Rebecca Kightlinger, Novelist
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Awards and Recognition


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2022: Chanticleer International Book Awards: Longlisted for the Chaucer Award for Early Historical Fiction: Megge of Bury Down.   
          Winner TBA at 2023 CIBA Conference 

2021: Chanticleer International Book Awards: First Place in the category of Paranormal/Supernatural   
          Fiction: Megge of Bury Down
2021: Independent Press NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Historical Fiction: The Lady of the Cliffs
           Independent Press NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Book Cover Design: The Lady of the Cliffs
2021: Gold: Independent Book Publishers Benjamin Franklin Award for Audiobook, Fiction: Megge of Bury Down
          Silver: Independent Book Publishers Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book: Megge of Bury Down
          Gold: Mom's Choice Award for excellence in family-friendly media: Megge of Bury Down 
 2020: Independent Press NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Historical Fiction: Megge of Bury Down

           Independent Press NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Book Cover Design: Megge of Bury Down
2018: Third Place, 2018 Petrichor Audio Magazine Petrichor Reprint Award: "Bay Window"
2017: Second place, Pennwriters' In Other Words  Contest, May 20, 2017: "302"
2015: First place, Writers' Billboard Flash Fiction Contest, August, 2015: "Mama's Girl"
          First place, Writers' Billboard First Chapter Contest April, 2015 Prologue, Megge of Bury Down
2014: First place, Writers' Billboard Flash Fiction Contest, July 2014: "302"

2000: Jesse H. Neal Award  
         "The Jesse H. Neal Awards are the most prestigious editorial honors in the field of specialized journalism."             
           http://www.siia.net/neals


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                ~ Murga, Seer of Bury Down

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