 The EXSE Spoken Word Showcase 2009 produced in honor of National Poetry Month. Ute was invited to read one of her award-winning poems in Austin, Texas. Mummum's Lebanese Meat Pies - Honorable Mention Hit the Road - Editor's Choice Award, Poem.com, Managing Editor Howard Ely The Fall - Grand Prize for Prose, A Walk Through My Garden, edited by Whitney Scott, Outrider Press, Inc., 2007 Song of Autumn - Winning Traditional Poem - April 2007, 1st Place Free Verse Poem, Lyrical Passion Entertainment, LLC I Will Still Miss The Yearning - TEXAS SENIOR POET LAUREATE HONOR SCROLL AWARD (2007) given by Amy Kitchener's Angels Without Wings Foundation, Inc. White Feathers - Poet of Distinction 2007 - Florence Poets Society Success - Second Place Winner in the Blind Press Bi-Annual Poetry Contest: Autumn 2006. Stirring - Third place in the Eugene Walter Writers' Festival Vivian Smallwood Poetry Competition 2006. Three Coins in a Fountain - On the first day of August, 2006, the Dana Literary Society is pleased to confer this Certificate of Excellence on Ute Carson for the creation of "Three Coins in a Fountain," an essay about hurricane Rita. The Device, Third Place Award in the anthology, Vacations: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, edited by Whitney Scott, Outrider Press, Inc., 2006 SLS/St. Petersburg-06 Literary Contest. Ute Carson was awarded a partial tuition fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia, for her poem "The Old Woman." Colt Tailing, Finalist for the Tennessee 2003 Peter Taylor Book Ward Prize for the Novel, a competition with 400 submissions and five finalists chosen. Muttermund, Third Place in the Judith Siegel Pearson 2003 Award Competition. The Owl, Honorable Mention in the 2002 New York Stories' Fiction Contest. Beneath the Wings of the Great Blue Heron, Third Place in the 1992 Annual Texas Writers Guild Competition. SELECTED FOR SPECIAL MENTION Noted in the review by Deborah Donovan of BOOKLIST Magazine selected for quotation/special mention. Falling in Love Again: Love the Second Time, Edited by Whitney Scott, Outrider Press, 2005. "Outrider Press' annual anthology series marks its tenth anniversary with this diverse and thought-provoking collection of poetry and short stories exploring the joy and surprise of old love rekindled, forgotten friendships restored, and old haunts rediscovered. After the lure of an unattached life which drives a middle-aged woman away from her patient and long-suffering third husband in Ute Carson's Gypsy Spirit, she reunites with her third, who finally understands her wanderlust. In Bertil Falka's tale, 60-year-old Lillith returns to New York after 35 years of caring for her ailing mother in Los Angeles and marries the suitor she refused all those years ago. March Darin portrays a 50-year-old woman enjoying a brief affair with a younger artist. In Maria Loggie-Keea's My Daughter, My Love, a young wife mourns after a a miscarriage only to experience the boundless love for her daughter born 10 months later, learning that love and loss come in many forms. This invigorating and impressive collection showcases 59 contributors from around the world, all members of the TallGrass Writers Guild."
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