2024:

December: In The Norman Galaxy of Writers’ Contest, I won 1st place in Nonfiction Article (Hallucinations about George Washington), 2nd place for Short Story (The Cat Who Almost Ate the Canary), 2nd place for Rhymed Poetry (Disagreeing to Agree); 3rd place for Novel (Actually Ever After), and 3rd place for Juvenile Fiction (Am I Weird?). I also won two HMs in the Hot Plate Contest (Peppers & Salt and The Way the Ball Bounces).

November: I gave my speech “Murder Follows Me Around” to the writers at CROW. In the OKC Writers’ Contest, I won 2nd place for Feature Article ( Who is Robert & Why is He Making Up All These Rules?); 2nd place for Short Story (The Day We Stopped Dancing); 3rd place for Flash Fiction (The Flying Fudgsicle), 3rd place for Nostalgia (The Greatest Neighborhood), and an HM in Poetry (Disagreeing to Agree).

August: At today's annual forensic seminar of the Oklahoma Bar Association Criminal Defense Section, I was honored and humbled to receive the 2024 Cardoza Golden Quill Award for my law-related articles in the Q&A, a newsletter for that section. Also, in the White County Creative Contest, I won the following awards: Mystery Chocolate Caper, 3rd place; Whodunnit Award, 3rd place; When I was 17, 1st HM; Show Me Mystery, 1st HM; The Creative Spirit, 2nd HM; Crazy Seasoned Romance, 2nd HM; and Much Ado About, 3 HM. I have three poems in the Poetry Society of Oklahoma anthology Answering the Call.

Spring: My short story “You Think You Know Someone” appeared in the anthology The Vault of Terror, Tales to Tale.

My feature “Correct Evidence, Wrong Conclusion” is published in the spring issue of Q&A, the newsletter of the Criminal Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

The Oklahoma Bar Journal, March 2024 issue: publication of my poem “Learning a New Language.”

Pebbles magazine published two of my haikus.

August: Mirror Street Theatre Reunion Show at Sooner Theatre, Norman, OK: I co-wrote and edited scripts for the show, plus was the Mime Director and performed as a mime for the August production.

Featured in Bold Journey magazine on July 21, 2023: Meet Lisbeth McCarty - Bold Journey Magazine.

2023 Awards and Publications:

December: Norman Galaxy of Writing Contest Awards: Nostalgia, 1st: The Packing Tape Fiasco; Non-Fiction Article: Who is Roberts and Why is He Making Up All These Rules?; Flash Fiction, 2nd: The Key to Memory; Rhymed Poetry, 3rd: To Buy or Not to Buy; Novel, 3rd, The Sword of Justice; Children’s Fiction, 3rd, Drag the Dragon; Adult Short Story, HM, Half-Baked.

November: Oklahoma City Writers Contest Awards: Humor, 1st, The Cat who Almost Ate a Canary; Short Story, 1st, DOA at the DMV; Feature Article, 1st, I was on Jeopardy! Eight Times; Juvenile, 3rd, Once Upon Aurora; and Nostalgia, 3rd, Unidentified Flying Ozzie.

My award-winning non-fiction story “Card Shark” was published on Becky Van Vleet’s blog in September.

September White County Creative Contest wins were: 1st, Glassworks, On Cloud Nine . . . and Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Etc.; 3rd place, Crackpot Critters, The Cat Who Almost Ate a Canary; 3rd, I Love the 70s, Glow; 3rd, Western Justice, The Sword of Justice; 3rd, HM, Whodunnit, You Think You Know Someone; 1st HM, Make Me Giggle, Explosion in the Cafeteria; 3rd HM, Two Images are Better Than One, Drag the Dragon.

Fall 2023: My feature “Legal History: Know the Elements of the Crime” is published in the fall issue of Q&A, the newsletter of the Criminal Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

August: I was a featured blogger in the OKC Writers’ Newsletter. I also had an ad appear in Wordwrights’ Newsletter about the Mirror Street Theatre Reunion Show at Sooner Theatre on August 19, 2023. I was a co-writer, mime, and Director of Mimes for that production. My quick movie review of Judy Blume Forever was published in the 2023 issue of the Norman Galaxy of Writers.

July 21st: I was featured in the magazine BOLD journey about being a writer. https://boldjourney.com/meet-lisbeth-mccarty

June: Arkansas Writer’s Contest Wins were: 1st, Henry & Betty Heidelberg Memorial Prose Contest, Half-Baked; 1st, Fiction Who-Dunnit Contest Award, The Key to Memory; 1st, Carl J. Iannocone Memorial Contest Award, My Good Fortune; 2nd, Fantasy Short Story, The Wild Woods; 3rd, The Great Escape Contest Award, The Secret; 3rd, White County Creative Contest, Unidentified Flying Ozzie; 3rd, Dorothy Truex Memorial Prose Contest Award, Internet Dating Magic; 3rd, Uncle Rube’s Tales Contest Award, Survival; 1st HM, The Erdel Family Memorial Award, Never Miss an Opportunity; 1st HM, Creative Non-Fiction Award, The Packing Tape Fiasco; 1st HM, Mistletoe Contest Award, Motion of Ocean; 2nd HM, Pick a Wish Award, Conditional; and 3rd HM, Peggy Vining Memorial Essay Contest Award, The Wonderful World of Words.

May: OWFI wins were 1st, Essay, Curl Up and Die; 2nd, Technical/How-To, How to Spot a Liar; 3rd, Poetry, Conflicted; 1st Honorable Mention, Short Story, Juvenile, The Pig Promise.

May 2023: My quick movie review of The Boston Strangler was published in the The WriteLine, the newsletter of The Norman Galaxy of Writers.

Summer 2023: My feature “Legal History: The Son of Sam” is published in the summer issue of Q&A, the newsletter of the Criminal Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

April 4th: I was featured in the online magazine “Shoutout DFW” as an attorney, writer, and artist. https://shoutoutdfw.com/meet-lisbeth-mccarty-attorney-writer-and-artist

March: I was featured, along with four other Oklahoma authors, in an article titled “Cozy Up With a Good Book” in Caregiver magazine. My feature “Legal History: The Insanity Defense” is published in the March issue of Q&A, the newsletter of the Criminal Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association. I was also featured as a true-crime writer on the damyantiwrites website: https://www.damyantiwrites.com/true-crime/

February: Featured poet in the Poets Roundtable of Arkansas newsletter News ‘N’ Notes.

Honorable Mention in the Pen Us An Awesome Tale contest hosted by the Pioneer Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.

Quick movie review of The Pale Blue Eye was published in The WriteLine, the newsletter of The Norman Galaxy of Writers.

2022 Awards and Publications:

December: Arizona State 2022 Annual Poetry Contest: Rhyming Poetry for Children, 2nd Honorable Mention, Pink, Please; Sci-Fi/Fantasy Award, 3rd Honorable Mention, With My Own Eyes.

La Viness Short Story Writing Contest, 1st, From Breakdown to Breakthrough.

Norman Galaxy of Writing Contest: 1st, Adult Short Story, My Side of the Story; 1st, Children’s Fiction, The Pig Promise, 2nd, Nostalgic Essay, Unidentified Flying Ozzie; and 3rd Nonficton Feature Article, I was on Jeopardy! Eight Times.

November: Oklahoma City Writing Contest: Humor, 3rd, Curl Up and Dye (Wigging Out); Poetry, 3rd place, The Life of Rain; 2nd, Inspiration, Breakdown to Breakthrough; and Short Story, HM, Take My Word For It.

My book Mental States of Murderesses became available at all OKC Metropolitan libraries.

My books Coffee Date and Mustang Island (written under the name Lindley O’Vannigan East) are part of the online Oklahoma Romance Writers Group Virtual Book Fair. https://www.oklahomaromancewritersguild.com/virtual-book-fair

October: I was featured in Voyage Dallas magazine: http://voyagedallas.com/interview/rising-stars-meet-lisbeth-mccarty-of-norman-ok/?fbclid=IwAR1rafLCz1nqOop6BuaBZVlLEhH27zf9Z0rlcXSY0T10avw8f4fC8K5g4U0

I was a guess blogger here: https://quillhawkpublishing.com/blogs/news/the-inclusiveness-of-writing?fbclid=IwAR2Mz1UJ_Yq66LYb9Jf3Cgd_P5-ukZ9tLWJkJUMouJr1JTjUPZxxv7gXz6o

I was the featured Member of the Month in the Tornado Alley newsletter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bUNPAXMUg2iBr5uaZm5DqCL1_n4uTuU7/view

My poem “Coulrophobia” won an HM in the Richard Lederer Halloween Contest and was published in The Mensa Bulletin.

My article “Beware the In-Court Identification” was published in the Q&A, the newsletter of the Criminal Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

September: White County Creative Writers wins: Rod Miller Dialogue Award, 2nd Honorable Mention for Ongoing Investigation; The Three Little Pigs True Story, 2nd Honorable Mention, My Side of the Story; Fur in Flight, 2nd Place, The Aftermath; and Fledgling Dragon Contest, 3rd Place, Never Miss an Opportunity.

Summer 2022: My poem “Weather-Related Joy” was included in Issue 15 of the Writers Colony eMerge magazine.

June: OWFI wins: 2nd place in Technical Article for Beware the DNA; 1st place in published book of poetry for Aha! and Ha-Ha. Wins in the Arkansas Writers’ Contest: Embracing Humor, 3rd place, Changing Places; 3rd place, Living Mystery, Mystery of the Secret Admirer; 2nd Honorable Mention, Prose, Change a Tire, Change Me; 3rd Honorable Mention, Prose, Sassy is Not Classy. Five haikus published in the May/June issue of Pebbles magazine. Haiki published online and printed in the summer issue of Whiskyblot.com (see https://www.whiskyblot.com/journal/a-haiku-by-lisbeth-l-mccarty)

May: I was pleased to be the Spotlight Member for Oklahoma City Writers.

April: Beware the DNA published in Q&A, the Criminal Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

March: Any Other Way won a 2nd HM in the Dr. Lily Peter Memorial Award competition.

February: Scary Scarab won a first-place award in the Arkansas Writers' "Pen Us a Tale" contest. The poem Weather-Related Joy will be published in the summer issue of eMerge! The Young Adult Romance Coffee Date was published, as was the book of poetry Aha! and Ha-Ha.

January: Had a story in the anthology The Vault of Terror, Vol. 4, Tales to Tell: https://www.amazon.com/Vault-Terror-Tales-Tell/dp/B087L8RQT3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12JPC6TKO9JDC&keywords=the+vault+of+terror+tales+to+tell&qid=1666477896&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjcxIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=the+vault+of+terror+tales+to+tell%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-1

2021 Awards and Publications:

My article "The Barnum Forer Effect" was published in the February issue of psychology newsletter Cognito.

In the 2021 Norman Galaxy of Writers Contest, I won the following: 1st place, Short Story, Take My Word for It, Obvi; 2nd place, Novel, A Piece of the Puzzle; 3rd place, Children's Fiction, Close Call; 3rd place, Nostalgic Essay, Children of a Lesser Brand; and 3rd place, Nonfiction Feature Article, To Beep or Not to Beep.

My article on writing was published in the February issue of Writers Monthly. I was also on the cover of the magazine.

January: Story What Kind of Person Am I? was published in the OWFI publication The Report.

March: 5 haikus published in Pebbles magazine; Poem I Thought I'd Feel Older published in Writers Monthly.

April: Article What Do You Think of Life Coaches? published in Incognito; Book I Cooked; Therefore, They Ran featured in the column Okie Writers in The Country Connection News.

June: My poem "Heads Bowed, Eyes Down" appeared in Writers Monthly.

August: My poem "Ever So Gently" appears in the anthology Winning Writers' Waltz.
Arkansas Writers Contest: 1st place, Gimme the Creeps, Bringing Up Baby Tap; 1st place, Animal Perspective Award, Cat Goals; 3rd place, Heidelberg Memorial Award, The Threat; 1st HM, Who-Dunnit, You Are Beautiful; 2nd HM, Memoir, Every; 3rd HM, Peggy Vining Memorial Essay, So Be It.

September: Placements in White County Creative Writers Contest: 6) Mystic Pawn Contest, Honorable Mention, The Face of Misfortune; 8) Happiness Is Contest, 2nd place, No Brew For You; 10) Whodunnit? 2nd place, One Good Turn Deserves a Murder; 11) Granny Prewitt Award, 2nd Honorable Mention, I Did It Her Way; 13) Would You Believe?, 2nd Honorable Mention, Uno, Dos, Tre Leches; 15) Humorous Essay: You Really Had to Be There, 1st Honorable Mention, Who Wants In?; and 18) Del Garrett’s Gimme The Creeps, 2nd Honorable Mention, A Crash of Skeletons.

OWFI Annual Contest: Unpublished Nonfiction Book, 2nd place, Marianne, Stop It!; Short, short, young adult story, 3rd place, The Magic of Music.

December: OKC Writers Annual Contest: 2nd place, Feature Article, Shallow Water Drowning; and Honorable Mention in Flash Fiction, Azaleas of Hope; Norman Galaxy of Writers: 1st place, Short Story, Take My Word for It, Obvi; 2nd place, Novel, A Piece of the Puzzle; 3rd place, Children's Fiction, Close Call; 3rd place, Nonfiction Feature Article, To Beep or Not To Beep; 3rd place, Nostalgic Essay, Children of a Lesser Brand; Limerick published in The Mensa Bulletin as an Honorable Mention winner.

2020 Awards and Publications:

Norman Galaxy of Writers: 1st place, Unrhymed Poetry, Solstice; 1st place, Nostalgia, Card Shark; 2nd place, Children's Short Story, The Magic of Music; 2nd place, Novel, Never Miss an Opportunity; 2nd place, Flash Fiction, Go Ahead; 2nd place, Feature Article, Shallow Water Blackout.

OKC Writers Contest: 3rd place, Essay, No Brew for You; Honorable Mention, Nostalgia, The Magic of Music;
Arkansas Writing Contest: 1st place, Pioneer Library Poetry Contest, Ever So Gently; 3rd place, Whodunnit, That's All I'm Saying; 2nd Honorable Mention, Prose Contest, Lumbering Love; 2nd Honorable Mention, Essay Contest, The Magic of Music; 3rd Honorable Mention, Gimme the Creeps Contest, Scary Scarab; 3rd Honorable Mention, A Touch of Magic Contest, Conjuring Up Trouble.

Oklahoma Writers' Federation, Inc. (OWFI): 1st place, Feature Article: What's The Appeal?; 2nd place, Inspirational Article: Sweet World Beyond; 3rd place, Blog: Oxford Commas for Sale; 1st HM, Prose Humor: Love, Judge Zimmerman;
Won an HM in Richard Lederer's Pun Contest, with my entry published in the April/May 2020 Mensa Bulletin

October: 3 haikus on the subject of sight published in Pebbles magazine. November: Started a free, monthly newsletter available at: https://lisbeth.substack.com. December: 4 haikus published in Pebbles magazine.

2019 Contest Wins and Publicatons:

Red Wolf Journal: Poem, Goodbye

Visual Verse: Poem, Courting Nothingness

Story, A Ghost Has No Flesh and Bones, The Vault of Terror -- Tales to Tell, Del Garrett Anthology

Script, the Journal of Creative Writers: Poem, Union Between a Man and a Woman

Green Silk Journal: Poem, Beautiful Cold

Culture Cult Anthology, Nocturne: Poem, Dragged Into Nightmares

Guardian Angel Kids: My Brother is My Hero

Taco Bell Journal: Poem, Aromas

Constellations: Poem, Thoughts to Banish

OKC Writers Contest: 3rd place, flash fiction, Card Shark; 3rd place, short story, Off The Menu; 3rd place, nostalgia, Greasy Spoon Boon; 2nd place, humor, Love, Judge Zimmerman; 2nd place, inspirational, Dreams of Sandy; and 1st place, juvenile, Wesley Whistled While Working.

Chair of the Norman Galaxy of Writers Annual Writing Contest

The Report: That's a Riddle by Lisbeth L. McCarty (my puzzle contribution); continuing puzzle contributions to The WriteLine, The Choreography of Chlorophyll in The Wild Word, Flash Fiction Story in The Report.

OWFI: 1st place in poetry for Heads Bowed, Eyes Down; 2nd place in Inspirational for Dreams of Sandy; 3rd place in adult short story for Peppers and Salt; and 1st Honorable Mention in Nonfiction Feature Article for When Genius Goes Wrong.

Arkansas Writer's Contest:
3rd HM, Gimme the Creeps Short Story, A Ghost Has No Flesh and Bones
2nd HM, Who-Dunnit Short Story, Off the Menu
1st Place, Prose Award, I Am Liza
July, 2019, The WriteLine, published "Epithet for a Would-Be Singer."
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2018:

Norman Galaxy of Writers: Bonnie Speers Crème de la Crème winner and 1st place for Adult Short Story Peppers and Salt; 2nd place in Nostalgic Essay for Greasy Spoon Boon; 3rd place in Nonfiction Article for What's the Appeal?; 1st place in Rhymed Poetry for I Refuse; and 2nd place in juvenile fiction for I'll Have That!

OKC Writers Contest: 3rd place in Children's Literature for Eli Eats Eighty Eggs Every Evening; Honorable Mention in Poetry for The Choreography of Chlorophyll.

OWFI Contest: Short-Short Story Adult Fiction, Honorable Mention, The Facially-Gifted Queen of Denial; Play: 3rd place, The Case of the Case Grocery Store; Technical Article: 2nd place, How to Keep Your Teeth; Juvenile Short Story, Fiction: 1st place, Wesley Whistled While Working.

Acceptance into the prestigious World Literature Today intergenerational writing workshop, led by Cuban American writer Archy Obejas. Only four adult students were accepted into the program. (Unfortunately, I was unable to attend).
Oklahoma State Fair Online Photo Competition: Agriculture Category, 1st Place, "Photo of a steer" (Photo was exhibited in the Creative Arts Center at the fair).

PHOTOS: Three photos were published in mphoto.

May: American Bar Association Caption Contest, Lisbeth McCarty’s caption was one of 3 chosen from 115 entries for best cartoon caption. The caption eventually won and was published in The ABA Journal. http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/cartoon_poll_which_caption_is_head_and_shoulders_above_the_rest

June: Irregular conjugation, published in The Mensa Bulletin (06/19);

July FLASH FICTION CONTEST: Three-word flash fiction story, published in The Report (OWFI publication). (07/18).
Online Prompt Contest: August: The Washington Post Style Invitational Weekly, Week 1285, First-Time Offender: https://www.washingtonpost.com/conversations/style-conversational-week-1289-delaware-and-other-points-west/2018/07/19/db25fee0-8b6d-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

September: SHORT STORY: "The Facially-Gifted Queen of Denial," published in The Mensa Bulletin.
2015:December: My photos were the front and back cover of Parnassus, and I had an article featured inside.
2008:"December Justice" was published in the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System in Norman. 2888 The Oklahoma Bar Journal Vol. 79 — No. 33 — 12/13/2008

For 2018, I was pleased to win several writing awards, but the one dearest to my heart was winning the Bonnie Speer Crème de la Crème at the annual contest of the Norman Galaxy of Writers. Because my personal belief is that the winner of that award should sit out for a year, I volunteered to be the Contest Chair for next year. I've been the Contest Chair before, and one of the great advantages is that I get to read all the entries. Wow - we have some great writers in our club!

OWFI:
Category: Technical or How-To Article, 2nd place, How to Keep Your Teeth
Category: Short, Short Story, 3rd Honorable Mention, The Facially Gifted Queen of Denial. This story was also later published in The Mensa Bulletin, which is the national publication of Mensa, the high IQ organization).
Category: Juvenile Short Story, 1st Place, Wesley Whistled While Working
Category: Play, Film, or TV Script, 3rd place, The Case of the Case Grocery Store

The Norman Galaxy of Writers:
Category: Short Story, 1st place, Peppers and Salt. This was also the Crème de la Crème winner.
Category: Rhymed Poetry, 1st place, I Refuse
Category: Unrhymed Poetry, 2nd place, The Choreography of Chlorophyll
Category: Juvenile Short Story, 2nd place, I'll Have That
Category: Nostalgia, 2nd Place, Greasy Spoon Boon
Category: Nonfiction Article, 3rd place, What's the Appeal?

OKC Writers:
Category: Unrhymed Poetry: The Choreography of Chlorophyll
Category: Juvenile Fiction, 3rd place, Eli Eats Eight Eggs Every Evening

Publications:

KDP, Nonfiction Book, Pirate's Treasure: A Sunken Chest

The September Mensa Bulletin (the national publication of the high IQ society, Mensa): The Facially Gifted Queen of Denial.

The June Mensa Bulletin, Best Conjugations

The February Mensa Bulletin, poem I Thought I'd Feel Older

The WriteLine: Monthly column, That's Puzzling

November mphoto: Vacation Tales (including publication of three of my photos)

March mphoto, three photos of signs published

Summer The Report (publication of OWFI, org), Terse Declaration of Doubt: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57377bf33c44d8a18050744e/t/5b43732f562fa71f00f6dc4e/1531147077506/Summer+2018.pdf

Newsletter editor for Central Oklahoma Mensa for January, 2018, and March, 2018, through August, 2018

Speaker Engagements:
February, Speech to Norman Newcomers' Club regarding The Norman Galaxy of Writers;

February, The Norman Galaxy of Writers, speech about my book Mental States of Murderesses

Event planner for Central Oklahoma Mensa for January, 2018, through August, 2018. Events were:

January: Tour of Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Lab

February: Norman Mardi Gras Parade watch from my office, Dog Sports Activity Speaker

March: Music Night

April: Dine and Draw, Dinner at 3Sixty, Attendance at a play, Attendance at Rumble (movie at the Sam Nobel Museum of Natural History), Visit to the Innovation Hub at OU, trip to see the play On The Town

May: A day at the Oklahoma 1889 Territorial Schoolhouse, Survivor to Success Speaker

June: Paint Party, On The Way to the World Championship of Public Speaking Speaker

July: Trip to the Understanding Cheese Lecture, Rosie the Riveter Crashed Granddad's Plane Speaker

August: College Sports Official Speaker

Random Finds From Days Past:

2009: Holiday Gifts, published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal: https://www.okbar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OBJ2009Dec12-sm.pdf

1983: Copyright: Commercial Use of Sound Recordings Amendment: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/olr/vol36/iss2/

My birthday poem is published here: http://www.great-happy-birthday-ideas.com/my-favorite-day.html