Recognitions & Awards 

BOOK AWARDS

2024 Or Did You Ever See The Other Side? Winner of the International Book Awards in Poetry
2024 Or Did You Ever See The Other Side? Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Awards in Poetry
2024 Or Did You Ever See The Other Side? Finalist for the USA Best Book Awards in Poetry

2020 The Taste of the Earth Finalist for The Khayrallah Prize
2020 The Taste of the Earth Winner Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards in Poetry!
2020 The Taste of the Earth Winner of the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List Honoree in all genres!
2020 The Taste of the Earth Winner of the Silver Nautilus Book Award for Poetry.
2019 The Taste of the Earth  Finalist in the Poetry category of the Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest

2016 Under Brushstrokes Finalist among five Award-Winning Finalists in the “Poetry” category of the 2016 International Book Awards!
2015 Under Brushstrokes: Award-winning Finalist in the “Poetry” Category of the 2015 USA Best Book Award!

2014 Tea in Heliopolis Winner for the USA Best Book Awards
2014 Tea in Heliopolis  Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards
2014 Tea in Heliopolis  Among four finalists for the International Book Awards

2013 Flying Carpets Winner Honorable Mention  Arab American National Book Award in Fiction
2014 Flying Carpets Finalist  Eric Hoffer Book Award in Short Fiction
2014 Flying Carpets Finalist for the 2014 USA Best Book Award in Short Fiction

  • PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS FOR POETRY:

  • 2022 Pushcart Prize nomination from Indelible   for my ekphrastic pantoum “Would it Have Made a Difference Had I Known?”
    2022 Pushcart Prize nomination from Lothlorien Poetry Journal for “Raoucheh”
  • 2022 Pushcart Prize The Apple Valley Review  for“Turning Around in Circles”
  • 2021 Pushcart Prize Knot Magazine for my ekphrastic poem, “Or What Did You Think Would Happen When You Were Gone?”
  • 2021 Puschcart Prize MockingHeart Review nominated “Or Do You Keep Track Of All The Keys You Once Owned?”
  • 2021 Pushcart Prize The MacGuffin nominated my ekphrastic pantoum ” We Want Our Voices to Be Heard”
  • 2020 Pushcart Prize Pushcart Prize Spectrum Publishing nominated “Selling the House”
  • 2018 Pushcart Prize Collateral Damage: Glass Lyre Press nominated “To Amal”
  • 2018 Pushcart Prize MockingHeart Review nominated “Or Weren’t We Supposed To Remove Our Makeup At Night?”
  • 2018 Pushcart Prize Riggwelter nominated “Or How Did You Think She’d Rehearse Her Own Flight?”
  • 2017 Pushcart Prize The Aeolian Harp Series Anthology Vol3 (Glass Lyre Pyre) nominated “The Taste of the Earth”
  • 2017 Pushcart Prize Blue Lyra Review nominated “The Dust of Legends”
  • 2017 Pushcart Prize Fifth Wednesday Journal nominated “The House in Aleppo I Would Never Get to See”
  • 2016 Pushcart Prize Peacock Journal: Beauty First nominated “Deeper Than Tattoo”
  • 2016 Pushcart Prize World Literature Today nominated: “How Much of Yourself Remains Within the Walls of a Home” and “A Bird’s Song, Unraveled.”
  • 2016 Pushcart Prize Pirene’s Fountainnominated “Visiting my Mother in Montreal”
  • BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS FOR POETRY & SMALL FICTION:
  • 2022 Best Microfiction 2023 Nomination from The Ekphrastic Review for my ekphrastic prose poem “Or How Could We Ever Be Able to Resist Such Likeness?” from Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
  • 2018 Peacock Journal nominated “Or Do Memories Go Through Our Children Like Thread Through A Needle?” from Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
  • 2018 The Mantle nominated “Or What Does a Tree Know About Aging” from Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
  • 2016 Change Seven Magazine nominated “Shipwrecked” from Under Brushstrokes
  • 2016 Press 53 nominated “The Apple of Granada” from Under Brushstrokes

Academic Awards from Western Michigan University

  • Hedy Habra PTI 2015-2016 Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University
  • Hedy Habra PTI 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University  
  • Hedy Habra 2013 Alumni Achievements Award Western Michigan University
  • Hedy Habra 2006 All-University Research & Creative Scholar Award WMU
  • Hedy Habra 2006 Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award                                                               

Under Brush Strokes Book

Cover art Woman Bathing by Hedy Habra. Cover design by Paul Sizer

Under Brushstrokes

(Press 53, 2015)

Awards

  • Among five Finalists for the 2016 International Poetry Book Award!
  • Finalist in the “Poetry” category oft the 2015 USA Best Book Award!

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Cover art Heliopolis Palace Hotel Terrace by Hedy Habra.
Cover design by Paul Sizer

Habra’s poetry collection

Tea in Heliopolis

(Press 53, 2013)

Awards

  • Winner for the 2014 USA Best Book Awards
  • Among four Finalists for the 2014 International Poetry Book Award

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Tea in Heliopolis won Honorable Mention in the C&R Press Open Competition Poetry Series and was Finalist in the Patricia Bibby First Book Award and the White Pine Press Award. Tea in Heliopolis was Finalist four times in the Gival Press Poetry Contest and semi-finalist in more than fifteen poetry competitions, including twice for the Crab Orchard Review Open and twice for the Crab Orchard First Book Contest, Many Mountains Moving, White Pine Press, Violet Reed Hass Competition, Slope Press, The Washington Prize, C&R Press De Novo, Zone 3 and twice for the Brittingham and Pollak Prize.

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Cover Design by Hedy Habra & Interlink. Cover photo Hiltrud Schulz.

Habra’s collection of short fiction 

Flying Carpets

(Interlink, 2013)

Awards

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Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University 2015-2016

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Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University 2014

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Alumni Achievements Award Western Michigan University, 2013

Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University (2015-2016)

Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University (2014)

Alumni Achievements Award Western Michigan University (2013)

All-University Research & Creative Scholar Fellowship Award Western Michigan University (2006).

Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award Western Michigan University (2006).

Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award WMU Spanish Department (2006).

Graduate Research Scholar & Creative Writing Award WMU Languages & Linguistics Department (1993).

Poetry Awards

Tiferet Journal Poetry Contest Honorable Mention (2014):
“I’d Like to Sing a Song of Freedom”

Pirene’s Fountain Poetry Awards (2014):
Monostich Poetry Contest Winner “Canvas”
Four Lines Poetry Contest Winner “Resonance”

Nazim Hikmet Fourth Annual International Poetry Competition Winner (2012):
“I Always Knew I was a Sybil at Heart,” “Weaving and Unweaving”
“Writing in Dust”

New Millenium Award Semi-Finalists (2011-2012):
“Shipwrecked,” “Obsessive Compulsion”

Letras Femeninas Premio Victoria Urbano Winner (2007):
“Mascarade,” “Bricolage,” “Simulacra,” “Unborn,” “Evening Walk”

Explicación de Textos Literarios Premio Spanish Press Winner (2005):
“Bajo pinceladas,”  “El sol también tiene su lado oscuro,” “Contrapunto”

Nimrod/Hardman Award, Pablo Neruda Prize Finalists (2003):
“Tea at Chez Paul’s,” “Untold Tale(s) of Unfinished Tapestry,” “Narguileh,”
“I had Never Seen a Dead Man Before,” “Open-Air Cinema in Heliopolis,”
“A Triptych, Unraveled”

Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize Finalist (1999): “Raoucheh”

Linden Lane Magazine’s English Poetry Prize Winner (1994):
“Encounters,” “Vanishing Shadow,” “I Haven’t Written a Poem in a Long Time”

Negative Capability’s Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1994): “A Glimpse of Fall”

Negative Capability’s Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1993): “To Henriette”

Negative Capability’s Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalist (1992): “That Day in Heliopolis”

Robert Whiting Awards Finalists (1990): “Transience,” “Raindrops” “The Communion”

Negative Capability’s Eve of St. Agnes Award Finalists (1989): “Tea at Heliopolis,” “The White Brass Bed,” “Camera Lucida”

Linden Lane Magazine’s English Poetry Prize, Third Place (1989): “Waiting for Marie”

Linden Lane Magazine’s English Poetry Prize Finalist (1987):  “Immured,” “Dive.”

Journal Français d’Amérique  Concours de Poèmes de Noël, Second Place (1986): “Al Milad”

Fiction Awards:

Letras Femeninas Premio Victoria Urbano Winner (2007): “Noor el Kamar”

New Voices Contest Honorable Mention (1993): “Mariam”

New Voices Contest Honorable Mention (1992): “Anemones Fingers”