Novel "Inkling," awarded fourth place overall, Single Title category, Coeur de Louisiane's 2005 Romancing the Tome Contest. (Agent Paige Wheeler, finalist judge)
2003 United Way Community Services annual campaign video, “What Matters,” awarded first place at the United Way Great Rivers Communications Contest
1994-95 Annual Report, Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, IABC Honorable Mention (Annual Report 1-3 color category).
“Romance,” awarded first place in the 1993 Paul Laurence Dunbar poetry contest sponsored by the Detroit Writers Guild.
“Milagro” (poetry) featured in the Metro Times 1992 annual Summer Fiction Issue.
Best Women's Section, 1991 and 1992 by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) for Michigan Chronicle’s Compositions section.
Third place, Best Feature category, 1991 by NNPA for “Lula Belle Stewart Center: Making a Way for Teen Moms to Succeed.” (Michigan Chronicle)