Awards and Press

Azure won the Brave New Weird Award, and is in their upcoming anthology: Brave New Weird, vol. III.

fairy, pixie, elf, magic, fantasy, creature, character, fairytale, enchanted, wings, magical, fairy, fairy, fairy, pixie, pixie, pixie, pixie, pixie, elf, elf, elf-2196822.jpg

A very kind review of Azure’s poem, “The Pixies are in the Attic” came from Chris Hubbs.

Azure’s story, “Flight Pattern,” which was published in Uncharted March 2024, was listed as a must read short speculative fiction by Reactor.

Rebecca E. Treasure did a mini review of Azure’s story, Susurrus, which appeared in Zooscape Magazine.

Susurrus, which appeared in Zooscape Magazine, was also reviewed by Charles Payseur for Locus.

Writers of the Future, vol. 38, which features Azure’s story, “Agatha’s Monster,” won again! This time, it was a gold Ippy award for independent publishing.

One of the anthologies that Azure is in, Writers of the Future, vol. 38, won an Independent Publishers Book Award, the gold Benjamin Franklin Award for science fiction and fantasy.

Guess who was on Tangent’s 2022 Recommended Reading List? 

Azure was interviewed on Chatting with Sherri. You can listen to the interview here.

Another Tangent review! Read it here.

A lovely review of Agatha’s Monster was given by A Quill to Live. You can read the review here.

An article from her hometown of Flint, Michigan from the Flint, Courier.

Azure received a certificate of excellence from the NAACP.

Azure with authors, Nnedi Okorafor (left) and Em Dupree (right). A Hollywood Press article from Hudson Valley can be found here.

Azure placed 3rd in L Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. Winners were announced here. You can and SHOULD pick up a copy here.

One of Azure’s first, published science fiction stories, The Last Memory, which appeared in Aurealis, Issue 140, was reviewed here.

In 2013, Azure placed second in the statewide Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) competition. You can read more about that here.