Writing Awards
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
–Richard Bach
Recent Writing Awards
* How to Handle Your Emojis won 1st place (young adult book category).
* How to Handle Your Emojis won “Grand Winner” with the highest score of all contest manuscripts in all fiction and nonfiction categories.
* The Christian Writer’s Compass won 1st place (book length nonfiction category).
* How to Handle Your Emojis won 1st place (devotional book category).
* Adrift won 3rd place (young adult fiction category).
* Counting Time won Honorable Mention (short fiction category).
* How to Handle Your Emojis won 1st place (unpublished young adult nonfiction category).
* Adrift won 2nd place (unpublished young adult fiction category).
* The Christian Writer’s Compass won 3rd place (unpublished adult nonfiction category).
* Lost in a Savage Paradise won 2nd place (unpublished young adult fiction category).
* Awesome Facts About Space won 2nd place (Youth Book of the Year category).
* Awesome Facts About Space earned an honorable mention in the Spiritual/Religious category.
* Mark’s nonfiction manuscript Writing Christian Fiction won 1st place (nonfiction book category).
* Mark’s manuscript Adrift won 2nd place (young adult novel category).
* “A Pocketful of Change” won 2nd place in the short story category.
* Awesome Facts About Space won Book of the Year in the children’s through young adult category.
* Awesome Facts About Space won 1st place in the “Children’s Literature” category.
* Adrift won 3rd place in the young adult category.
* Awesome Facts About Space won 1st place in the “Education” category.
* Awesome Facts About Space was a finalist in the “Children’s and Young Adult” category.
* Mark won 1st Place (magazine article category) for “Once Upon a Time . . .” in the Journal for Christian Educators.
* Mark’s essay “Aesthetics and Ethics within Art” won the writing contest hosted by the Center for the Foundation of Ethics.
* Mark’s middle grade story “The Case of the Missing Silver Star” was a finalist.
* Mark’s 7,500-word story “Fateful Decision,” earned an honorable mention within the short story category.
* In this Evangelical Press Association contest, two of Mark’s Answers in Genesis articles won 3rd and 4th place in the Titles category.
* Mark’s middle grade story “The Case of the Mysterious Pranks” was a finalist (published writers category).
* Mark’s novel Trapped in a Hot Air Balloon won 2nd place in the Middle Grade fiction category.
* Trapped in a Hot Air Balloon was a finalist in the Children / Young Adult category.