April of 2009
Conception wins prestigious Friends of American Writers Adult Literary Fiction Award

January of 2009
Kalisha Buckhanon featured on the cover of Mosaic Literary Magazine for an article entitled "The Holistic Writer"

 January of 2008
Upstate selected as one of twenty books in Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s “Battle of the Book” competition

November of 2006
Upstate has been nominated for the 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction

August of 2006
Terry McMillan selects Kalisha for the inaugural Terry McMillan Young Author Award

February of 2006
Upstate wins a 2006 American Library Association ALEX Award

March of 2006
Upstate Audio Book winner of the 2006 Audie Award in the Category of Literary Fiction

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