Traci Lazenby Elliott

Past publications and awards:

• A chapter, "Myth and the Mundane in More Shapes than One," in More Lights than One: On the Fiction of Fred Chappell, edited by Patrick Bizzaro (LSU Press, 2004)
      
  
• Two prayer poems in Lifting Women's Voices: Prayers to Change the World, edited by Margaret Rose, Jeanne Person, Abagail Nelson, and Jenny Te Paa (Church Publishing, 2009)
     
  
• Winner of the Linda Flowers Literary Award, from the North Carolina Humanities Council, 2010, for short story, "Legacy."  (Scheduled to appear in North Carolina Conversations, Winter/Spring 2011 edition.)
      
  
• First Place in the Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Contest, 2011, for short story, "Daddy Tells His Tale."
 

• Praying All the Time, a Lenten program for children, published by Leader Resources

Current Projects:

• Answer Cakes and Other Stories about Mama
     
  
• The Place Where I Come From