A collection of eight prized plays. "Sassing the Sphinx" commissioned for the first Robert Frost Symposium 'Celebrating Robert Frost: An International Conference' Winthrop University, 1997. "Women of the Condor" honorable mention as a short story, Twelfth Consecutive New Millennium Writing Awards, 2001. "Lillie Langtry's 'Lash La Rue Sweet Potatoes'" quarter-finalist as a screen play, Lone Star Screenplay Competition, 1997. "Boo Radley and the Village People" honorable mention as a poem, Long Poem Contest, Rhyme Time, 2002. "Ms. Spam Maps of Vegas" winner Florida First Coast Writers' Festival Playwriting Contest, 2006. "Death Nell" winnerTampa Writers Alliance Play/Screenplay Competition, 2005. "Gnat" award Paul Green Multi-Media Award, North Carolina Society of Historians, 1996. "Second-Time-Around" winner Judith Siegel Pearson Award, Wayne State University, 2008.