2009-2010 Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Fiction award for "Curls of Gold."
2012 Slamdance Film Festival Top 25 Feature Film Scripts for "Til Death Do Us Part."
2012 Oregon Film Festival Bronze Award for Oregon Screenplays for "Til Death Do Us Part."
2013 Omaha Film Festival Finalist for "Til Death Do Us Part."

Author Name:
Lisa Kovanda

Short story, "The Silver Lining," placed 10th in the 79th Writer's Digest Writing Competion in 2010.

Author Name:
Janet Syas Nitsick

2012 Memoir THRESHOLD: A MEMOIR received the Outstanding Thesis Award for the College of Fine Arts and Humanities, University of Nebraska-Kearney

Author Name:
Faith A. Colburn

2011 EPIC Award-Intimate Flames-Contemporary Romance
2012 Love Romances and More Golden Rose Award Runner-Up-Respectable Affair-WWII Historical Romance

Author Name:
Annette Snyder

"Wakonda" - Screenplay finalist in the Omaha Film Festival
"Henrietta McGee" - Screenplay finalist in the Omaha Film Festival
"Killing Time" - Screenplay finalist in the Omaha Film Festival
Ad Club Award for an advertising campaign
ASTD Certificate of Excellence for Creative Training video
"Fine Lines Literary Magazine" 55 Words or Less Contest finalist and published
Elected in 2114 to serve on the Nebraska Film Association Board of Directors
Elected in 2117 as Secretary on the Board of Directors for Nebraska Film Association
Appointed Chair for the Nebraska Film Association Membership and Fundraising Committee
Appointed as editor on the Nebraska Film Association Communications Committee

Author Name:
Johnnye Gerhardt

Spring 2014, first place, Peru State College Writing Contest for poem, "The Irony of Spider Webs."
Spring 2014, first place, Peru State College Writing Contest for non-fiction, "Death of a Dryer."

Author Name:
Janet Sobczyk

June 8, 2015 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards - First Place in the Educational/Instruction - "Super Smart Sugar"
June 8, 2015 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards - First Place in Family Matters - "Sugar a Princess Pit Bull Finds Her Family"
June 8, 2015 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards - Honorable Mention in the Animals/Pets Category - "Sugar a Princess Pit Bull Finds Her Family"

Author Name:
Barbara J. Freeman

2015-eLit Awards- Bronze Medal Winner- Literary Fiction: Memories of a Mud Bee

Author Name:
Madonna Ball

2017 - Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Sports for Velocipede
2017 - Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Pets & Animals for People Like Cats
2016 - 150 Notable Nebraska Books for Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence
2016 - Independent Publisher Bronze Book Award (IPPY Award) for Drink
2016 - Pacifica Literary Review Creative Nonfiction Contest Honorable Mention
2016 & 2015 - Elgin Award Nomination for Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience
2015 - Nebraska Book Awards Honor Book for Intimates and Fools
2015 - District Lit Poetry Prize finalist for “When We’re Not Hiking”
2015 - Beecher’s Poetry Award for “Roadside Kiddie Pools”
2014 - Honorable Mention, Steel Toe Books
2014 - The Lascaux Review, Pushcart Prize Nomination
2013 - Finalist, The Backwaters Prize
2013 - Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition, Semi-Finalist
2012 - Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Fellowship and Grant
2012 - “Best of Spittoon” Fiction Award
2011 - Susan Atefact Peckham Poetry Fellowship
2011 - Research Grant-in-Aid, Center for the Great Plains Studies
2010 - Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Poet-in-Residence Grant
2010 - Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize by Persea Books, Semi-finalist
2009 - Academy of American Poets Award/Gaffney in Poetry
2009 - Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize Honorable Mention in Creative Nonfiction
2008 - Mari Sandoz/Prairie Schooner Award in Fiction

Author Name:
Laura Madeline Wiseman

2017 Bess Streeter Aldrich Short Story Contest - 1st Place, Adult Division

Author Name:
Maggie Aldrich