"Exit Stage Right" by Maria Illich is featured in Ekstasis Magazine (June 2023)
https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/exit-stage-right
"Exit Stage Right" by Maria Illich is featured in Ekstasis Magazine (June 2023)
https://www.ekstasismagazine.com/poetry/2023/exit-stage-right
Maria Illich's short story "Night Vision" is featured in the Woodlands Anthology published by Moon Shadow Sanctuary Press. Also included in the anthology is her husband Greg's poem "In a Fading Time."
https://www.amazon.com/woodlands-nature-magic-mystery-myth-d-ellis-phelps/dp/B0BPGKY84R
Press Women of Texas
PWT 2021 Communications Contest
2nd Place in Short Story, Fiction, “Dark Phoenix”
Featured In the anthology Purifying Wind
https://www.amazon.com/purifying-wind-editor-ellis-phelps/dp/0578671107
National Federation of Press Women
NFPW 2020 Communications Contest
1st Place in Children's Books, Fiction: The Legend of the Ladybug by Maria Illich
https://www.boscopublishing.com/publications-products/legend-of-the-ladybug
Editor's Choice Award
"Dark Phoenix" by Maria Illich
Featured in Purifying Wind, an anthology celebrating the vulture
"This work is tender and beautiful. I sobbed in the reading of it." - Editor D. Ellis Phelps
https://www.amazon.com/purifying-wind-editor-ellis-phelps/dp/0578671107
Press Women of Texas
PWT 2020 Communications Contest Awards:
1st Place in Children’s Books, Fiction:
The Legend of the Ladybug by Maria Illich
“Sweet story and legend. Encourages (children) to learn new words and concepts.” — Contest Judge
https://www.boscopublishing.com/publications-products/legend-of-the-ladybug
2nd Place in Single Poem:
"Cibolo Creek Addresses Humanity" by Maria Illich
Featured in the anthology Through Layered Limestone: A Texas Hill Country Anthology of Place
"Powerful, imaginative, and concrete! Powerful imagery. Very Nice!" Contest Judge
https://www.amazon.com/Through-Layered-Limestone-Country-anthology/dp/1082457078
The Legend of the Ladybug is named as a finalist for Best Children's Picture Book in 2020 by the Texas Institue of Letters.
Maria Illich is selected as a juried poet for the 2018 Houston Poetry Fest. She has been selected multiple times in the past (2014, 2012, 2011, 1990).
Maria Illich’s The Morcant Twins & the Curse of the Griseum is nominated for a 2014 Silver Falchion Award.
Maria Illich’s The Morcant Twins & the Curse of the Griseum is nominated for a 2014 CYBILS Award.
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