Recognitions & Awards
Book Awards
- 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 2019 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 Among four finalists for the International Book Award
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 2023 from Indelible for my ekphrastic pantoum “Would it Have Made a Difference Had I Known?”2022 Pushcart Prize 2023 Nomination from Lothlorien Poetry Journal for “Raoucheh”
- 2022 The Apple Valley Review nominated “Turning Around in Circles” for a Pushcart Prize 2023
- 2021 Knot Magazine nominated my ekphrastic poem, “Or What Did You Think Would Happen When You Were Gone?” for a Pushcart Prize 2022
- 2021 The MacGuffin nominated my ekphrastic pantoum ” We Want Our Voices to Be Heard” for a Pushcart Prize 2022
- 2020 Spectrum Publishing nominated “Selling the House”
- 2018 Collateral Damage: Glass Lyre Press nominated “To Amal”
- 2018 MockingHeart Review nominated “Or Weren’t We Supposed To Remove Our Makeup At Night?”
- 2018 Riggwelter nominated “Or How Did You Think She’d Rehearse Her Own Flight?”
- 2017 The Aeolian Harp Series Anthology Vol3 (Glass Lyre Pyre) nominated “The Taste of the Earth”
- 2017 Blue Lyra Review nominated “The Dust of Legends”
- 2017 Fifth Wednesday Journal nominated “The House in Aleppo I Would Never Get to See”
- 2016 Peacock Journal: Beauty First nominated “Deeper Than Tattoo”
- 2016 World Literature Today nominated: “How Much of Yourself Remains Within the Walls of a Home” and “A Bird’s Song, Unraveled.”
- 2016 Pirene’s Fountainnominated “Visiting my Mother in Montreal”
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- 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?”
- 2018 Peacock Journal nominated “Or Do Memories Go Through Our Children Like Thread Through A Needle?”
- 2018 The Mantle nominated “Or What Does a Tree Know About Aging.”
- 2016 Change Seven Magazinenominated “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
Cover art The Sons of Horus by Hedy Habra. Cover design by Paul Sizer
New collection of poetry
The Taste of the Earth by Hedy Habra
(Press 53, 2019)
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Winner Honorable Mention for the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Awards in Poetry!
Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List Honoree in all genres!
Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Silver Book Award in Poetry!
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!
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
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.
Cover Design by Hedy Habra & Interlink. Cover photo Hiltrud Schulz.
Habra’s collection of short fiction
Flying Carpets
(Interlink, 2013)
Awards
- Winner Honorable Mention 2013 Arab American National Book Award in Fiction
- Finalist 2014 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Short Fiction
- Finalist for the 2014 USA Best Book Award in Short Fiction
Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University 2015-2016
Excellence in Teaching Award Western Michigan University 2014
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”