AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS for Topping the Willow, Young Adult novel and Feature Screenplay:
* Topping the Willow—Novel; Finalist for The IAN Book of the Year Award for Spiritual/Inspirational Fiction (2023)
*SOMETHING BIGGER—“Recommend” by Extreme Screenwriting (Barb Doyon); featured in Jan 2021 Extreme Screenwriting newsletter (Alt. title)
*SOMETHING BIGGER—We Screenplay Contest, Feature/Faith category; Quarter-finalist (2020)
*Topping the Willow—Novel; Semi-Finalist for Serious Writer’s Writer of the Year Award (2020)
*Topping the Willow—Novel; 4th Place for the Off the Beaten Path Contest by Mt. Zion Ridge Press (2020)
*Topping the Willow—Novel; Semi-Finalist for Genesis Contest of American Christian Fiction Writers (2017)
*TOPPING THE WILLOW—Screenplay; Finalist for the Kairos Prize, the pre-eminent competition for faith-based, feature-length screenplays (2015)
*TOPPING THE WILLOW—Screenplay; Semi-Finalist for the Kairos Prize (2014)
Other:
*Riding the Elephant—Story Collection; Semi-Finalist for the Eludia Award by Hidden Arts (2019)
* THE GALILEANS—Unproduced screenplay. Researcher/character development as part of trio hired to rewrite Tim LaHaye’s script ASCENSION (2013)
* “Eliza’s Playhouse”—Story; Reflections from the River’s Edge (2010 anthology by Poets &Writers Ink, Cape Vincent, NY)
* “Only the Best”—Story; thewriteplaceattherighttime.org (3rd Place, 2009 contest)
* “Losing Madame Arcati”—story; Brio! (Focus on the Family teen mag, 2005)
* “Preheat”—humorous poem from a goat’s POV; Dairy Goat Journal (1999)
* “The Jordan Hospital”—15-minute video about a local hospital (1985)
* Writer/researcher/associate producer for seven 16mm edu-documentary films produced at Cornell 1980-82 by Dr. James B. Maas: THE FIVE SENSES (five 16mm films and written materials for National Geographic); THE BASIC QUESTION (Cornell Medical College); WHEN NIGHTS ARE LONGEST (The Upjohn Company)
* “How Much Is Half a Trillion?”—news column about the proposed national budget, entered by a Congressman into The Congressional Record (1979)
Works in progress:
True North (Working title)—A sequel to Topping the Willow
Man of Mud and Other Poems