Northwest Arkansas Writers

Our People Win Awards!



David Bahnks

  • 2009 - An Old Wizard's Folly, First Place, Stelly Johnson Memorial Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - The Final Door, Third Place, High Hill Press Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.

Velda Brotherton

  • 2008 - Fly With The Mourning Dove is a WILLA Finalist.
  • 2006 - Lifetime Achievement Award, Northwest Arkansas Writers' Workshop
  • 2002 - Creme de la Creme from the Oklahoma Writer's Federation.
  • 1993 - Western Fiction Award, First Place, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 1992 - Western Fiction Award, First Place, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • Plus 3 merit awards from the Arkansas Press Association.

Russell Gayer

  • 2012 - Humorous Short Story, First Place, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2012 - Ozark Writers League Award, Third Place, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2012 - Mighty Mo Award, Third Place, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2012 - Poet Laureate Award , First Honorable Mention, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2012 - Surprise Flash Fiction, Winner, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2012 - The Food Triangle published in Male Extra.
  • 2012 - Dodging Miss Daisy published in Female First.

Bud Hanks

  • 2009 - Cherry Pie, Third Honorable Mention, Caudle Memorial Award, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2009 - The Christmas Treat, Third Honorable Mention, my Favorite Things Creative Non-Fiction Award, Ozark Writers League.
  • 2009 - Booty, First Honorable Mention, Flamingoes and Pop Flies Award, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2009 - First Kill, First Honorable Mention, Oxbow Award, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2009 - What's Your Emergency, First Honorable Mention, Matthew Martin Heroes Award, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2009 - You Accomplished What?, Third Place, Lt. Fred Guidry Award, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2009 - The Christmas Bike, Second Place, Hightower Award, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2009 - The Christmas Bike, First Place, Dan Saults Award, Ozark Writers League.
  • 2008 - Grandmother, Third Place, Siloam Springs Writers.
  • 2008 - A Racy Affair, Third Honorable Mention, White County Creative Writers.
  • 2007 - My Favorite Things, First Honorable Mention, Ozark Creative Writers.

Nancy Hartney

  • 2013 - Cliff Edom Photography Award, First Place, Ozarks Writers League.
  • 2013 - Cliff Edom Photography Award, Second Place, Ozarks Writers League.
  • 2013 - SF/Fantasy/Horror Story, Second Place, Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc.
  • 2012 - Travel Article, First Place, Ozark Creative Writers.
  • 2012 - Short-Short Story, First Place, Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc.
  • 2012 - Short Story, Second Place, Oklahoma Writers Federation Inc.
  • 2012 - The White Oak's Tale, The Best of Frontier Tales Anthology .
  • 2011 - Article, Ozark Mountaineer Magazine.
  • 2011 - Short Story, Cactus Country Publications Anthology.
  • 2011 - Short Story, Voices IV Anthology
  • 2011 - Short Story, Echoes of the Ozarks Anthology.
  • 2010 - Photograph, Storyteller Magazine front cover.
  • 2010 - Short Story, Voices Anthology III.
  • 2010 - Short Story, Voices Anthology III.
  • 2009 - The White Oak's Tale, Frontier Tales ezine.
  • 2007 - Photograph, in North American Fox Hunting calendar.

Ann Holbrook

  • 2010 - Kindred Kindness, Second Honorable Mention, Hightower Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Life Everlasting, First Place in Short Story, Art Affair Annual Literary Contests, Oklahoma City, OK.
  • 2009 - Redemption, Third Honorable Mention, OCW Board of Directors Showcase Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Under Penalty of Law, First Honorable Mention, The Caudle Memorial Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Richard's Example, First Honorable Mention, Hightower Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Life Everlasting, Fourth Place, Writing on Walls III, Storyteller Magazine.
  • 2009 - Becky's Pickle Soup, Second Honorable Mention, Just for Kids Award, Arkansas Writers' Conference.
  • 2009 - Life Everlasting, Third Place, Adult Short Story, Oklahoma Writers Federation Incorporated.
  • 2008 - Coffee Friends, Third Place, My Favorite Things Creative Nonfiction Essay, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2008 - Life Everlasting, First Honorable Mention, OCW Board of Directors Showcase Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2007 - Herman Trisco Harmsmeller, Second Honorable Mention, Clouse Literary Arts and Theatre Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2007 - Abigail, First Place, Write Partners of North Arkansas Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2007 - Reminiscing, Second Honorable Mention, My Favorite Things Creative Nonfiction Essay, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.

Gil Miller

  • 2012 - Escape, Bigfoot Confidential.
  • 2011 - Memories and Mementos, Voices Anthology IV.

Jan Morrill

  • 2010 - Broken Dolls, Third Place, High Hill Press Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - Chicken and Dumpling, Second Honorable Mention, Clouse Literary Arts Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - The Blue Jaguar, Third Honorable Mention, Mid-South Writers Group Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Broken Dolls, First Place, Tricia Johnson-McDuffie Award, Arkansas Writers' Conference.
  • 2009 - Waiting For My Boy, Second Place, Saturday Writers' Flash Fiction Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Sacrifice Rock, First Place, Hot Springs Village Writers' Club Award, Arkansas Writers' Conference.
  • 2009 - Number 756, Second Place, W. H. and Anne Holland Award, Arkansas Writers' Conference.
  • 2009 - Initiation, Second Place, Del Garrett's "Gimme the Creeps" Award, Arkansas Writers' Conference.
  • 2009 - Glory, Lost And Found, Fourth Honorable Mention, Prose Humor, Oklahoma Writers Federation Incorporated.

Duke Pennell

  • 2009 - Spirit On The Mountain, Third Honorable Mention, High Hill Press Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Death Rides a Pale Horse, Second Honorable Mention, Oxbow Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Spirit On The Mountain, Third Place, Tumbleweed Award, White County Creative Writers Conference.

Ruth Rakestraw

  • 2009 - The War for Florida, First Place, Historical, Oklahoma Writers Federation Incorporated.
  • 2009 - Aubrey Roberts' Fight, Third Place, Western Novel, Oklahoma Writers Federation Incorporated.

Dusty Richards

  • 2007 - Comanche Moon won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Original Short Fiction.
  • 2007 - The Horse Creek Incident won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel.
  • 2004 - Inducted into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame.
  • 2004 - The Abilene Trail won the Oklahoma Writer's Federation Fiction Book of the Year Award.
  • 2003 - The Natural won the Oklahoma Writer's Federation Fiction Book of the Year Award.

Staci Troilo

  • 2013 - No Peace in the Quiet, published in The Holiday Cafe online magazine, Spring 2013.
  • 2012 - No Peace in the Quiet won Second Place at the OCW Conference in The Storyteller Magazine category.
  • 2012 - The Den, High Hill Press anthology Bigfoot Confidential: Finally The Truth Revealed.
  • 2012 - Bridging the Five Year Gap, Female First online magazine.
  • 2012 - Dudley, Hot Springs Fine Arts Council anthology.
  • 2012 - Code Blue, Hot Springs Fine Arts Council anthology.
  • 2012 - Rite of Passage, First Place, Teen Fantasy Fiction, A Writer's Universe.
  • 2012 - Untitled Four Line Western, Cactus Country III.
  • 2012 - Warrior of Blanca Peak, TBP in Cactus Country IV.
  • 2012 - Mystery Heir, novel contracted TBP by Goldminds Publishing.

Ruth Weeks

  • 2010 - Risky Business, First Place, Creative Non-Fiction, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - The Witch of Moon Hollow, First Place, Short Story: Clouse Literary Arts Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - A Box of Rocks, First Place, Short Story: Hightower Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - The Legend of Dixie Dandelion, Third Place, Oxbow Award for Western Novel, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - The Jesus Cat, First Honorable Mention, Short Story: Matthew Martin Heroes Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2010 - Still, Small Voice, First Honorable Mention, Short Story: Mighty Mo Award, Ozark Creative Writers Conference.
  • 2009 - Second Chances took 1st Place in The Sage Journal Writer's Contest.