Publications & Awards

  • Imagine Create Explore Boxed Set, Edited by Carol La Valley, Susan Lenart Kazmer LLC, 2013

    Silver eLit Illuminating Digital Publishing Excellence Arts and Crafts, 2014

  • Memoir: Skirting Traditions Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012, Written and Edited by members of Arizona Press Women, Wheatmark, 2012

    Honorable Mention National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Memoir, 2013

  • Explore, Create, Resinate: Mixed Media Techniques Using ICE Resin® by Jen Cushman, Carol La Valley Step-out photographer, Susan Lenart Kazmer LCC, 2011

    Bronze Medal Independent Publisher Book Awards, How-To Craft and Hobby, 2012

  • “The Bone Flute Maker” in the eBook: Vampires, Zombies and Ghosts Oh My! No Tree Books, 2010

    1st Place Arizona Press Women (APW) Short Fiction, 2011

  • Fifty-Five Years of Health Care in the Rim Country, A Pocket Full of Stardust Publications, 2009

    Honorable Mention Arizona Press Women (APW) History Book, 2010

  • “Kilimanjaro hike brings brother adventurers closer together”, Rim Country Gazette, print edition, July 24, 2008

    National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, Special Articles – Travel Second Place, 2009

  • Rim Country Gazette

    Second Place Publications regularly edited by entrant – Non-daily newspaper, National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, 2009

  • “Teachers turn lives around” and “Learning to function with autism” Payson Roundup Newspaper DATE by Carol La Valley

    Second Place Special Articles – Education, Arizona Press Women Communications Contest, 2008

  • 2007 Arizona Press Women Communications Contest / 2007 Outstanding Writing Award

    Arizona Newspaper Association

  • “I’d rather be a Lady Longhorn than an Appleknocker” published in The Rim Review DATE by Carol La Valley

    2007 Arizona Better Newspapers Association, Newspaper Column, Second Place

  • “Baby arrives before midwife, EMTs” Payson Roundup Newspaper DATE, by Carol La Valley

    2006 Arizona Better Newspapers Association, Lifestyle Feature, Second Place

Signing Skirting Traditions at the Winslow Museum, Winslow, Arizona