I’ve won several cash prizes: Before The Last Leaf Falls, a memoir, won $10,000 and first prize in the Christian Writers Guild non-fiction contest. The memoir was a finalist in the 2016 Wisdom-Faulkner contest. Since then I've worked with two editors to fine-tune the manuscript.

An unpublished novel The Rustling of a Wing, won the Rupert Hughes Fiction Award at the Maui Writer’s Conference ($1,000 cash prize), First-Place Fiction award at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference. And Rustling was a finalist in the Christian Writers $50,000 Guild First Novel competition.

I’ve also received first-place cash awards from Writer's Digest and other publications ($1,000 awards).

I've won four first-place awards ($500 each) from a contest jointly sponsored by the Ventura County Star and the Ventura County Writer's Club.

One piece won Story of the Year and a thousand pounds from World Wide Writers, Writer’s Forum (published in the United Kingdom).