IN CIRCLING FLIGHT selected for the longlist of 11th annual Crooks Corner Book Prize for best debut novels of the American South. 

Fiction Craft Talk & Reading from IN CIRCLING FLIGHT, part of the annual James Agee Online Reading Series at Pellissippi State Community College, Winter 2022-23

Winner of the 2019 Brighthorse Prize in the Novel,

award & publication for IN CIRCLING FLIGHT

Featured fiction writer, Carlow University MFA's monthly social justice reading series, "Raising Our Voices," April 2022 

"[mohr-ning] [suhn]"

Long-listed for the Fish Publishing International Flash Fiction Award 2021

Cork, Ireland

Spoke on "Controversies in Children's Literature" for the Hollins University graduate programs in children's writing and illustration, June 2020.

Podcast interview by Jewel B. with So Booking Cool, March 2020.

Fellow and Writer-In-Residence at Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts, Fairhope Alabama, 2018.

"The Visits"

Honorable Mention, Asheville Writers' Workshop Hard Times Contest, 2018;

Long-listed for Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize 2018, Cork, Ireland. 

Interview with Eastern Iowa Review, 2017.

"Settling" 

Short-listed for the 2016 Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award

Wexford Literary Festival, Wexford, Ireland.

Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Award for the Novel 2016,

Honorable Mention for WAY OUT FARM.

Guest author, Shepherd University Celebration of Appalachian Storytellers, 2015.

"Flight" -- Finalist for the 2015 Dana Award for the Novel.

Fellow and Writer-In-Residence at VCCA, Mt. San Angelo, 2014.

"All God's Children Gonna Take A Ride"

A “Highly Recommended” work in Ireland’s 2014 Sean O’Faolain International Short Story Prize competition, Munster Literature Center, Ireland; second place in the 2014 Virginia Golden Nib short story competition (chapter level); nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize.

"Into the Air" won first place, Writerhouse/C-Ville Creative Nonfiction Contest (2014).

"Dear John, I've Fallen for a Dog" short-listed for Fish Publishing Short Story Prize 2013;

“Watching—The Fall” long-listed for Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize 2013, Cork, Ireland.

Extreme Pets! chosen as one of the American Library Association's "Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers," 2008.

Extreme Pets! chosen as one of the featured books for beginning readers by Children's Choices, a project of the International Reading Association and The Children's Book Council, 2008.

Jane's Goodreads author page.

Longtime author member--AG profile 

Jane has long been a member of the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC. She currently curates their reading list for diversity and inclusion, and does social media administration.

Contributor to the Pencil Tips Writing Workshop, a blog featuring writing tips and tricks from various children's authors and illustrators.