Recommended Title

Ann of Sunflower Lane by Julie A. Sellers has been selected as a “Recommended Title” by the Kansas National Education Association’s Reading Circle Commission.

Creative Writing Awards & Recognitions

• “Never Forget You’re a Harvey Girl.” Long-listed Finalist, 2025 History Through Fiction Short Story Contest
• “The Permanence of Light.” Long-Listed Finalist, Cheribun Challenge. MacQueen’s Quinterly (2024)
• Finalist, 2023 High Plains Book Award (Young Adult)-Ann of Sunflower Lane
• Kansas Authors Club Prose Writer of the Year (2020, 2022, 2023, 2025)
• Winner, Writer’s Digest Poetic Form Challenge (Kimo)
• Overall Poetry Winner, Kansas Voices Contest (2022)
• Overall Prose Winner, Kansas Voices Contest (2017, 2019, 2024)
• The K-Stater Writing Contest Winner (2009 & 2012)

Academic Writing Awards

• 2020 Honorable Mention, Guy Alexandre Paper Prize, Latin American Studies Association Haiti/Dominican Republic Section for “From Radio Guarachita to El Tieto eShow: Bachata’s Imagined Communities.”
• 2018 Kansas Authors Club It Looks Like A Million Award for The Modern Bachateros: 27 Interviews.
• 2015 Hispanic Culture Review Contest: Best Essay, “‘Love Will Make Them Musicians:’ Bachata’s Courtly Inheritance.”