Below is a partial list of the author's most recent awards and publications.  His other winning tales are included in his collection of short story anthologies, and are highlighted there.  To date he has won or placed in 145 contests.

• 1st Place with Domino at the 2002 Arkansas Writers’ Conference, Lucille R. Longstreth Memorial Award contest. 

NOTE:  Domino has been published into a children's book.  See the page on this website titled:  Children's Book.

• 2nd Place with A Little Imagination at the 2003 White County Creative Writers’ Conference, Children’s Story contest. 

• 2nd Honorable Mention with Hide and Seek at the 2005 Ozark Creative Writers' Conference, Clouse Literary Arts and Theatre Award contest.

• 3rd Honorable Mention with A Little Imagination at the 2007 White County Creative Writers’ Conference, Just for Kids Award. 

Steve with his wife at the 2002 Arkansas Writers' Conference Awards Banquet in Little Rock.

• Honorable Mention (4th Place) with A Little Imagination in the 2009 Kansas Author's Club District 2 Children's Story Contest.

• Honorable Mention (4th Place) with A Little Imagination in the 2009 Kansas Author's Club Annual Literary Contest Story for Children.

• 3rd Honorable Mention with A Little Imagination at the 2011 White County Creative Writers' Conference, For Kids Award.

• 2nd Place with Adrift Again at the 2005 Ozark Creative Writers' Conference, Oxbow Award (western) contest.

Steve would like to thank "Best Selling" writer, Judge Vic Fleming, for his support of authors.

• 2nd Place with Neighbors at the 2005 Ozark Creative Writers' Conference, The Writer's Zone Award contest.

• Honorable Mention with Confessions of Faded Memories in the February 2007 issue of ByLine magazine for the Personal Experience Article contest.

• 2nd Place with Darwin to Eureka in the Ozarks Writers League (OWL) February 2007 Gene Andereck Short Story Contest.

Jeanie Horn, OWL's President, presents Steve with his 2nd Place certificate.  Thank you, OWL!

• 2nd Place with Darwin to Eureka in the 2007 Arkansas Writers' Conference's Arkansas Pioneer Branch  NLAPW Prose Award.

• 3rd Place with Borderline Madness in the 2007 Arkansas Writers' Conference's Pen Point Writers Award.

• 3rd Honorable Mention with Across the River Styx in the 2007 White County Creative Writers' Conference RobertsFamilyArk Award.

• 2nd Place with Burning Fields in the 2008 Gene Andereck Short Story Contest sponsored by the Ozarks Writers League (OWL).

Jim Callan with Northeast Texas Writers' Organization presents Steve with the 1st Place certificate.  Thank you, NETWO!

• Honorable Mention with Stinker in the April 2008 issue of ByLine magazine for Humor Sketch contest. 

• 3rd Honorable Mention with Double Memory in the 2008 Arkansas Writers' Conference's Arkansas Center for the Book Award contest.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Zoom a Zoom and a Boom Boom in the 2008 Arkansas Writers' Conference's Dorothy Truex Award contest.

• 3rd Place with Photo Album in the 2008 Arkansas Writers' Conference's Penpoint Writers' Group Award contest.

• 1st Place with Meandering in the 2008 Arkansas Writers' Conference's Westward Ho Award contest.  Sponsored by Dusty Richards.

Dusty won two Spur awards in 2007.  What an honor, Steve said, to finally win 1st place in Dusty's contest!!!

• 2nd Place with Local Writing Groups Show Talent at the 2008 White County Creative Writers' Conference, Red, White, and Blue Award.

• 2nd Place with We Can Do Better, Y'all at the 2008 White County Creative Writers' Conference, Searcy Living Award.

• 2nd Place with This Road, I Stretch on Forever at the 2008 White County Creative Writers' Conference, Tell Me a Story Award.

• 3rd Place with Dear Friendenemy at the 2008 White County Creative Writers' Conference, RobertsFamilyArk Award.

• 3rd Place with Down Will Come Baby at the 2008 White County Creative Writers' Conference, W.C.C.W. Award.

• 2nd Place with Average at the 52nd Grand Prairie Festival of Arts' Adult Short Story fiction writing contest in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Average in the 2008 Springfield Writers' Guild Annual Literary Contest, Jim Stone Memorial Award Grand Prize for Fiction.

• 1st Place with Confessions of a Young Drunk in the 2008 Springfield Writers' Guild Annual Literary Contest, Jim Stone Memorial Award Grand Prize for Nonfiction.

• Honorable Mention with Photo Album in the 2008 Springfield Writers' Guild Annual Literary Contest, Prose-Short Story Award.

• 3rd Place with We Can Do Better, Y'all in the 2008 Springfield Writers' Guild Annual Literary Contest, Prose-Essay Award.

• 1st Place with Drinking Me To Death in the 2008 Maumelle Writers' Conference Current Events contest.

• 1st Place with Photo Album in the 2009 2nd Annual Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Prose Contest.

• Selected Winner in short fiction with Average, Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild 2009 Well Versed anthology edition.

• Selected Winner in nonfiction with Local Writing Group Shows Talent, Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild 2009 Well Versed anthology edition.

• 2nd Place with Across the River Styx in the 2009 Kansas Author's Club District 2 Short Story Contest.

• 3rd Place with A Mother's Vendetta in the 2009 Arkansas Writers' Conference, White County Creative Writers Award.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with Break and Pop in the 2009 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Dorothy Truex Award.

• 3rd Place with Pax Romana in the 2009 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Arkansas Pioneer Branch NLAPW Prose Award.

• 3rd Place with Bragg v. State of Arkansas in the 2009 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Grif Stockley Award.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Good News in the 2009 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Grand Conference Award.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with War on Drugs in the 2009 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Love Pat Award.

• 3rd Honorable Mention with Alpine Limbo at the 2009 White County Creative Writers' Conference, HPMEC Short Story Award.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with Buried in the Paper at the 2009 White County Creative Writers' Conference, The Penpoint Group Award.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Reader's Choice at the 2009 White County Creative Writers' Conference, LovePat Award.

• Honorable Mention (5th Place) with Across the River Styx in the 2009 Writing on Walls III contest sponsored by The Storyteller Magazine.

• 10th Place with Not What I Expected in the 2009 Third Annual Amazing Story Fiction Contest sponsored by The Write Helper.

• 1st Place with Milk and Honey in the Irene Smith Memorial Award at the 2009 Grand Prairie Festival of Arts Creative Writing Competition, Stuttgart, Arkansas.

• 2nd Honorable Mention (3rd Place) with Break and Pop in the 2009 Springfield Writers' Guild 16th Annual Literary Awards, Jim Stone Memorial Contest.

• 2nd Place with My Mountain Home in the 2009 Springfield Writers' Guild 16th Annual Literary Awards, Essay/Article-Ozark Related Contest.

• 3rd Place with Stinker in the 2009 Springfield Writers' Guild 16th Annual Literary Awards, Prose-Humor Contest.

• Honorable Mention with It Was Only a Dream, Right? in the 2009 The Verb Ezine Reading Writers' Excellence in Story, Inspired by a Song from 1977 and set in the Year 1977.

• 2nd Place with Spoiled, Grumpy People in the 2009 Maumelle Writers' Conference My POV--Pet Peeves contest.

• 1st Place with Volunteer State in the 2009 Maumelle Writers' Conference Essay:  I Volunteer Because... contest.

• 2nd Place with Home Wanted in the 2009 Maumelle Writers' Conference Short Story:  Anything Goes Fiction contest.

• 1st Place with Buried in the Paper in The Silver Quill Society Short Story Contest, Best Short Fiction 2009.

• First Round Finalist with Falling in the 2010 The Verb Ezine Reading Writers' Excellence in Story, theme with snow.

• 3rd Place with Not What I Expected in the 2010 Oklahoma Writers' Federation Inc. Short-Short Story contest.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with War on Drugs in the 2010 Oklahoma Writers' Federation Inc. Essay contest.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Upward in the 2010 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Grand Conference Award.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Something to Look Forward to in the 2010 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Lawrence L. May Memorial Award.

• 3rd Place with Can We Take It Home in the 2010 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Humane Society of Pulaski County Award.

• 3rd Place with The Skirmish in the 2010 Arkansas Writers' Conference, High Cotton on the Bayou Award.

• 1st Place with This Road, I Stretch on Forever in the 2010 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Arkansas My Arkansas Award.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with Branches in Time at the 2010 White County Creative Writers' Conference, Baker-Nichols Award.

• 3rd Honorable Mention with Spoiled, Grumpy People at the 2010 White County Creative Writers' Conference, CMH Inspirational Essay Award.

• 1st Place with Meandering at the 2010 White County Creative Writers' Conference, Westward Ho! Award.

• Honorable Mention with Skirmish at the 2010 Grand Prairie Festival of Arts' Adult Short Story fiction writing contest in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

• Honorable Mention with A Different Perspective at the 2010 Grand Prairie Festival of Arts' Adult Short Story nonfiction writing contest in Stuttgart, Arkansas.

• 1st Honorable Mention with Branches in Time at the 2010 Maumelle Writers Conference in the Fiction Any Genre contest.

• 3rd Place with Within Seconds at the 2010 Maumelle Writers Conference in the Fiction Any Genre contest.

• 3rd Place with Readers' Choice at the 2010 Maumelle Writers Conference in the Essay-Why I Like to Write contest.

• 2nd Place with Come On, People at the 2010 Maumelle Writers Conference in the Essay-How to Protect Maumelle contest.

• Honorable Mention with Pax Romana in the 2010 Saturday Writers Short Story contest.

• Honorable Mention with Milk and Honey in the 2010 Saturday Writers Short Story contest.

• First Round Finalist with The Wind Cried Mary in the 2011 The Verb Ezine Reading Writers' Excellence in Story, theme where an item is lost.

• 1st Honorable Mention with And a Child Shall Lead in the 2011 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Erdel Family Award.

• 2nd Place with Teach Your Children Well in the 2011 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Scott Plantation Settlement Award.

• Honorable Mention with George Washington Submerged in Beer in the 2011 The Verb Ezine Reading Writers' Odd, Wacky, Don't See That All The Time theme contest.

• 3rd Place (Judge's Pick for Fiction) with It Was Only a Dream, Right? in the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed-Literary Works 2011.

• 3rd Place with Reader's Choice at the 2011 White County Creative Writers' Conference, How'd They Do That? Award.

• 1st Place with The Sage at the 2011 White County Creative Writers' Conference, That's What You Get Award.

• Honorable Mention with A Pronuonced Road in the 2011 The Verb Ezine Reading Writers' The Road to Eerie theme contest.

• 3rd Honorable Mention with Hell is for Children in the 2012 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Grand Conference Award II.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with What Does it Say? in the 2012 Arkansas Writers' Conference, White River Writers' Guild Award.

• 2nd Honorable Mention with Pampa in the 2012 Arkansas Writers' Conference, Gale S. Gill Award.

• 1st Place with Welcome to Dardanelle in the 2012 White County Creative Writers' Conference, That's Phantasmic! Award.

• 1st Place with A Different Perspective in the 2012 White County Creative Writers' Conference, Personal Humorous Essay Award.

• Whisnant, S. (2012).  Terrapin Trouble.  Tales From the South: Volume IV, Temenos Publishing.  An anthology from writers who submitted to Tales from the South.  NOTE:  To be published in 2012.

• Whisnant, S. (2012).  Spoiled, Grumpy People.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2012. 

• Whisnant, S. (2012).  Pax Americana.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2012. 

• Whisnant, S. (2011).  Falling.  Echoes of the Ozarks: Volume VII, AWOC.COM Publishing.  An anthology from members of the Ozarks Writers League. 

• Whisnant, S. (2011).  This Road, I Stretch on Forever.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2011. 

• Whisnant, S. (2011).  It Was All a Dream, Right?  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2011. 

• Whisnant, S. (2011). A Mother's Vendetta. Mysteries of the Ozarks, Volumne III.

• Whisnant, S. (2010).  My Mountain Home.  Echoes of the Ozarks: Volume VI, AWOC.COM Publishing.  An anthology from members of the Ozarks Writers League. 

• Whisnant, S. (2010).  Voltaire and 9/11.  Tales From the South: Volume III, Temenos Publishing.  An anthology from writers who submitted to Tales from the South. 

• Whisnant, S. (2010).  Not What I Expected.  Voices Anthology Volume III. 

• Whisnant, S. (2010).  Zoom a Zoom and a Boom Boom.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2010. 

• Whisnant, S. (2010).  War on Drugs.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2010. 

• Whisnant, S. (2010).  Confessions of a Young Drunk.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2010. 

• Whisnant, S. (2010). Last Judgment.  2010 Yearbook Volume 106.  An anthology from members of the Kansas Authors club.

• Whisnant, S. (2010, January/February/March).  Buried in the Paper.  The Storyteller. 

• Whisnant, S. (2009).  Break & Pop.  Echoes of the Ozarks: Volume V, AWOC.COM Publishing.  An anthology from members of the Ozarks Writers League.  

• Whisnant, S. (2009).  Across the River Styx.  Writing on the Walls III.  An anthology published by The Storyteller Magazine. 

• Whisnant, S. (2009). We Can Do Better, Y'all .  Searcy Living, December 2008/January 2009.

• Whisnant, S. (2009).  Local Writing Groups Show Talent.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2009. 

• Whisnant, S. (2009).  Average.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2009. 

• Whisnant, S. (2009).  Photo Album.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2009. 

• Whisnant, S. (2008).  Skittering.  Echoes of the Ozarks: Volume IV, AWOC.COM Publishing.  An anthology from members of the Ozarks Writers League. 

• Whisnant, S. (2008).  Utopian Dreams.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2008. 

• Whisnant, S. (2008).  Listen to me, Honey.  The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers' Guild Well Versed - 2008. 

• Whisnant, S. (2008).  Full Fledge Quackery.  Northeast Texas Writers’ Organization (NETWO) Anthology. 

• Whisnant, S. (2007).  Shake, Shake, Shake.  Tales From the South: Volume II, Temenos Publishing.  An anthology from writers who submitted to Tales from the South. 

• Whisnant, S. (2007).  Just Sitting.  Echoes of the Ozarks: Volume III, AWOC.COM Publishing.  An anthology from members of the Ozarks Writers League. 

• Whisnant, S. (Spring 2007).  Cheese Dip.  Camp Tetelestai Cookbook.  Note:  The author submitted his recipe for cheese dip to this good cause to raise funds for a camp.  Website:  www.camptetelestai.org

• Whisnant, S. (2007, July/August/September).  After Elkhorn.  The Storyteller. 

• Whisnant, S. (2006).  A Little Hope.  Echoes of the Ozarks: Volume II, AWOC.COM Publishing.  An anthology from members of the Ozarks Writers League.

• Whisnant, S. (2006, October/November/December).  Synchronicity.  The Storyteller.

• Whisnant, S. (Fall 2006).  Sybil. Tales From the South: Volume I, Temenos Publishing.  An anthology from writers who submitted to Tales from the South.

• Whisnant, S. (2006, July/August/September).  Pending Death.  The Storyteller. 

• Whisnant, S. (2006, January/February/March).  Pooh & Jesus.  The Storyteller.

• Whisnant, S. (2005, October/November/December).  Soccer Mom.  The Storyteller.

• Whisnant, S.  (2005, Fall/Winter; Vol. 14/No. 2).  Preparing For Your Child's Birth Certificate:  Why It's Important and Why You Should Care. Parenting In Arkansas, pp. 16.

• Whisnant, S. (2005, July/August/September).  The Tree of Life.  The Storyteller.

• Whisnant, S. (2005, April/May/June).  Friendship Made in Heaven. The Storyteller.

• Whisnant, S. (2005, January/February/March).  Sybil.  The Storyteller. 

• 2nd Place with Sybil in the People's Choice Award from The Storyteller magazine.  Selection for this award came from the subscribers who read the story in the January/February/March, 2005 issue.

Note:  The author has written several versions of Sybil.  The story in Quills & Pixels is different from the version that placed in a ByLine magazine contest and was featured in The Storyteller.  In January 2006, KUAR Public Radio in Arkansas aired the story, read by the author.  See the Appearances/Events page.

• Whisnant, S. (2004, October/November/December).  The Harmonica Affair. The Storyteller. 

• Whisnant, S.  (April 13, 2003).  A vital certificate.  Guest Writer, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

• Whisnant, S.  (April 10, 2003).  So what happened to Mike Haynie?  Special Contributor, The Sherwood Voice.

• Whisnant, S., Hammond, R., and Tilmon, R.  (1999, July/August).  Comparing methods of counseling among Arkansas CADCs.  The Counselor, pp. 33-36. 

• Whisnant, S.  (1999, Number 2).  Sybil.  Quills & Pixels, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

• Public Reading:  Starving Artist Cafe, North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Date:  TBA.  Recording for a public reading of Steve's story, Each Day Anew, on Tales From the South.

• Whisnant, S. (January 2010, Issue 4).  Adrift Again.  Frontier Tales Magazine (an online magazine). 

• Public Reading:  Starving Artist Cafe, North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Date:  August 10, 2009.  Recording for a public reading of Steve's story, Terrapin Trouble, on Tales From the South.

Gale Gill reads at Starving Artist Cafe on August 10, 2009.

• Public Reading:  Starving Artist Cafe, Little Rock, Arkansas.  March 17, 2008.  Recording for a public reading of Steve's award-winning story, Voltaire and 9/11, on Tales From the South.

• Whisnant, S. (2007).  New Madrid Sunrise.  Western, Amazon.com Shorts.  (Click title to download; cost is 49 cents).

• Public Reading:  Starving Artist Cafe, Little Rock, Arkansas.  June 11, 2007.  Recording for a public reading of Steve's award-winning story, Shake, Shake, Shake, on Tales From the South.

• Whisnant, S. (2007).  Last Supper.  Mystery story, Amazon.com Shorts.  (Click title to download; cost is 49 cents).

• Whisnant, S. (2007).  Certification of Death.  Horror story, Amazon.com Shorts.  (Click title to download; cost is 49 cents).

• Whisnant, S. (2006, January).  Monkey Ranch Creek.  Arkansas Only, an online magazine. 

• Whisnant, S. (2005, December).  Pooh & Jesus.  Short Story, SouthLit Magazine, an online magazine. 

• Public Reading:  KUAR, Little Rock, Arkansas.  November 9, 2005.  Recording for a public reading of Steve's award-winning essay, Sybil, on Tales From the South, a show created and produced by A Way With Words Writing Workshops, engineered by Travis Hill, and aired on KUAR Public Radio in Arkansas on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7pm.  You can listen to archived shows here: http://www.ualr.edu/kuar/tales.html

• Whisnant, S.  (2005, January/February).  Self-Publishing.  Soup's On (Electronic Newsletter by Andrea Campbell).

• Whisnant, S. (2001).  The Existentialist.  Website with short stories, hosted by Jan Davis.