Awards

My short story collection, HOW WE FRACTURE, won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize. The collection is scheduled to be published by Minerva Rising Press in January 2024.

A big thank you to Brooke Schultz, who designed the lovely cover. I'm also deeply thankful for all those at Minerva Rising Press who have been working to bring my first book-length fiction work into print: Executive Editor Kim Brown, Fiction Editor Nikki Kallio, and Fiction Editorial Assistant Paula Sàbat Martínez. I'm deeply grateful to the judge Anjali Enjeti for selecting my manuscript from the finalists for the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize. 

Kentucky Visions Short Story  Contest Winner

My short story, “What You Don’t Know,” that takes place on Anderson Ferry, which crosses The Ohio River from Constance, Kentucky to Delhi, Ohio, was awarded first place in the inaugural Kentucky Visions Short Story Contest at the Kentucky State Capitol Rotunda. All 16 finalists’ stories were published in a commemorative anthology by The Bluegrass Writers Coalition who sponsored the contest. 

My poem “Because every moment’s an occasion for attention” won the 2022 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I will be the judge for the 2023 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest, deadline February 1, 2023: Contest Guidelines – Slippery Elm (findlay.edu).

My poem "Emily Carr’s Zunoqua of the Cat Village, 1931" was nominated for Best of the Net by OyeDrum.

My short story collection, How We Fracture, won the Rosemary Daniell Fiction Prize, and is forthcoming from Minerva Rising Press in Spring 2023. 

Longlisted for Invisible City’s 2022 Blurred Genres Flash Fiction Contest

 

An excerpt from my novel-in-progress was longlisted for the 2021 Novel Excerpt Contest at The Masters Review

 

My flash fiction “To the Man on Crutches Lumbering through Sand Dunes to the Atlantic” was a finalist in the 2021 Hemingway Shorts Contest, held annually by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. It will be published in the literary journal, Hemingway Shorts, Vol 6. 

 

Was a finalist in The Ekphrastic Review’s 2021 Women Artists Ekphrastic Contest. Women Artists Contest: the Finalists. Congratulations! - The Ekphrastic Review

 

My poem “All Night Long I Dream of Paintings,” published in Blue Heron Review Issue 12 Spring 2021  was nominated for a Pushcart Prize

 

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by 94 Creations, 2014

 

Judge's Choice Award in Still: The Journal's Contest, 2014. www.stilljournal.net/karen-georgecontest2014.php

 

Honorable Mention in Accents Publishing's 2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest

 

First Runner-up in 94 Creations Literary Journal's poetry contest, 2014

 

Third Place in the National League of American Pen Women’s Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, 2013

 

Writer's Residency, Wildacres Retreat Center, NC, 2012

 

Writer's Residency, Writers in the Heartland, IL, 2012

Winner of the Cincinnati Public Library's Poetry in the Garden 2012 Poetry Contest

 

First place in The Carnegie Center's Next Best Writer Contest, 2011

 

Third place in the Hocking Hills Power of Poetry Festival, 2010

 

Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, 2010

 

Janice Giles Holt Award for Short Fiction, 2008

 

Merit Scholarship from Spalding University, 2007

 

Scholarship to Midwest Writers Workshop, Ball State University, 2004

 

Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council, 2001