Publication History
and Awards

Marian Allen

Poetry, short fiction, articles:

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Innisfree (poetry)
Yandro (poetry)
Space & Time (poetry)
Literally (poetry and short story contest winner)
Byteland Poetry Anthology (electronic format)
The Corydon Democrat (local weekly newspaper, articles)
The Indian Creek Anthology (poetry, non-fiction short story)
Ghost Writers (poetry, short story)
Christmas Bizarre (poetry, short story)
Dragon: Our Tales (poetry, short story)
Grounds for Suspicion (poetry, short story)
2000 Tales (short story)
Wry Bred (short story)
Laughter Loaf online (short stories)
Peridot Books online (short stories)
      -- Peridot, a beautiful site of speculative fiction and informative non-fiction, is changing its name and address in September 2006 to ALLEGORY.
Papyrus online (short story reprint)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine (short stories)
Gang-Related online magazine (non-fiction, interview)
The Phone Book for web and WAP (flash fiction)
Way Out West (poetry, short story)
Unbridled Lust (poetry, short stories)
PanGaia (poetry, short story)
Bovine Free Wyoming (flash fiction)
E2K (flash fiction)
There's Something Under The Bed-Time Stories (poetry, short stories)
The Murder Hole (flash fiction)
World Wide Recipes (short story, food/history column)
Oceans of the Mind (short story)
Story House Coffee (flash fiction)
Novel Ingredients (poetry, short story)
Song of the Siren (short story)
Write of Passage (short story)
Off The Rack (flash fiction)
Espresso Fiction (flash fiction)
Creative Singularity (short stories, serialized novel)
T-Zero: The Writer's Ezine (short story)
OnSpec (short story)
Bound Off podcasts (short story)
Flash Me Magazine (flash fiction)
Flash Shots (flash fiction)
Beastly Tales (short stories, poetry)
Marion Zimmer Bradley's SWORD AND SORCERESS XXII (short story)
It's Always Something (short story)
Mouth Full of Bullets (flash fiction)

Awards

First Place, 2001 Green River Writers Pennington Prize
"The Color of Passion" (poem)

Second Place, 2001 Green River Writers Wind Poetry
"US Steel Works at Gary, IN" (poem)

Third Place, 2001 Green River Writers Green River Lean
"Dumpster" (flash fiction)

Honorable Mention, 2001 Green River Writers Four Seasons Haiku Prize
"Spikes of Bronze Grass Lie" (poem sequence)

Honorable Mention, 2001 Green River Writers Deborah Madden Memorial Prize
"Drowse" (poem)

Honorable Mention, 2001 Green River Writers Children's Picture Book Prize
"Sorry Or Not" (short story)

Second Place, 2002 NetAuthor/E2K Flash Fiction Contest
"Prodigal" (flash fiction)

First Place, 2003 Green River Writers Green River Lean
"A Journey of a Thousand Miles" (flash fiction)

First Place, 2004 Green River Writers Green River Tales
"No Quarter" (short story)

Third Place, 2004 Green River Writers President's Prize
"I'll Fly Away" (short story)

1st Honorable Mention, 2004 Green River Writers Green River Lean
"Following Bliss" (flash fiction)

First Place, 2005 Green River Writers President's Prize
"Midnight Clear" (short story)

Second Place, 2005 Green River Writers Green River Grande
"He Tells Me I Cannot Love the Raven" (poem)

Third Place, 2005 Green River Writers Not Your Grandmother's Quilt
"Found In Played-Out Farmland" (poem)

Third Place, 2005 Green River Writers A Strange Happening
"The People From Down Below" (poem)

1st Honorable Mention, 2005 Green River Writers Green River Lean
"Stranger" (flash fiction)

1st Honorable Mention, 2005 Green River Writers Jim O'Dell Memorial
"Getting A Handle on Things" (limerick)

3rd Honorable Mention, 2005 Green River Writers Poems Written After Midnight
"Felony" (poem)

Honorable Mention, 2007 ReadersWrite Here's Looking at You contest
"Dog Show" (short story)