Awards & Honours

2024

• Hon. Mention Haiku - Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest ("the arabesque")
• Haiku Book - Random Blue Sparks, Snapshot Press Book Award Winner, forthcoming

2023

• 1st Place Tanka - San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Contest ("there was")
• Runner-up Tanka - Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award, British Haiku Society ("sunbeams sift")
• Hon. Mention Tanka - Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award, British Haiku Society ("sunbeams sift")
• Finalist Tanka - Trailblazer Contest (a contest with no winners - 1 of 16 finalists) ("welling cuts")
• 3rd Place Tanka - Fleeting Words Tanka Contest ("tussocks")
• Hon. Mention Tanka - San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Contest ("let's drive")
• Hon. Mention Tanka - Fleeting Words Tanka Contest ("skeins of wool")
• Shortlisted Kyoka - Dwarf Stars '23, The Very Best Short Speculative Poems Pub in '22 ("a derecho")
• Winning Haiku - Drifting Sands Haibun Wearable Art and Haiku Contest ("drifting sands")
• Highly Commended Haiku - Gloucestershire Poetry Society Haiku Competition ("geriatric ward")
• Highly Commended Haiku - New Zealand Int'l Poetry Competition ("marsh marigolds")
• Highly Commended Haiku - H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest ("foetal/fatal")
• Merit Haiku - Gloucestershire Poetry Society Haiku Competition ("summer heat")
• Runner-up Haiku - Haiku Calendar Comp 2023, Snapshot Press Calendar, May 2024 ("spring breeze")
• Two Judges' Favourites Haiku - Golden Triangle Contest ("vintage typewriter/bark beetles")
• Two Hon. Mention Haiku - 7th Bulgarian Cherry Blossom Contest ("kneeling vespers/night siren")
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Iris, Int'l Haiku Contest on the Theme of Gourds, Croatia ("first school day")
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Canada, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational ("cherry rain")
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Winnetka-Northfield Library, Animal Poems Contest ("prairie antelope")
• 2 Selected Haiku - 15th Yamadera Basho Museum Contest ("a charred banyan/red-crested cardinals")
• Shortlisted Haiku - Presence, Number 75 ("foreclosure")
• Longlisted Haiku - Trailblazer Contest ("inferior outcome")
• Voted Best Haiku - (8 or more votes) Geppo, August ("late thaw")
• Longlisted Haiku for Touchstone Award - Haiku Foundation Individual Poems ("snow grains")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - Suspect Device Punkzine Number 11 ("tumbleweeds")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - Frogpond 46.1 ("funeral lilies")
• Haiku-Mark - Befuddled Press selected a haiku to be made into a bookmark ("morning rain")
• Cherita Lighthouse Awards - The Cherita, December ("deepening snow", "aspens are turning", "marsh cattails", "silver sage")
• Shortlisted Vispo - selected for Sonic Boom's Annual Vispo Contest gallery ("Treaty 1")
• Artwork Winner - Take the Challenge,  Frameless Sky 18, June
• Editor's Choice Haiga - Haiga in Focus, Number 65 ("backlit fog")
• Honourable Mention Haiga - Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition ("migration")
• Judge - Tanka Society of America Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest 
• Featured Tanka Poet & Mentor - Tanka Take Home, Triveni Haikai India, January
• Featured Artist - Whiptail, Issue 7, June (paper weavings)
• Featured Artist - FemAsia Magazine, July (paper collages)
• Featured Artist - Humana Obscura, September (photographs)
• Featured Artist - Kissing Dynamite (impasto paintings) - forthcoming

2022

• Winner, Marianne Bluger Chapbook Award - The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations
• 1st Place Haiku - Creatrix Haiku Prize ("heated debate")
• 1st Place Haiku - Drifting Sands, Monuments No. 1 Contest ("canyonlands")
• 1st Place Haiku - Bloodroot Haiku Award ("busker's hat")
• Runner-up Haiku - The David Cobb Haiku Award, British Haiku Society Awards ("skinny-dipping")
• 2nd Place Haiku - Shintai Haiku, World Haiku Review, Winter 21/22 ("herring shoals")
• 2nd Place Haiku - Third Maya Lyubenova International Haiku Contest ("estuary light")
• Favourite Haiku - one of ten selected, Whole Life Soaps Haiku Contest ("a refugee shelter")
• Hon. Mention, Sakura Award, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational ("sakura")
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Shintai Haiku, World Haiku Review, Winter 21/22 ("empty campground")
• Hon Mention Haiku - Irish Haiku Society Int'l Haiku Competition ("solstice fire")
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - Neo-Classical Haiku, World Haiku Review, Winter 21/22 ("prairie blizzard")
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - Vanguard Haiku, World Haiku Review, Winter 21/22 ("we are")
• 2 Selected Haiku - 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Contest ("plumes of mist/cold war")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - Suspect Device Punkzine Number 10 ("rootless")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - #FemkuMag 34 ("lunulae")
• Nominated Haiku for Red Moon Anthology - #FemkuMag 32 ("wishbones")
• Voted Best Haiku - (9 or more votes) Geppo, August ("hibiscus")
• Voted Best Haiku - (8 or more votes) Geppo, November ("dried thatch")
• Editor's Choice Haiga - Haiga in Focus, Number 52 ("stubbled fields")
• Winner, #BeHereWinnipeg Poetry Contest - tanka triptych frozen in ice, Helix Path ("architrave")
• 1st Place Tanka - Linda Jeannette Ward Tanka Award, British Haiku Society Awards ("at the moment")
• 1st Place Tanka - Drifting Sands, Monuments No. 1 Contest ("awaiting")
• 2nd Place Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Contest ("dried cattails")
• 2nd HM Tanka - San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Contest ("autumn arrives")
• Favourite Tanka - selected by Joanna Ashwell from GUSTS 35 ("leaving home")
• Pushcart Prize Tanka Nomination - nominated by Whiptail Journal ("war-torn")
• Featured Artist - Geppo (May)
• Featured Poet and Artist - Iris #16 (print), Iris International #8 (web)
• Featured Poet - Jacob Salzer Haiku Poet Interviews, November
• Judge - A Little Iris Haiku Contest on Books and Reading

2021

• Grand Prix - 10th Setouchi-Matsuyama Int'l Photo-Haiku Contest ("rippling waves")
• 1st Place Haiku - Irish Haiku Society International Competition ("fireflies")
• 2nd Place Haiku - Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest (for monoku, "Fata Morgana")
• Highly Commended Haiku - New Zealand Poetry Society Int'l Poetry Competition ("the darkness")
• Haiku Laureate - Hexapod Haiku Contest, Frost Entomological Museum ("outdoor wedding")
• 2 Honourable Mention Haiku - Tokutomi Haiku Contest ("the wisteria", "north winds roll...") 
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Sakura Haiku Contest, The University of Alabama ("rebuilt homes")
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Bloodroot Haiku, North Carolina Poetry Society ("a split keel")
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Haiku Contest of the Haiku Society of Constanta ("the lighthouse")
• Hon. Mention Book - Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards ("The Language of Loss")
• Longlisted Haiku for Touchstone Award - The Haiku Foundation ("Fata Morgana")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - Cold Moon Journal, June ("full moon")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - #FemkuMag, 2nd Place ("Fata Morgana")
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - #FemkuMag, July ("bristlegrass") 
• Voted Best Haiku - (7 or more votes) Geppo, August ("meadowsweet")
• Artwork Winner - Take the Challenge, Frameless Sky 15, December
• Editor's Choice Haiku - Cattails, April ("frigid weather")
• 2 Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - Neo-Classical, World Haiku Review, Summer ("sultry day/lily pad rafts")
• 2 Selected Haiku - 13th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Contest ("jellyfish sprites/grief follows")
• Selected Haiku Poet - A New Resonance 12, Red Moon Press
• Featured Haiku Poet - Serow, Volume 4, Spring
• Featured Haiku Poet - New to Haiku Advice for Beginners, The Haiku Foundation, May
• Finalist Tanka - Trailblazer Contest (a contest with no winners - 1 of 12 finalists), ("capsized")
• Hon. Mention Tanka - Fleeting Words Tanka Contest ("lost gloves sprout")
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita (February, November) ("let us celebrate")

2020

• Winner, The Snapshot Press Book Awards - Random Blue Sparks (haiku)
• 3rd Place Tanka - San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
• Highly Commended Tanka - Climate Change: The Burning Issue, Mandy's Pages
• Three Commended Tanka - Climate Change: The Burning Issue, Mandy's Pages
• Hon. Mention Tanka - Mandy's Pages Annual Tanka Contest
• Hon. Mention Tanka - The British Haiku Society Awards 2020, Tanka Section
• Editor's Choice Tanka - Cattails, October
• 1st Place Haiku - 9th Akita International Haiku Contest (English Section)
• 2nd Place Haiku - World Haiku Competition, Save Our World Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition
• 3rd Place Haiku - Glass House Festival, Weighing Raindrops Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - Iris, Int'l Haiku Contest on the Theme of the Gourds, Croatia
• Commended Haiku - Polish International Haiku Competition
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Tokutomi Haiku Contest
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Triveni Haikai Calendar Competition 2020, Triveni Haikai Calendar 2021  
• Hon. Mention Haiku - World Haiku Competition, Save Our World Haiku Contest
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Soka Matsubara International Haiku Competition
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Editor's Choice Haiku, Vanguard Category, World Haiku Review, Autumn
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - Shintai Category, World Haiku Review, Autumn
• Runner-up Haiku - Haiku Calendar Competition 2020, Snapshot Press Calendar Dec. 2021
• Museum of Haiku Literature Award - Blithe Spirit, Volume 30, Number 2
• Judge's Choice Haiku - Poetry Pea, Series 3, Episode 6 - Recipes, March
• In the Starlight Haiku - Stardust 43 feature, July
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - #FemkuMag
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - Human/Kind Journal
• Longlisted Haiku for Touchstone Award - The Haiku Foundation
• Shortlisted Book for Touchstone Award - The Haiku Foundation ("Prairie Interludes")
• Shortlisted Haiku for Best-of-Issue - for haiku featured in Presence Number 68, Nov. 2020 
• Highly Commended Haiga - Santoka 3rd International Haiku and Haiga Contest
• Highly Commended - Australian Haiku Society Haiga Kukai: Non-Seasonal Entry
• The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations - released by Sable Books
• Prairie Interludes - haiku eChapbook released by Snapshot Press
• Mouth Full of Stones - haikai eBook released by Title 1X Press
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita (January, April, May, June)
• Featured Poet - Christina Chin Haiku Blog, February
• Featured Photographer - Cattails, October
• Judge - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Contest

2019

• Winner, Sable Books Contest for Women - The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations
• 1st Place Tanka - The British Haiku Society Awards 2019, Tanka Section
• Runner-up Tanka - The British Haiku Society Awards 2019, Tanka Section
• Two Hon. Mention Tanka - The British Haiku Society Awards 2019, Tanka Section
• Hon. Mention Tanka - World Tanka Competition, Lyrical Passion Poetry E-zine
• Hon. Mention Tanka - San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
• Editor's Choice Tanka - Cattails, October
• Winner (Haiku) - Snapshot Press EChapbook Awards
• 1st Place Haiku - OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition (forthcoming video game)
• Four Selected Haiku - OtherWordly Intergalactic Haiku Competition (forthcoming video game)
• Runner-up Haiku - Northern Ireland Matrix Science Poetry Competition
• Runner-up Haiku - Haiku Calendar Competition 2019, Snapshot Press Calendar Aug. 2020
• 2nd Place Haiku - 1st Morioka International Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - Kaji Aso Studio, 31st Annual Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Rengay - Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest (partner, J. Hambrick)
• Two Highly Commended Haiku - New Zealand Int'l Poetry Competition, Haiku Section 
• Two Commended Haiku - Iris Haiku Contest, "Three Rivers" Croatia
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Irish Haiku Society 12th International Haiku Competition
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Iris, The Int'l Haiku Contest on the Theme of the Gourds, Croatia
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest
• Hon. Mention, Sakura Award, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational
• 3rd Hon. Mention Haiku Chapbook - Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Contest
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - R.H. Blyth Award, World Haiku Review, March
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Shintai Category, December
• Judges' Favourites Haiku - Golden Triangle Haiku Contest
• Two Selected Haiku - 11th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
• Shortlisted Haiku for Best-of-Issue - for haiku featured in Presence Number 63, March
• Three Shortlisted Haiku, Touchstone Award  - The Haiku Foundation
• Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - #FemkuMag
• Editor's Choice Haiku - 365 Days Around the Sun (featured for the month of May)
• Runner-up Senryu - Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers' Choice Awards
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, March
• Three Cherita Lighthouse Awards - The Cherita, August
• Three Cherita Lighthouse Awards - The Cherita, September
• Two Cherita Lighthouse Awards - The Cherita, November
• Featured Poet - Ribbons 15.2, Summer/Spring
• Featured Artist - Cirrus: tankas de nos jours, Number 11
• Featured Photographer - Colorado Boulevard Poets Salon, August and September
• Take the Challenge Art Winner - Frameless Sky 10, June
• Highly Commended Haiga - Santoka 2nd International Haiku and Haiga Contest
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival, "Life Flows By"
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival, "Infinite Possibilities"
• Haiga - Summer Gallery "Monostich Imaginings", Haigaonline, June
• Review of Three-Part Harmony - GUSTS 29, Spring/Summer
• Review of Three-Part Harmony - Atlas Poetica 37, May
• Book Appreciation for Three-Part Harmony - Red Lights 15.2, June

2018

• 1st Place Tanka - Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
• Winning Tanka - 10th Annual Moonbathing Tanka Contest
• 2nd Place Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• 2nd Place Tanka - San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
• 3rd Place Tanka - San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
• 3rd Place Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• Hon. Mention Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• Two Hon. Mention Tanka - Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
• 1st Place Haiku - Romanian Kukai Group, 7th Sharpening the Green Pencil Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - Kaji Aso Studio, 30th Annual Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - Irish Haiku Society 11th International Haiku Competition
• 3rd Place Haiku - ukiaHaiku Festival 16th Annual Jane Reichhold Int'l Prize
• 3rd Place Senryu - San Francisco Int'l Competition for Haiku, Senryu and Tanka
• Museum of Haiku Literature Award - Blithe Spirit, Volume 28, Number 4
• Highly Commended Haiku - New Zealand International Poetry Competition, Haiku Section
• Commended Haiku - New Zealand International Poetry Competition, Haiku Section
• Runner-up - The Haiku Calendar Competition 2018, Snapshot Press Calendar "Oct." 2019
• Runner-up Haiku - Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers' Choice Awards
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Tokutomi Haiku Contest
• Hon. Mention Haiku - World Haiku Competition, Lyrical Passion Poetry E-zine
• Hon. Mention, Sakura Award, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational
• 5th Hon. Mention Haiku - Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards Competition
• Two Shortlisted Haiku, Touchstone Award - The Haiku Foundation 
• Two Judges' Favourites Haiku - Golden Triangle Haiku Contest
• Two Selected Haiku - 10th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
• Two Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Neo-Classical Category, March
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Vanguard Category, March
• Short-Listed Senryu - H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest
• Hon. Mention Cherita - Mad About Cherita Contest, Frameless Sky 8, June
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, January
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, February
• Winner of Cover Art Contest (photograph) - Skylark 6:1, Summer
• Featured Artist - KYSO Flash, Issue 10, Fall
• Featured Artist - Haiku Canada Review, Volume 12, Number 2, October
• Featured Artist - Frameless Sky, Issue 9, December
• Featured Artistic Contributor - Incense Dreams 2.1, March
• Featured Haiga Artist - Daily Haiga, May 1 - 17 
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival, "Limned"
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival, "Becoming Water"
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival, "Watercoloured Words"
• Haiga - Haiku Masters Online Gallery, NHK World TV, Japan, January
• Three-Part Harmony, Tanka Verses - full-length poetry collection (Keibooks)
• Judge - UHTS Annual Hortensia Anderson Memorial Haiku/Senryu Awards
• Judge - The British Haiku Society Tanka Awards

2017

• 2nd Place Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• 3rd Place Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• Hon. Mention Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• Hon. Mention Tanka - Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
• Nominated Tanka - Dwarf Stars, Best Very Short Speculative Poems Published in 2016
• 1st Hon. Mention Haiga - Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition
• 1st Place Haiga Kukai - Australian Haiku Society, Spring Haiga Kukai Seasonal Entry
• Judge's Choice Visual Art - Scryptic Magazine, 1st Annual Halloween Contest
• Haiga - Resident Artist for Hedgerow Poems (January, February, May, June)
• Haiga - World Haiku Association's Monthly Haiga Contest (January, February, March, May, June, July, October, November, December)
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation Haiga Galleries featuring 39 award-winning poems
• Haiga - The Haiku Foundation HaikuLife Film Festival, "The Poetry of Birds"
• Haiga - Haiku Master of the Week, NHK World TV, Japan, August
• Haiga - Haiku Masters Online Gallery, NHK World TV, Japan, May
• A Year Unfolding - haiku chapbook released by Folded Word, January 27
• A Year Unfolding - Amazon No. 1 New Release in Haiku and Japanese Poetry
• 1st Place Haiku - The Haiku Calendar Competition 2017, Snapshot Press Calendar "May" 2018
• 1st Place Haiku - Autumn Moon Haiku Journal Annual Contest
• Winning Haiku, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
• 2nd Place Haiku - Seven Hills Review Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - Seven Hills Review Penumbra Poetry and Haiku Contest
• Sakura Award, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Vanguard Category, January
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Vanguard Category, August
• Two Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Shintai Category, August
• Editor's Choice Haiku - cattails, April
• Hon. Mention Haiku - The British Haiku Society Awards 2017 (Haiku Section)
• Hon. Mention Haiku - ukiaHaiku Festival 15th Annual Jane Reichhold Int'l Prize
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award Competition
• Hon. Mention Haiku - World Haiku Review, Neo-Classical Category, August
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Irish Haiku Society 10th International Haiku Competition
• Two Selected Haiku - 9th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
• Finalist - Matrix Northern Ireland Science Industry Panel, Haiku Contest
• Judge - Mandy's Pages Annual Tanka Contest
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, June
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, September
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, October
• Cherita Lighthouse Award - The Cherita, December
• Featured Poet - Presence, Issue 59
• Featured Poet - One Man's Maple Moon, Volume 3
• Featured Photographer - The Right Touch of Sun, TSA Members' Anthology
• Featured Photographer - Incense Dreams, December
• Haiku Interview - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational award-winners
• Haiku Registry - The Haiku Foundation Poet Profile
• Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Nomination by Folded Word - A Year Unfolding

2016

• 1st Place Tanka (tie) - San Francisco International Competition for Haiku, Senryu & Tanka
• 1st Place Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• 1st Place Tanka - Mandy's Pages Annual Tanka Contest
• 1st Place Tanka - The British Haiku Society Awards 2016 (Tanka Section)
• Runner-up Tanka - The British Haiku Society Awards 2016 (Tanka Section)
• Certificate of Merit Tanka (Joint 1st) - Japan Poets' Society, 8th Int. Tanka Festival Comp.
• Editor's Choice Tanka - cattails, January
• Warp and Weft, Tanka Threads - March bestseller at McNally Robinson Booksellers
• Grand Prize Haiku - World Haiku Contest, Lyrical Passion Poetry
• 2nd Place Haiku - Bulgarian Haiku Union, 2nd Int. Haiku Contest, "Cherry Blossom"
• 2nd Place Haiku - Craigleigh Poetry Contest
• 2nd Publisher's Choice Award Haibun - KYSO Flash HTP Writing Challenge
• 3rd Place Haiku - World Haiku Review, Shintai Haiku Category, January
• Museum of Haiku Literature Award - Blithe Spirit, Volume 25, Number 4
• Featured Haiku Poet, March - Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Featured Tanka Poet, April - Portage and Slain, interview with Catherine Macdonald
• Two Hon. Mention Haiga - Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition
• Haiga - World Haiku Association's Monthly Haiga Contest (January, February, March, April, May, July, October, November, December)
• Haiga - Resident Artist for Hedgerow Poems (March, April, May, June, July, November)
• Haiga - Yule Gallery, Haigaonline
• Hon. Mention Haiku - 2015-2016 Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award, North Carolina Poetry Society
• Special Mention Haiku - The British Haiku Society Awards 2016 (Haiku Section)
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Neo-Classical Haiku Category, January
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Vanguard Category, June
• Hon. Mention Haiku - World Haiku Review, Vanguard Category, June
• Two Hon. Mention Haiku - World Haiku Review, Shintai Category, June
• Editors' Choices Haiku - The Heron's Nest, Volume 18, Number 2, June
• Hon. Mention Haiku - European Haiku Prize
• 1st Hon. Mention Haiku - Craigleigh Press Poetry Contest
• Judge's Choice Haiku - Craigleigh Press Poetry Contest
• Judge's Choice Haiku - Craigleigh Press Poetry Contest
• Two Selected Haiku - 8th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
• Hon. Mention, Sakura Award, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational
• Short-Listed Haiku for Best-of-Issue Award - Presence, Number 55
• Short-Listed Tanka for Distinctive Scribblings Awards - Eucalypt, Issue 21, December
• Touchstone Nomination for Individual Haiku by Creatrix Editors - Creatrix 33, June 2016

2015

• Commended Tanka - British Haiku Society, Tanka Awards
• Runner-up Tanka - British Haiku Society, Tanka Awards
• Hon. Mention Tanka - Undertow Tanka Review First Annual Tanka Competition
• 2nd Hon. Mention Tanka - United Haiku and Tanka Society Fleeting Words Tanka Competition
• Editor's Choice Tanka - cattails, January
• Warp and Weft, Tanka Threads - full-lenth poetry collection released by Keibooks
• 1st Place Haiku - HSA The Annual Harold G. Henderson Awards for Best Unpublished Haiku
• 1st Place Haiku - Bangor Haiku Group Annual Autumn Moon Haiku Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku (tie) - Irish Haiku Society 8th International Haiku Competition
• Sakura Haiku Award, Canada - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Haiku Canada, Betty Drevniok Award
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Japan Information and Culture Center, Autumn Haiku Contest
• Commended Haiku - Romanian Kukai Group, Fourth Sharpening the Green Pencil Contest
• Two Selected Haiku - 7th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest
• Zatsuei Haiku of Merit - World Haiku Review, Vanguard Category, June
• Award of Excellence Haiga - WHAC8 Commemorative Haiga Contest
• Haiga - World Haiku Association's Monthly Haiga Contest (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)
• Featured Poet/Resident Artist - Hedgerow Poems, August

2014

• Illustration Winner for Front Cover - The Heron's Nest Illustration Contest
• 3rd Place Haiku - United Haiku and Tanka Society, 2nd Annual "aha" Awards
• Hon. Mention Haiku - Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Tokutomi Haiku Contest
• Haiga - World Haiku Association's Monthly Haiga Contest (May, June, July, September, October, November)
• Featured Poet - cattails, September

2013

• Hon. Mention Tanka - World Tanka Competition, Lyrical Passion Poetry
• Hon. Mention Haiku - DIOGEN, Winter Contest
• 3rd Place Haiga - DIOGEN, Winter Contest

Awards for Other Writing:

2012

• 1st Place Fiction - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Fiction Contest
• 3rd Place Non-Fiction - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Non-Fiction Contest

2011

• 1st Place Poetry - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Poetry Contest
• 1st Place Postcard Fiction - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Postcard Fiction Contest
• 3rd Place Poetry - Contemporary Verse 2, Thirty-fifth Anniversary Contest
• The Poetry of Light Abstract Photography Exhibition - Assiniboine Park Conservatory

2010

• 3rd Place Poetry - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Poetry Contest

2009

• Hon. Mention Poetry - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Poetry Contest

2000

• 2nd Place Poetry - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Poetry Contest

1999

• Hon. Mention Poetry - The Writers' Collective/Winnipeg Free Press Poetry Contest