Jeff Fearnside

1st Place, Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award in Prose (judged by Phillip McMath), 2024; 1st Place, Eyelands International Book Award, Published Memoir (judged by Patricia Marchesi), 2023; 1st Place, Independent Author Network (IAN) Book of the Year Awards, Travel/Nature, 2023; 1st Place, Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award, Adult Nonfiction Essays, 2023; 1st Place, Eric Hoffer Book Award, Nonfiction—Culture, 2023; 1st Place, Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Short Story Collection, 2022; 1st Place, Eyelands International Book Award, in the category of published short stories, 2020 (judged by Patricia Marchesi, Andriana Minou, and Gregory Papadoyiannis); 1st Place, Orison Chapbook Prize, 2020 (judged by Luke Hankins); Oregon Arts Commission 2015 Individual Artist Fellowship; Full Scholarship, The Sun 2013 Writing Retreat, Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA (2013); Spring 2013 Andrews Forest Writers Residency, Oregon State University Andrews Experimental Forest; Peace Corps Writers 2012 Poetry Award; 1st Place, Standing Rock Cultural Arts 2010 Open Poetry Chapbook Competition; 1st Place, 2009 Mary Mackey Short Story Prize (sponsored/judged by Mary Mackey), National League of American Pen Women; Dorothy Norton Clay Fellowship, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Mount St. Francis, IN (2007); Bernheim Writer-in-Residence, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont, KY (2006); Grand Prize, Santa Fe Writers Project 2005 Literary Awards Program (judged by Ayun Halliday); 1st Place, Many Mountains Moving 2005 Flash Fiction Contest (judged by Thaddeus Rutkowski)