My Awards & Accomplishments

American Fiction Awards as the winner in the Poetry Chapbook Category for  “A Woman in Progress" 

West Virginia Writers, Inc. The Pearl S. Buck Award - Writing for Social Change Second Place for "Persons Unknown" 

 Poetry Is Life Publishing Nature Poetry Contest Second Place for "Blackwater River Canyon"  

 Akron Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Book of 2020 for "If There's No Heaven 

 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award for "If There's No Heaven" 

• WOAP  15th Anniversary Celebration (Dairy Barn Arts Center 5/17/2024)​
• Poetry Alive! (Mac's Back's Books on Coventry, 5/8/2024)
• Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Presents Barbara Marie Minney (Zoom, 4/17/2024)
• Transgender Day of Visibility Reading (Gathering Volumes, 3/30/2024)
• Performance: "Queer in the Holler: An Appalachian Journey of Perseverance" (Appalachian Studies Association Conference, 3/9/2024) 

• Words in the Hills Open Mic (Camp Oty' Okwa (5/11/2024)
• West Virginia Writers Conference Open Mic (Cedar Lakes Conference Center, 6/9/2023)
• Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Open Mic (Zoom. 4/27/2023)
• Elizabeth's Bookshop Open Mic (4/26/2023)
• Tongue-In-Groove Poetry (The Millard Fillmore Presidential Library, 2/19/2023)
• Tongue-In-Groove Poetry (The Millard Fillmore Presidential Library, 1/15/2023)
• Oceanside Library Poetry Near and Afar Open Mic (Zoom, 1/2/2023)