Awards & Honours

2024
  • 1st Place Haiku (joint) - Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest ("cattle roundup")
  • 1st Place Haiku - Triveni Awards ("refugee train")
  • 2nd Place Haiku - Betty Drevniok Award ("scrub jay")
  • Runner-up Haiku - Haiku Calendar Competition, Snapshot Press Calendar, Aug/25 ("foreclosure")
  • Hon. Mention Haiku - Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest ("the arabesque")
  • 2 Shortlisted Haiku - Dwarf Stars, The Very Best Short Speculative Poems ("peat fire/galactic wind")
  • Shortlisted Haiku - Best-of-Issue, Presence Number 78 ("rural bus stop")
  • 2 Selected Haiku - 16th Yamadera Basho Museum Contest ("blue butterfly/winter into spring")
  • Editor's Choice Senryu - Cattails, October ("probate")
  • Nominated Haiku for Touchstone Award - Humana Obscura 9, Summer ("solar eclipse")

  • 2nd Place Tanka - Fleeting Words Tanka Contest ("unopened cones")
  • 2nd Place Tanka - Fujisan Tanka Contest ("I climb higher")
  • Distinctive Scribblings Tanka Award - Eucalypt 36, May ("bull kelp grows")
  • Best-of Issue Tanka Award - Time Haiku, Number 60, August ("paper-thin roses")
  • Hon. Mention Tanka - Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest ("an arbutus")

  • 2nd Place Haiga - Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition ("quickening")
  • Editor's Choice Haiga - Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 8, June ("what will you be")
  • Editor's Choice Haiga - Haiga in Focus, Issue 73, July ("neural pathways")
  • Haiga Gallery - The Haiku Foundation, September
  • Haiga Gallery - Cafe Haiku, A Decade of Joy - Retrospective, September
  • Haiga Gallery - Akita International Haiku Network, September

  • Honourable Mention Vispo - Sonic Boom Annual Vispo Contest Gallery ("Depression Era")
  • Selected Collage - Sonic Boom World Collage Day e-book ("bone-deep")

  • Haiku Book - Random Blue Sparks, Snapshot Press Book Award Winner, forthcoming
  • Interview - Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 9, August
  • Essay - The Haiku Foundation, Haiga for Healing (Parkinson's Feature), September
  • Essay - One Thread: Zoka in Contemporary Haiku, August
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 - Folk Ku, Issue 3 ("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, 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, 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, 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




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