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Poems

• "Ariadne," second place, Kaleidoscope annual poetry contest, 1998-99.
• “Blind Fire,” honorable mention, Hart Crane Poetry Contest (Icon), 2000.
• "The Classmate," honorable mention, Hart Crane Poetry Contest (Icon), 2000.
• "First Night," honorable mention, Kaleidoscope annual poetry contest, 1998-99.
• “For David, with Love,” honorable mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 13th ed., 2000.
• "The Golden Age," 2008 Rhysling nominee (Short Form); reprinted, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology: The Best SF, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2007, selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and edited by Drew Morse.
• "I Wander in the Mists," honorable mention, Flashes of Darkness/Mirrormask Competition, Future Fire: Speculative Fiction and Dark Fantasy, December 2005.
• "Late," Halloween contest runner-up, Raven Poetrick, a publication of Raven Electrick: Tales of Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery, October 2001.
• "Moonlit Fields" selected for consideration for the Dwarf Stars Award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association; reprinted, Dwarf Stars 2007: The Best Speculative Poems of Ten Lines or Less from 2006, Ed. Deborah P. Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson.
• "The Path of Man and Nature," honorable mention, Silver Wings Thanatopsis Contest, 1988.
• Poet Category, ranked 15th in the Preditors & Editors' Readers' Poll for 2007.
• "Renewal," honorable mention, Silver Wings New Life Wings Contest, 1989.
• "Rildix Falls," nominated for the Rhysling Award (Long Form) of the Science Fiction Poetry Association; reprinted, 2006 Rhysling Anthology.
• "Throat," 16th place in the Poem Category, The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll for 2007.
• Titled Bard of the Barony of Marinus (SCA Kingdom of Atlantia), 1992-93, through winning the Eistedffod Competition at the Baronial Birthday celebration--a competition that included my performance of one of my original songs and one medieval ballad set to my original music.

Nonfiction

• Fellowship from the William Morris Society in the United States for conference paper, 1998-99.

Reviews Concerning Lyn C. A. Gardner

"Twisted Cat Tales is a cat anthology ... edited by Esther Schrader with a delightful cover by husband Jack Schrader (a feline parody of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream).... The first and last stories in the anthology are probably the best and most memorable, and neither are anthropomorphic: 'Fine Flying Things,' by C. A. Gardner, a laid-back comedy in which all cats lose their gravity and slowly float up into the sky; and 'The Last Lion,' by Fox Cutter, a bittersweet tale of the fate of the last lion in the world."

--Fred Patten, Anthro #6: Reviews by Fred Patten, 2006

"Legends of the Pendragon. Attention lovers of original stories about The Matter of Britain: Jim Lowder has put together another anthology of Arthurian short stories and this one is better than his last. ... Entries by established writers are numerous and, as one would expect, often spellbinding. Among these are an absorbing retelling of the tale of Vortigern and Hengist with Rowenna at the center of the maelstrom, authored by Nancy Varian Berberick; a very clever and unique alternative to Arthur's parentage by C. A. Gardner; and a story by Cherith Baldry that captures the true spirit of this volume, the foreshadowing of the fall of Camelot, in this case reflected in events of the early lives of Arthur and Kay. ... This volume containing twenty original short stories is an exciting new edition to the body of Arthurian fiction that keeps the legend fresh and alive."

--Larry Mendelsberg, Journal of the Oxford Arthurian Society, 2002

The Doom of Camelot. "For some authors the doom of Camelot lies in multiple weaknesses and flaws, woven together with the light and hope. (Three Queens Weeping" by C.A. Gardner, "Surrendering the Blade" by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, "Avillion" by Verlyn Flieger)."

--Morgan Dhu, "One Brief Shining Moment," Bibliogramma, June 17, 2007

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