Allison Hedge Coke (partial listing)
•Honor. IRAM Literary Festival. Ireland. 2011. [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor. Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency. Nebraska City, NE. 2011 [Two Week Writing Residency.] [Appointed.]
•Honor. Lannan Foundation Fellowship Residency. Marfa, TX. 2011. [Two Month Writing Residency.] [Confidential amount.] [Invitational.] [Internal Nomination Process.] [National/International.]
•Honor. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Annual Resident Fellow. Southern Pines, NC. 2008-2011. [Competitive.] [Regional.]
•Honor. NY Bookfest Poetry Honorable Mention. 2011. Off-Season City Pipe. [Poetry.] [National.]
note: Also, Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award for this volume in (2008).
•Honor. Final Judge, PEN USA, PEN Awards, Poetry. 2011. [Invitational.] [National.]
•Honor. Final Judge. Poetry Out Loud. Nebraska State Competition. Lincoln, Nebraska. 2011. [Invitational.] [Statewide.]
•Honor. Honorary Chair. Writers Garret Literary Arts Outreach to Homeless Programming. Dallas Texas. Fall 2010-current. [Regional.]
•Honor. Final Judge, Student Conference Papers. Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Spring 2010. [National.]
•Honor. Final Judge, Student Writing Competitions. Judith Siegel Pearson Award (essay) and Tompkins Awards (essay). Includes scholarships for 2010-2011 academic year. Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. Spring 2010. [University/Outside State.]
•Honor. United Nations Panel Nominator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2010. [Correlations between publishing in Indigenous communities and ratio of human rights violations upon those communities.] [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor. AWP Sandhill Crane Panel designated as permanent podcast representation of AWP Conference. 2010. [National/International.]
•Honor. National Science Foundation H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest Think Tank: Dragonfly Eyes. 2010. [Invitational.] [National.]
•Honor. Carr Residency. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne. 2010. [Regional.]
•Honor. United Nations Panel Nominator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2009. [Correlations between publishing in Indigenous communities and ratio of human rights violations upon those communities.] [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor Final Judge. Poetry Out Loud. Nebraska State Competition. Lincoln, Nebraska. 2009. [Invitational.] [Statewide.]
•Honor. Pushcart Nomination. 2009. [By Pushcart Board of Directors.] [National.]
•Honor. ACTC Residency. Minneapolis/St. Paul. 2009. [Regional.]
•Honor. Pushcart Nomination, for "Sway Value," published in XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics #20. 2008. [By Mark Nowak.] [National.]
•Honor. Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. Association of Sociology in Religion. Boston, MA. August 1st, 2008. [Invitational Presenter.] [National/International.]
•Honor. Great Plains Fellow. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Lincoln, NE. 2008-2011. [Invited Fellow.] [Current] [National/Regional.]
•Honor. Black Earth Institute, Fellow. Black Earth Institute. Madison, WI. 2005-2008. [Invited Fellow.] 2009. [Named Distinguished Emeritus Fellow.] [National.]
•Grant. South Dakota Arts Council Collaboration Grant. 2008-2009. [Poetry & Music.] [Collaboration with Brent Michael Davids, Composer.] [$6,000.] [Current.] [Regional.]
•Honor. Shandong University. Weihai, China. 2008. [Invitational Foreign Expert.] [University/International.]
•Honor. Faculty Mentor for Graduate Student RSC Fellowship UNK. 2008-2009. [Competitive.] [$400.]
•Honor. Faculty Mentor for Digital Poetics Honors Student RSC Fellowship UNK. 2008-2009. [Competitive.] [$450.]
•Honor. Hawthornden Castle Fellowship Residency. Hawthornden Castle. Midlothian, Scotland. May-June 2008. [International.]
•Honor. Final Judge, PEN USA, PEN Awards, Poetry. 2008. [Invitational.] [National.]
•Honor. Final Judge, PEN America, Beyond Margins Awards. 2008. [Invitational.] [National.]
•Honor. Awards Presentation Reading in the Lincoln Center, Bruno Walter Theater, from The Perfect Man was a designated PEN American Center 2008 Year Highlight Audio Recording [National.]
•Honor. Writing Residency. Soul Mountain Retreat. Marilyn Nelson, Director. Old Lyme, CT. May 2008. [Invitational.] [National.]
•Honor. United Nations Panel Facilitator/Speaker Nominator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2008. [Correlations between publishing in Indigenous communities and ratio of human rights violations upon those communities.] [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor. Final Judge. Poetry Out Loud. South Dakota State Competition. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 2008. [Invitational.] [Statewide/Outside State.]
•Honor. Writer of the Year Award. Blood Run. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2007. [Poetry.] [Internal Nomination.] [National.] [Conferred 2008.]
•Honor. Journal Issue of the Year Award. Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry/To Topos International Poetry Journal. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2008 for 2007 edition. [Editing.] [Internal Nomination.] [Conferred 2008.]
•Honor. International Festival of Poetry. Colombia. 2007. [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor. World Festival of Poetry. Argentina. 2007. [Invitational.][International.]
•Honor. United Nations Panel Speaker Nominator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2007. [International.]
•Honor. George Garrett Prize for Community Service in Literature Nomination. Associated Writing Programs. 2007. [Internal Nomination] [International.]
•Honor. Given Key to City. San Diego. 2007. [Outside Local City on behalf of International Conference.]
•Honor. International Festival of Poetry. Venezuela. 2007. [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor. Final Judge, writing competitions. Cream City Review, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. Fall 2006. [Invitational.]
•Honor. United Nations Presenting Speaker. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2006. [Correlations between publishing in Indigenous communities and ratio of human rights violations upon those communities.] [Invitational.]
•Honor/Grant. King*Chavez*Parks Faculty Award. State of Michigan/NMU. Marquette, MI. 2005. [Appointed.] [$3,000.]
•Honor. Writer of the Year Award. Off-Season City Pipe. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2005. [Poetry.] [Internal Nomination.]
•Honor. International Festival of Poetry. Colombia. 2005. [Invitational.] [International.]
•Honor. Final Judge. Student Writing Competition Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. Spring 2005. [Invitational.]
•Honor. National Endowment for the Humanities Appointment Distinguished Visiting Professor. Hartwick College. Oneonta, NY. Fall 2004. [Invitational Appointment.]
•Honor. Book-of-the-Month. Native America Calling, for Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. August 2004. [Nonfiction.]
•Honor. Excellence in Literary Arts Award. Mayor's Awards, Sioux Empire Arts Council. 2003. Nominee in additional categories. [Community Nominations.]
•Honor/Grant. Excellence in Teaching Award Grants. $1,500 (each). Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002-2004. [$1,500.] [$1,500.]
•Honor. Delegate. United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. San Diego, CA. 2007. [Initiating dialogue to involve the Indigenous Americans (full hemisphere with US and Canada specific dialogue) in United Nations Peacekeeping/Peacemaking efforts despite over-representation by mainstream US citizenry.] [Appointed Delegate.] [International.]
•Honor. Touring Artist Grants and Tours for South Dakota Arts Council. SD. Annually 2003-2011. [$1500. per year x 9 years $13,500.]
•Artist Fellowship. South Dakota Arts Council. SD. 2002.
•National Mentor of the Year. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2001. [Internal Nomination.]
•Touring Artist Grants and Tours for South Dakota Arts Council. SD. Annually 2000-2011.
•Pushcart Nomination. 2000. [By Arthur Sze.]
•Reading Rainbow Judge, writing contest, second and third grade judge. South Dakota Public Broadcast System. 2000. [Invitational.]
•Dakota Visions Touring Artist. SD. 1999-2000.
•Individual Artist Project Grant (formerly Fellowship for the Arts). South Dakota State Arts Council. SD. 1999.
•“News Flash: Tagging Death” nominated for Pushcart. 1999. [Published XCP.]
•Dog Road Woman. Winner American Book Award, The Before Columbus Foundation,
American Booksellers Association. 1998. The Paterson Poetry Prize, Finalist. 1998. Returning the Gift Poetry Prize, Finalist. 1997. [Poetry.]
•Resident Fellow, The MacDowell Colony. Petersborough, New Hampshire. Fall 1996.
•Charlie and Thelma Willis Memorial Award Editor’s Choice (Cid Corman). Abiko Quarterly International. Japan. 1995. [Editor Selection.]
•Vermont College, Merit Awards/Scholarships. 1993, 1994, 1995.
•American Pen Women’s Association Scholar Award, Finalist (one of only two poets selected). Washington, DC 1994.
•National Repertory Theatre National Play Award competition, Finalist. Michael Dewell Project Director. Los Angeles, California 1994.
•Institute of American Indian Arts. Departmental Award and Honors. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1993.
•New Mexico Press Women’s Association Writing Award & Scholarship. New Mexico Press Women’s Association c/o The New Mexico Magazine, Emily Drabranski, President. Albuquerque, NM. 1993. [Nonfiction.]
•Zora Neale Hurston Award. MFA Writing Program at the Naropa Institute. Boulder, CO. 1993.
•Naropa Poetry Prize/Fellowship, Institute for American Indian Arts. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1991-1992. [Joint Red Elk Scholarship Naropa MFA program]. Boulder, CO. 1992. [Internal Nominations.]
•Artist Residency. Atlantic Center for the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL. 1992.