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Awards and Honors
Okay, you might call this my "brag" page. I haven't won any major awards, but still, there are plenty of writers who've never been able to achieve publication on any level other than self-publishing. A James Award is a blind, independenty judged award for the best story, poem, article, art, etc. published in Sam's Dot Publishing's many magazines for that year. I consider it an honor, since, there are several nominees each year who don't win. There are also many writers whose works are not nominated, not to mention those writers whose work was not accepted for publication. So allow me to sound my own horn a bit, even if it's not very loud, because I've learned no one else will sound it for me.
2002 - Poetry
"Mare Insanitatus"
2003 - Story
"Rejection Letter"
2005 - Story
"Render Unto Karak"
Nominations:
2003 - Poetry "A Sea of Stars"
2004 - Poetry "On the Back of the Moon
2006 - Article "Frustrated Fiction Writers"
2007 - Story "Portrait of a Weeping Soldier"
2003 - 3rd Place Award, Fiction Category
Christopher Newport University Writing Competion
2004 - Voted among top ten internet authors
Preditors and Editors Poll
2006 - "Friends in Dark Places" listed as "notable novel"
in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
2007 - A story, "Going Native" (1st published in "Be Mine" anthology, 2004) is selected for publication in Exotic Gothic, an anthology used in an International Studies Course in Gothic and Horror Literature.
2008 - A story, "Monkey Bottom," is accepted for Exotic Gothic 2, which is used in the same course.
I'm especially proud that Professor Danel Olson, of North Harris University, i included me in this course syllabus, which includes authors such as Joyce Carole Oates, T.C Boyle, Neil Gaiman, William Faulkner and Stephen King, among others. I'm honored to be in such fine company.
John Bushore - Fiction Writer
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