Nancy Penrose, Writer and Editor, Awards and Fellowships
Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best of the Net Nominations, 2021, Orange Blossom Review
Semifinalist, The Non/Fiction Collection Prize, 2019, The Journal
Pushcart Prize Anthology Nomination, 2017, Blue Lyra Review
Semifinalist, Zone 3 Press 2015 Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Judged by Amy Fusselman
Honorable Mention, 2013 Writers@Work Fellowship Competition - Nonfiction. Judged by Christopher Merrill
Second Place Winner, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, Tilia Klebenov Jacobs Religious Essay Prize (2012)
Third Place and Honorable Mention Winner, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize (2012)
Selected as Alternate by Shawn Wong, Curator 2012 Jack Straw Writers Program (December 2011)
Second Place Winner, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize (2011)
Honorable Mention, January 2011 New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Competition (2011)
Honorable Mention, January 2009 New Millennium Writings Nonfiction Competition (2009)
Runner Up Transitions Abroad Narrative Travel Writing Contest (2009)
Grand Prize Winner in the Spring 2008 Memoir (and) Contest (2008)
Grand Prize Silver and Women's Travel Gold winner in the Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing (2007)
Whiteley Center Scholar, Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center, Friday Harbor, Washington (March 2007)
Organizational Writing Award from the New Orleans Press Club (1986)