Awards and Grants
2007 – Honor Recipient, The Carter G. Woodson Book Award, sponsored by the National Council for the Social Studies. Growing Season was one of only six books selected nationally to receive a book award or honor book award for 2007
2007 – Winner, the 2007 Ohioana book award. The Ohioana Library Association selected Growing Season as one of seven winners for 2007. Over 800 books in five categories, written by Ohio authors or about Ohio, were judged
2007 – Finalist, The 2007 Great Lakes Book Awards, sponsored by the Great Lakes Booksellers Association. 16 books in three categories were selected as finalists
2006 – Individual Artist Grant for photography, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
2007 – March Press Release: Growing Season is a finalist for the 2007 Ohioana book award. Winners will be announced in August 2007.
2006 – Individual Artist Grant for photography – Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
2005 – Artists and Communities Grant, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio
2005 – The James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award – Ohio News Photographers Association Pictures of the Year Competition
Worth Noting
Summer 2007 – Akron Life and Leisure received a second-place for magazine features (general) from the annual Ohio Excellence in Journalism awards, hosted by the Cleveland Press Club for the feature story on Growing Season, “In The Trenches” by Denise Henry
Summer 2007 – WKSU-FM News Staff, received a first-place award in the special reporting series from the Ohio Professional Writers, Inc. for the feature story that included a story on Growing Season, “Here goes the Neighborhood”
Winter 2007 – Feature story in the February 2007 issue of News Photographer, the monthly publication of the National Press Photographers Association
Fall 2006 - Featured story, 11 pages, In the November 2006 Issue of The Sun.
Spring 2006 - Featured story, 12 pages, in the inaugural return of Double Take magazine (now called Double Take / Points of Entry)
Spring 2006 - Statements of support from well-known photojournalist and educator David LaBelle, and Terry Lee, co-editor, Double Take / Points of Entry.
Winter 2006 - Robert Coles, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University, writes the foreword to the book
Winter 2006 – Selected book for the city of Canton, Ohio, One Book, One Community program through the mayor’s literacy initiative
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