LITERARY HONORS AND AWARDS

First Prize, Columns in a Weekly Newspaper, NC Press Association, 1975.

First Prize, Fiction, for "The Weekend," Crucible, 1975.

Thomas H. McDill Award for "The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat," NC Poetry Society, 1982.

Carl Sandburg Award for "Mary's Dream," NC Poetry Society, 1983.

Thomas H. McDill Award for "Poem for Robert Bly," NC Poetry Society, 1986.

Thomas H. McDill Award for "First Love," NC Poetry Society, 1986

Pulitzer Prize nomination for "The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat", 1989

First Prize for Poetry, "Longings," Crucible, 1989

Jazmes Larkin Pearson Prize for "Of Catchers," NC Poetry Council, 1989

Sam Ragan Award for "The Poet, the Lovers and the Nuns," Crucible, 1990.

Sam Ragan Award for Service to the Arts Community in NC, St. Andrews College, 1996.

Novello Festival Award for "Leaving Maggie Hope," 2003.

First Prize, Oscar Arnold Young Award, Best Book of Poems by a NC Author, North Carolina  Poetry Council, 2006.

Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts, Central Piedmont Community College, 2008.

James Larkin Pearson Award for "After Vespers," NC Poetry Council, 2009.

TEACHING HONORS AND VISITING POSITIONS

Thomas Jefferson Award, Davidson College, 1969.

Visiting Lecturer in English, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1977.

Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award, Davidson College, 1997.

Writer-in-Residence, Lenoir-Rhyne College, 2007.

Visiting Professor, Fiction Writing, Catawba College, 2009.