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HONORABLE MENTION - Jesse Stuart Invitational Literary Festival for the poem "The Prisoner" 1983
WINNER of EOTU Ezine's contest of "What Does EOTU Stand For?" 2004
SECOND PLACE Charles H. Schubert Award 2004 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest for the poem "Such Are the Lives of
Football Fans"
SECOND HONORABLE MENTION Deborah Madden Memorial 2004 Kentucky State Poetry Sociey Contest for the poem "Living Dead
Girl"
SELECTED for inclusion in Poets & Writers' DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS AND FICTION WRITERS as a poet in February
2005
HONORABLE MENTION Bloodcookies Fake Rejection Letter Contest June 2005
# 1 BEST SELLER on ProjectPulp.com for 7/16/05 - 7/31/05 for poetry chapbook EEKU
HONORABLE MENTION in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighteenth Annual Collection for the poem "Absolute
Zero" published in EOTU Ezine September 2004
HONORABLE MENTION in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighteenth Annual Collection for the poem "Unspoken"
published in Aoife's Kiss December 2004
FIRST PLACE Mary Jane Barnes Award 2005 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest for the poem "A Survivor of the Titanic
Remembers"
THIRD PLACE Living in Oblivion 2005 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest for the poem "When We Were Wealthy"
FIRST HONORABLE MENTION Ben Ray Memorial 2005 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest for the poem "Ode to
the Old Oakview"
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| How Message Boards Can be Helpful or Hurtful to Writers |
RUNNER-UP Champagne Shivers Demented Nursery Rhymes Contest 2006 for the poem "Burning Mad"
THIRD PLACE, Balticon 40 Poetry Contest for the poem "The Missing Link"
SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN BEST OF AFTERBURN SF for my story "The Reunion" (editor's choice).
Poem from my poetry collection EEKU was chosen for inclusion in DWARF STARS 2006, an anthology of the
best short-short (ten lines and under) science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry published in 2005.
SELECTED FOR INCLUSION in 2006/2007 CAMBRIDGE WHO'S WHO AMONG PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN WRITING AND PUBLISHING "HONORS EDITION"
WINNER The Lorelei Signal's Readers' Poll for poetry, Oct-Dec 2006 issue
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| Karen L. Newman |
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| The Sands of Kentucky |
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| Using Message Boards Effectively |
SECOND PLACE for The Heartland Review Prize in the 2007 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest for the poem "Sense of
Loss"
POPULAR ARTICLE NOTATION, Firefox News, for review of episodes six, seven, nine, eleven, and twelve of the
television series The Middleman, four reviews and two articles concerning the soap opera Guiding Light, and the articles
"The Middleman at Comic-Con 2008" and "Stargate Atlantis Cancelled, a New Universe Begins" (coauthored with Melissa Wilson)
HONORABLE MENTION, Space Western Senryu Contest, 2008, for the poem "on the range"
Poem ("Bleach") from my poetry collection ChemICKals was chosen for inclusion in DWARF STARS 2008,
an anthology of the best short-short (ten lines and under) science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry published in 2007.
Poem "Internet Witch" nominated for a Rhysling Award.
THIRD PLACE: 2009 Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest, Category: Jim Proctor Memorial for the poem (haiku sequence)
"A Year in Appalachia"
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| Karen L. Newman |
| Nonfiction Article |
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| A Stark Interview with Christopher Conlon, published in The Black Glove |
NOMINATED for a James B. Baker Award in nonfiction for my review of Cyborg Chimera by Shelly Bryant in Scifaikuest.
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