Publications & Awards
Read My Stories
"Big Bend"
Steel Toe Review, Spring 2015
My husband insists on adventures. So here I am: packing for a place I know about in theory, not in fact. My prayer-time literature fits into the bottom of a new black duffle bag: my Bible, two daily devotionals and The Imitation of Christ, which I'm reading for Lent. My purse is big enough for the trade paperbacks I'm working through: Nouwen, O'Conner, Merton and Lewis..........continue reading
"Extol Him Who Rides the Clouds"
Numero Cinq, Fall 2014
Call me Magdalene. Not Maggie. Not Meg. And certainly not Dolly, for God's sake. Call me Magdalene. Let the syllables roll off your tongue. Slowly...slowly...continue reading
"Exercise in Memory"
Numero Cinq, Fall 2013
This is the automated Emergency Blackboard of the Town of Highland Park....continue reading
"On the Occasions that Lula Sought Answers from Her Mother's Bible Concordance"
Numero Cinq, Summer 2013
DANCE (danced, dancing)
Ecc 3:4 a time to d and a time to mourn
2Sa 6:14 d before the Lord
Ps 30:11 You turned my waiting into d
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"Point. Click."
The Summerset Review, Summer 2013
Start with the subject. A subject doesn't have to be totally fleshed out at first—you don't have to know everything about them—what's in their drawers and all, unless the junk drawer or something is what you're photographing. Then search search search to find that character's face somewhere, anywhere.....continue reading
"Chad's Room"
Sleet, Fall 2013
The closet company sent someone to count her clothes. She would need the proper number of inches to hand things in the master closet she was making out of Chad's empty bedroom. The company suggested categories divided up by butternut--colored panels from ceiling to floor. The top part would house blouses and the bottom pants or skirts, with special hooks for suits and belts, a glass-fronted cupboard for sweaters.....continue reading
Publications and Readings
“Jericho” | Blue Lake Review | Jan 1, 2020
“A Metafictional Reality” | Straylight Literary Journal | Oct 11 2019
“Oral Fixation: a Path of my Personal Life” | Esthetic Apostle | May, 2019
"Lula's Strategy for Keeping Secrets from Her Grown Daughter, Who Always Overreacts" | On the Veranda Literary Journal | Issue 2.1 | 2017
"Proof" | Blue Five Notebook | 2016
“Forms of Defiance” | After the Pause | Fall 2015
“Big Bend” / Steel Toe Review #20 / April 6, 2015
“Indian Blanket” / Between the Lines 2014 / Dec 2014 - Public Reading
“Extol Him Who Rides the Clouds” / Numero Cinq / September 2014
“Indian Blanket” / SLAB Issue 9 / 2014
“Exercise in Memory” / Numero Cinq / Oct 2013
“On the Occasions that Lula Sought Answers from Her Mother’s Bible Concordance”/Numero Cinq
“Point. Click.” / Summerset Review / June 2013
“Chad’s Room” / Sleet / fall 2013
“New Tomb” / Between the Lines / Spring 2012
“Crutches” / Between the Lines / Spring 2012
“Between” / Between the Lines / Spring 2011
“Chad’s Room” / Wichita Falls Literary & Arts Journal / Spring 2008
“The Prayer Diary of Doreen Newton” / Love After 70: an Anthology / Wising Up Press / 2008
“Prayer Diary of Doreen Newton” & “Point. Click.” / WordSpace Literary Festival / July 2007 - Public Reading
“The Prayer Diary of Doreen Newton” / Between the Lines / Fall 2007 - Public Reading
“Windows” / Between the Lines / Fall 2007 w public reading
“Suzette’s Folly” / Between the Lines / Spring 2002
“The Christmas Tree” [CCS title] / El Dorado News-Times / November 22, 2001
“The living will . . .” / Between the Lines / Spring 2001 [with SouthArk Fall 2001 Creative Writing Class]
“Bruiser’s Church” / Between the Lines / Spring 2000
“Average Isn’t Normal” / Between the Lines / Spring 2000
“Family Night Supper” [CCS title] / El Dorado News-Times / November 23, 2000
“Resurrection of Andy Rose Johnson’s House” / Between the Lines / Spring 1999
“Garage Sale” / Between the Lines / Spring 1999
“Resurrection of Andy Rose Johnson’s House” / Anthology of the Eudora Welty Film & Fiction Winning Entries / Summer 1996
“Enemy’s Content” / Dreams &Visions #11 / Spring 1992
Awards
“Secrets that Lula, Aged 73, Keeps from Her Daughter Who Always Overreacts” | Reynolds Price Writing Contest - Finalist | Center for Women Writers at Salem College
“Average Isn’t Normal” | Arkansas Writers’ Conference Prose Award - First Place | AR Writers Conference | 2002
“Walker” | Finalist | New Letters Literary Awards | 2001
“Walker” | ACH Graphics Award - First Place | Ozark Writers Conference | 2001
“With” (poem) | Board of Directors Poetry Award - First Honorable Mention | Ozark Creative Writers Conference | Fall 1999
“Conversion” | ACH Graphics Award - Third Place | Ozark Creative Writers Conference | Fall 1998
“Sibling Rivalry” | Rebard Award - Third Place | Ozark Creative Writers Conference | Fall 1998
“Group of Short Stories” | Suzi Award for Excellence in Fiction - Honorable Mention | River Cities Writers | Summer 1997
“Resurrection of Andy Rose Johnson’s House” | Honorable Mention | Eudora Welty Film & Fiction Festival Awards | Spring 1996
“Garage Sale” | Honorable Mention | New Voices in Poetry & Prose | Fall 1992
“Enemies’ Content” | First Place | Shreveport Writers’ Club | Spring 1991
“Up Close” (poem) | First Place | Shreveport Writers’ Club | Winter 1990
“Bruiser’s Church” | Third Place | Shreveport Writers’ Club | Winter 1990
“Winters’ Smile” | First Place | Shreveport Writers’ Club | Winter 1989