Colleen Anderson

Nominations/Awards

• Barton College 2^nd place for poem “Finding Dionysus” to be published in Crucible 2009
• Awarded BC Arts Council Study Assistance grant to attend the CSSF novel writing workshop 2008
• Judges choice, SFPA poetry contest “Don Quixote’s Quandary” 2008 http://www.sfpoetry.com/2008poetrycontest.html
• Jerry Jazz Musician short fiction contest winner “Cipher” 2007 www.jerryjazzmuscian.com
• Speculative Literature Foundation award nominee “Hold Back the Night” 2003
  http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Awards/SLFFountainAward/2003.php
• 2005 Gaylactic Spectrum Award—shortlisted “Hold Back the Night” 2003 http://www.spectrumawards.org/2005.htm#bestshortshort
• 2^nd place, Pinekone contest “Phoenix Sunset” 1989
• 2^nd place Pinekone contest, judge Charles de Lint “A Matter of View” 1988
• Shari Meakin Bursary first recipient, Burnaby Arts Council 1988
• 15/800−Cross Canada Writers Quarterly competition “Hunger” 1986

Honourable Mentions

• Years Best Science Fiction 22^nd Annual “Hold Back the Night” 2003
• Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: 17^th Annual “Hold Back the Night” 2003
• Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: 10^th Annual “These Proud Trees” 1997
• World Poetry Competition “Aftermath” 1988
• Ursus Press “New Age” 1987
• Ursus Press “Eddying Waters” 1986