Rebecca Kightlinger, Author of The Bury Down Chronicles Series
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Awards and Recognition


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2023: First Place: Chanticleer International Book Awards: the Chaucer Award for Dark Age, Medieval, and Renaissance Fiction: The            Lady of the Cliffs.          
2022: First Place: Chanticleer International Book Award for Supernatural Paranormal Fiction: The Lady of the 
          Cliffs

2022: Finalist: Chanticleer International Book Awards: the Chaucer Award for Early Historical Fiction: Megge of
          Bury Down. 

2021: First Place: Chanticleer International Book Awards for Supernatural Paranormal Fiction: Megge of Bury Down
2021: Distinguished Favorite: Independent Press NYC Big Book Award for Historical Fiction: The Lady of the                         
         Cliffs

2021: Distinguished Favorite: Independent Press NYC Big Book Award for Book Cover Design: The Lady of the                   
          Cliffs

2021: Gold: The Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Audiobook, Fiction: Megge of
         Bury Down

2021: Silver: Independent Book Publishers Association's Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book: Megge of Bury Down
2021: Gold: Mom's Choice Award for excellence in family-friendly media: Megge of Bury Down 
2020: 
Distinguished Favorite: Independent Press NYC Big Book Award for Historical Fiction: Megge of Bury Down
2020: 
Distinguished Favorite: Independent Press NYC Big Book Award for 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  


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                ~ Murga, Seer of Bury Down

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