2022 Awards and Publications:
March: Any Other Way won a 2nd HM in the Dr. Lily Peter Memorial Award competition.
February: Scary Scarab won a first-place award in the Arkansas Writers' "Pen Us a Tale" contest. The poem Weather-Related Joy will be published in the summer issue of eMerge! The Young Adult Romance Coffee Date was published, as was the book of poetry Aha! and Ha-Ha.
2021 Awards and Publications:
My article "The Barnum Forer Effect" was published in the February issue of psychology newsletter Cognito.
In the 2021 Norman Galaxy of Writers Contest, I won the following: 1st place, Short Story, Take My Word for It, Obvi; 2nd place, Novel, A Piece of the Puzzle; 3rd place, Children's Fiction, Close Call; 3rd place, Nostalgic Essay, Children of a Lesser Brand; and 3rd place, Nonfiction Feature Article, To Beep or Not to Beep.
My article on writing was published in the February issue of Writers Monthly. I was also on the cover of the magazine.
January: Story What Kind of Person Am I? was published in the OWFI publication The Report.
March: 5 haikus published in Pebbles magazine; Poem I Thought I'd Feel Older published in Writers Monthly.
April: Article What Do You Think of Life Coaches? published in Incognito; Book I Cooked; Therefore, They Ran featured in the column Okie Writers in The Country Connection News.
June: My poem "Heads Bowed, Eyes Down" appeared in Writers Monthly.
August: My poem "Ever So Gently" appears in the anthology Winning Writers' Waltz.
Arkansas Writers Contest: 1st place, Gimme the Creeps, Bringing Up Baby Tap; 1st place, Animal Perspective Award, Cat Goals; 3rd place, Heidelberg Memorial Award, The Threat; 1st HM, Who-Dunnit, You Are Beautiful; 2nd HM, Memoir, Every; 3rd HM, Peggy Vining Memorial Essay, So Be It.
September: Placements in White County Creative Writers Contest: 6) Mystic
Pawn Contest, Honorable Mention, The Face of Misfortune; 8) Happiness
Is Contest, 2nd place, No Brew For You; 10) Whodunnit?
2nd place, One Good Turn Deserves a Murder; 11) Granny
Prewitt Award, 2nd Honorable Mention, I Did It Her Way; 13) Would
You Believe?, 2nd Honorable Mention, Uno, Dos, Tre Leches; 15)
Humorous Essay: You Really Had to Be There, 1st Honorable Mention, Who
Wants In?; and 18) Del
Garrett’s Gimme The Creeps, 2nd Honorable Mention, A Crash of Skeletons
OWFI Annual Contest: Unpublished Nonfiction Book, 2nd place, Marianne, Stop It!; Short, short, young adult story, 3rd place, The Magic of Music.
December: OKC Writers Annua Contest: 2nd place, Feature Article, Shallow Water Drowning; and Honorable Mention in Flash Fction, Azaleas of Hope.
December: Norman Galaxy of Writers:
1st place, Short Story, Take My Word for It, Obvi
2nd place, Novel, A Piece of the Puzzle
3rd place, Children's Fiction, Close Call
3rd place, Nonfiction Feature Article, To Beep or Not To Beep
3rd place, Nostalgic Essay, Children of a Lesser Brand
Limerick published in The Mensa Bulletin as an Honorable Mention winner
2020 awards and publications:
Norman Galaxy of Writers
1st place, Unrhymed Poetry, Solstice
1st place, Unrhymed Poetry, Solstice
1st place, Nostalgia, Card Shark
2nd place, Children's Short Story, The Magic of Music
2nd place, Novel, Never Miss an Opportunity
2nd place, Flash Fiction, Go Ahead
2nd place, Feature Article, Shallow Water Blackout
OKC Writers Contest:
3rd place, Essay, No Brew for You
Honorable Mention, Nostalgia, The Magic of Music
Arkansas Writing Contest:
1st place, Pioneer Library Poetry Contest, Ever So Gently
3rd place, Whodunnit, That's All I'm Saying
2nd Honorable Mention, Prose Contest, Lumbering Love
2nd Honorable Mention, Essay Contest, The Magic of Music
3rd Honorable Mention, Gimme the Creeps Contest, Scary Scarab
3rd Honorable Mention, A Touch of Magic Contest, Conjuring Up Trouble
Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. (OWFI):
1st place, Feature Article: What's The Appeal?
2nd place, Inspirational Article: Sweet World Beyond
3rd place, Blog: Oxford Commas for Sale
1st HM, Prose Humor: Love, Judge Zimmerman
Won an HM in Richard Lederer's Pun Contest, with my entry published in the April/May 2020 Mensa Bulletin
October: 3 haikus on the subject of sight published in Pebbles magazine.
November: Started a free, monthly newsletter available at: https://lisbeth.substack.com.
December: 4 haikus published in Pebbles magazine.
2019 Contest Wins and Publicatons:
Red Wolf Journal: Poem, Goodbye
Visual Verse: Poem, Courting Nothingness
Story, A Ghost Has No Flesh and Bones, The Vault of Terror -- Tales to Tell, Del Garrett Anthology
Script, the Journal of Creative Writers: Poem, Union Between a Man and a Woman
Green Silk Journal: Poem, Beautiful Cold
Culture Cult Anthology, Nocturne: Poem, Dragged Into Nightmares
Guardian Angel Kids: My Brother is My Hero
Taco Bell Journal: Poem, Aromas
Constellations: Poem, Thoughts to Banish
OKC Writers Contest: 3rd place, flash fiction, Card Shark; 3rd place, short story, Off The Menu; 3rd place, nostalgia, Greasy Spoon Boon; 2nd place, humor, Love, Judge Zimmerman; 2nd place, inspirational, Dreams of Sandy; and 1st place, juvenile, Wesley Whistled While Working
Chair of the Norman Galaxy of Writers Annual Writing Contest
The Report: That's a Riddle by Lisbeth L. McCarty (my puzzle contribution); continuing puzzle contributions to The WriteLine, The Choreography of Chlorophyll in The Wild Word, Flash Fiction Story in The Report
OWFI: 1st place in poetry for Heads Bowed, Eyes Down; 2nd place in Inspirational for Dreams of Sandy; 3rd place in adult short story for Peppers and Salt; and 1st Honorable Mention in Nonfiction Feature Article for When Genius Goes Wrong.
Arkansas Writer's Contest:
3rd HM, Gimme the Creeps Short Story, A Ghost Has No Flesh and Bones
2nd HM, Who-Dunnit Short Story, Off the Menu
1st Place, Prose Award, I Am Liza
July, 2019, The WriteLine, published "Epithet for a Would-Be Singer."
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2018
Norman Galaxy of Writers: Bonnie Speers Crème de la Crème winner and 1st place for Adult Short Story Peppers and Salt; 2nd place in Nostaligic Essay for Greasy Spoon Boon; 3rd place in Nonfiction Article for What's the Appeal?; 1st place in Rhymed Poetry for I Refuse; and 2nd place in juvenile fiction for I'll Have That!
OWFI Contest: SHORT-SHORT STORY ADULT FICTION, Honorable Mention, "The Facially-Gifted Queen of Denial"; PLAY: 3rd place, "The Case of the Case Grocery Store"; TECHNICAL ARTICLE: 2nd place, "How to Keep Your Teeth"; JUVENILE SHORT STORY FICTION: 1st place, "Wesley Whistled While Working".
Acceptance into the prestigious World Literature Today intergenerational writing workshop, led by Cuban American writer Archy Obejas. Only four adult students were accepted into the program. (Unfortunately, I was unable to attend).
Oklahoma State Fair Online Photo Competition: Agriculture Category, 1st Place, "Photo of a steer" (Photo was exhibited in the Creative Arts Center at the fair).
PHOTOS: Three photos were published in mphoto.
May: American Bar Association Caption Contest, Lisbeth McCarty’s caption was one of 3 chosen from 115 entries for best cartoon caption. The caption eventually won and was published in The ABA Journal. http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/cartoon_poll_which_
June: Irregular conjugation, published in The Mensa Bulletin (06/19);
July FLASH FICTION CONTEST: Three-word flash fiction story, published in The Report (OWFI publication). (07/18).
Online Prompt Contest: August: The Washington Post Style Invitational Weekly, Week 1285, First-Time Offender.
September: SHORT STORY: "The Facially-Gifted Queen of Denial," published in The Mensa Bulletin.
2015:
December: My photos were the front and back cover of Parnassus, and I had an article featured inside.
2008:
"December Justice" was published in the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System in Norman. 2888 The Oklahoma Bar Journal Vol. 79 — No. 33 — 12/13/2008
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Great achievements.
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