Member Awards

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.

A call to activism for today's youth, Shoshannah Boray's TYA play  "Cassandra Syndrome" garnered 2nd place in the BHTG Playwright Competition for Youth Theatre.

Step-Sisters by Shoshannah Boray earned an honorable mention in 2020's NET Aurand Harris Awards for TYA.

Member Dale Griffiths Stamos has received the Bill Paxton Award from the Ojai Film Festival for the short film she wrote and directed: "Entwined." 

The playwriting team of Susan and Doug Decatur had their full length play, Unfinished Business selected as a Second Round winner in the Austin Film Festival playwriting competition in addition to being chosen as a semi-finalist in the ScreenCraft 2020 playwriting competition. The play was also selected to receive a staged reading at Cincinnati Playwright Initiative's 2021 season. 

Sharon Baker's two act comedy, BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE DALAI LAMA'S PALACE received a reading on Zoom, July 19, 2pm.

Presented by the Dramatists Guild of America in their Footlights New Plays program, the reading was videotaped. Anyone wishing to

see the reading, contact Sharon Baker, email: sharonspencelieb@gmail.com.

My play, "The Docent" is the winner of the 2020 Jerry Kaufman Award for Excellence in Playwriting given each year by American Renaissance Theatre Company.