Awards
Herbert L. Hughes Short Story Award
3/20/1985
Rectangle Awards are given to Sigma Tau Delta Society members who have submitted
original works in poetry, critical essay, short story, and
personal/informal essay to
The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle or
The Sigma Tau Delta Review.
Richard Wright Award
2/20/2009
Carolyn Haines was the 2009 recipient of the
Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence.
Harper Lee Award
9/14/2010
Carolyn Haines of Semmes has been named the 2010 recipient of the
Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year. Haines received the award at the Alabama Writers Symposium in Monroeville on
April 30 at the annual luncheon.
LOVEY AWARD
2/5/2011
The short story "The Sugar Cure", featured in the Delta Blues anthology, was awarded
Best Short Story at the Love is Murder Conference.
Reviewers' Choice Award
4/7/2011
Carolyn Haines won in the Best Amateur Sleuth category for
Bone Appetit at the RT Booklovers Convention's
Reviewers' Choice Awards.
Gold Award
5/5/2011
The winning essay at the
22nd Annual Gamma Awards,
A Mockingbird's
Call, originally ran in the Spring 2010 issue of Longleaf Style magazine.