeiffer Award, White County [Arkansas] Creative Writers Annual Conference (August 2008)
1st Place Winner, “What the FWCA Has Done For Me” Fiction Writers of Central Arkansas Annual Writing Contest (December 2007)