Award-Winning
Literary Works

This is the Place	Harkening	Tracings
Celebration Series of Chapbooks Co-Authored with Magdalena Ball

	She Wore Emerald Then	Imagining the Future	Cherished Pulse	Blooming Red	Deeper Into The Pond

Carolyn's fiction include multi award-winning
This Is the Place and Harkening.
Many of her chapbooks of poetry are award-winners, too.

Awards and Accolades
for This is The Place and Harkening

Carolyn's Published Literary Works
Literary Journals, Anthologies, Essays and Columns

ANTHOLOGIES  ! Pass Fail: Ed: Rose A. O. Kleidon. Kleidon Publishing. An anthology of stories about experiences in education. ! Calliope's Mousepad: .Humane Society:. By invitation. Ed: Sarah Mankowski. ! Mothers of Writers: By invitation. Publish America, Fredericksburg, MD. ! The Joy of Cancer: By invitation. Edited by Brenda Avakian, M.A. Published i2003.  ! Feminine Writes: By invitation. Edited by Sheri. L. McConnell: founder, National Assoc. of Women Writers.  ! Artists for a Better World: Poem. "Peril."  ! Paws and Whiskers: Short story, "Humane Society."  ! Holiday Writes, edited by Betty Dobson, assorted poems.

PUBLICATIONS

• Penumbra, Calif. State Univ. Stanislaus. Literary journal: Short story, .Helper, 2003.
  Copperfield Review: Excerpt TITP summer, 2002; Poem “Peril,” 2003.
  The Banyan Review: Short story .Grandfather Rock, July, 2003.
  Sparks Magazine Poem “Woman’s Day,” 2003.
  Subtle Tea Poem “Woman’s Day,” 2003.
  The Feminist Journal: Poem “Woman’s Day,” 2003.
  Yarrow Brook Review: Poem ”Where I Am,” 2002.
  Flash fiction, .Remembering Joe, 2003.
  Poetic Voices: Villanelle “Adaptation,” 2003.
  Lunarosity: Poem, “.Pleading for Sylvia,” 2004.
  Mochila Review: Poem “Big Screen Snack,” 2004.
  Long Story Short: Poems, “Bon Sai,”. 2004; “Woman’s Day,” 2004; Short story, “A Not-So-Stupid-Crook Story,” 2004; “Shopping on Robertson,” 2004; Poem, “Children Today Don.t Have Enough Leisure Time,” 2004, “Musing Over a New Calendar” and .”New Year,” 2005.
  Apollo’s Lyre: Poem, “Deciphering Sound,” 2004.
  The Pedestal Magazine: Poem, “Olvera Street Tutorial,” 2004.
  The Literary Mama: Short story “Finding the Way,” 2004.
  The Journal of the Image Warehouse: Poems, “The Dangerous Lizard of Gabon,” “Poetry be Damned,” and “Perfectly Flawed.”
  Re)verb: Poem .”Faith in LA,”.2005.
  Mindprints: Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA., Poem “Bon Sai,” 2005.
  Edifice Wrecked: Literary Journal, poem “Shelf Life,” 2004
  Top 7 Business, Edited by Christopher M. Knight
  Sunspinner Magazine: Poem, “Olvera Street Tutorial,” 2005
  The Beat (Literary Magazine): Harkening Excerpt, “Neighbors,” 2005
  Mary, Mt. St. Mary’s College Journal, 2005.
  Niederngasse, an international journal “Eavesdropping at the “Writers’ Faire,” 2005.
  Penwomanship, Poem, “Antigua’s Hope,” 2005.
  Barricade, Edited by John Newmark, “Upon Safety,” “Illusion” and a “New Way to Think,” 2005.
  Travelers’ Tales, Excerpt “Ever Heard of Terezin?” 2006.
  A-pos-tro-phe: Poem “The Lecture: Incomplete Considerately Abridged."
  Riley Dog: Excerpt from a poem “The Lecture: Incomplete and Considerately Abridged,” 2006.
  Subtle Tea, edited by D. Herrle, Poems, “Learning About Sex When All Else Fails” and “Another Day.” 2006.
  Under the Roc, Poem, “Shelf-Life,” 2007
  Lunarosity, Short short story, “Artemis,” 2007.
  Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal , “Dandelions in Autumn,” 2007
  Romance Writers Report: “Query Letter No-Nos,” 2008.
  Coffee Press Journal, poem, “The Fragile Art of Warfare,” 2007.
  Life in the USA, short story, “A Not-So-Stupid-Crook Story,” 2007.
  Fiction Flyer, flash fiction, “Trying to Love Artemis,” 2008.
  Pear Noir, poetry journal, “Death by Ferris Wheel,” 2009.
  Montana, Writings from the River. associated with State University’, poem ”Clarion Call,” 2009
  Dash, poetry journal of the Creative Writing Club and Department of English, Comparative Literature and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton. “Long Before They Closed Down the Napster,” Spring 200?
  Long Range Literary Journal, associated with Montana State University short story “Grandfather Rock,” 2010.
  Manzanita Literary Journal, associated with Calaveras Arts Council poem, “Sacred Stories of the Sierras,” 2011.
  Solo Novo 2011: Wall Scrawls published by Solo Press, a poem, “Inevitably Walls,” 2011.
  Cyclamens and Swords, "Looking forward", "Asthma", "Agonal" and "Realizing expectations on my own postpartum schedule,” December 2011

COLUMNIST

·        MyShelf.com

·        Book Review Café.com

·        Sell Writing Online.com

·        Home Décor Buyer

·        Pasadena Star News

·        Salt Lake Tribune

·        Authors Almanac

·        Writers’ Journal

CONTRIBUTOR

·    Effort and Surrender by Eric Dinyer, Andrews McMeel Publishers: wrote the introduction.

·        Support Our Troops by Eric Dinyer: wrote the introduction

·        Cooking by the Book: intended to feed readers’.appetites for books as well as their tummies

·        Musings: Authors Do It Write!: A Collection of essays from twelve international writers.

BOOK CLUBS:

• NUW’s Selection: This Is the Place, 2002; Harkening, 2003.

 PROFESSIONAL

·        UCLA Extension Writers Program, instructor

·        Founder, Facilitator Critique Group, Glendale Library System

·        Yarrow Brook Literary Review: Editorial

·        G.A.P., publisher, advisory board

·        Maguire-Gisby Associates, publicists, advisory board

·        Poets & Writers: Listed in Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers.

OTHER

·        Glendale News-Press, Book, Movie and Theater Reviews

·        ApplosLyre.com

·        SellWritingOnline.com

·        MyShelf.com

·        And several other Web sites and online newsletters.

 RETAIL FREELANCE

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What Others are Saying About
Carolyn's Literary Works

Endorsements for This is the Place

“[This Is the Place] instills the conflicts of Mormonism so gracefully and incisively.”
~ James W. Ure, author of Leaving the Fold

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“It's been a week … and still the characters fight for attention in my thoughts.”
~ Warren Stucki, author of Boy’s Pond

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