AWARDS
Awards, Achievements, and Honorable Mentions – Author Bonnie Hobbs
She lifts her gaze and blinks away the tears clouding her vision. There is the moon’s face, filling the sky, watching her. She mourns ever thinking it smug, for now it is her only comfort.
She wills herself to fly away; to embrace the moon now blossoming above her.
A pearl? No. A pearl is too cold. The moon is a lotus, waiting tightly bound through time; then opening—opening.
- Finalist, PNWA conference 2023

- Published in the “Saddlebag Dispatches” Summer Edition – READ STORY HERE
- Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas – Western Category 2007
- 1st place, Low Country Romance Writers, 2001
- 1st place, Heart of the West contest 2013
BEYOND THE NIGHT
- Finalist, Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association 2014
AGAINST THE MOON
- Finalist, Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association 2010
LOTUS MOON
- Finalist, Golden Rose, Rose City Writers’ Association 2015
- Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas 2008
- Honorable mention, San Gabriel Writers’ League 2008
WOMEN WRITING THE WEST LAURA CONTEST
- 1st place NUGGET 2014
- 2nd place THE LONG ROAD HOME 2011
- 2nd place THE LOTUS 2017