Member Awards

ME TALKING 2 ME will be performed for the first time in Florida at Theatre Odyssey's One-Act Play Festival, October 14 through 17, at the Bradenton Kiwanis Theater at Manatee Performing Arts Center in Sarasota, Florida!

My full-length play JUGGLING WITH MR. FIELDS was a finalist for Southwest Theatre Productions 2020 New Play Contest featuring a male lead who undergoes an emotional transformation.

Cristina A. Bejan wins the 2021 Human Relations Book Award for her debut poetry collection "Green Horses on the Walls" (Finishing Line Press, 2020). She is awarded in two categories: Historical (Gold Winner) & Honorable Mention (Personal Growth Poetry).

2020-2021 Winners of the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women:

First Place Award ($1000.00): The Killing of Kings (part 1) by Nadira Simone

Second Place Award ($500.00): The Docent by Donna Kaz

Third Place Award ($250.00): Midnight Showing by Libby Heily

Donna Kaz's Playwriting Intensive for Women begins this month (May 2021).  For more information: https://kazconference.submittable.com/submit/179568/playwriting-intensive-for-women-may-2021

Dale won Best Short Film award from Borrego Springs Film Festival 2021 for the short film she wrote and directed, "Entwined."

Cristina A. Bejan, PhD (stage-name "Lady Godiva") just won the 2020 Independent Press Book Award for her debut spoken word poetry collection "Green Horses on the Walls" (Finishing Line Press). Bejan lives in Denver, Colorado where she runs the local & international arts collective Bucharest Inside the Beltway.

Finalist in Creative Nonfiction for Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men's Prison.

Gold medal in Social Justice, finalist in Memoir for 

Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men's Prison.

As a member of Cenaclul Românesc “Mircea Eliade” (Romanian literary circle in Denver, CO) Cristina A. Bejan was awarded the 2021 “Diploma of Excellence” for promoting Romanian culture

Catherine Frid received a Canada Council for the Arts grant to co-create a Forum theatre play with older adults and hope and resilience in response to depression, medical assistance in dying, and suicide. This new work will tour in 2022.