Awards: 2002/2003 Janet's collection: "Tickets to a Closing Play" has won the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award. For details, click here: Three of Janet's poems, "Sisters in Stone," "That Day of Red," and "What If the Scalpel Slips?" were recently nominated by Verse Libre Quarterly, Erosha, and Facets Magazine for the 2002 Pushcart Prize in Poetry. These are Janet's fourth, fifth, and sixth Pushcart nominations. The first two were in 2000 (Gravity and Kimera) and the third was in 2001 (Pedestal Magazine). H.G. Wells Literary Award from Kisswebsites for her body of work

Awards: 2001 Thunder Rain Award 2001 from L'Intrigue for her essay "A Writer's Salve." "This Boot of Death," Poem of the Year at Sol Magazine The Kota Press Anthology Prize 2001 First Place in Kimera's Poetry Contest 2001 Janet's poem "The Teapoy" was nominated by The Pedestal Magazine for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry.

Awards: 2000 Janet Buck is a semi-finalist in the Y2K poetry contest sponsored by Northwoods Press and The Conservatory of American Letters. Finalists are published in a book entitled Life Shards: ISBN: 0-89002-355-7. The winning poet is yet to be announced.

Poet of the Week, June 14, 2000 from Potpourri Romance Online

Pushcart Nomination: "Bones & Borders," Kimera, 1999

Pushcart Nomination: "Acrylic Thighs," Newton's Baby Press, 1999

First Place: "A Klee in Coal." Black Butterfly Press: On the Same Page Contest, Fall, 1999

First Place: "Mistaking Snow for Sugar Bowls," Orpheus Fiction and Poetry Cafe Contest, August, 1999

Third Place: "Bones & Borders," "Baseball Cards," "Frostbite," "Honest Salt," and "The Fragile Vase," Kimera's Poetry Contest, Spring, 1999

Second Place: "In Green," Poetry Heaven's 1998 Contest, April, 1999

First Place: "The Titanic and the Iceberg," Poetic Peaches & Dreams 1999 Competition, February, 1999

Honorable Mention: "Avocado Issue Pie," Gravity's Poetry Contest, Fall, 1998

Seventh Place: "The Jellyfish," Poetry Super Highway Contest, Fall, 1998

Editor's Choice Award: "Bananas," Voyager Publishing, Winter, 1998

Revised April 12, 2000