Awards

Stan Goldberg, PhD

2012

    • First Place Award Winner Health: Death and Dying category, 2012 International Book Awards Leaning into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers

    • Finalist Self-Help General 2012 International Book Awards Leaning into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers

2011

    • First Place Award-Winner in the “Spirituality: Inspirational” category of the 2011 International Book Awards Lessons for the Living

2010

    • Best Buddhist Writing of 2010 An excerpt from Lessons for the Living has been chosen as lead chapter.

2009

    • Best Book Spiritual Category,  Lessons for the Living, London Book Festival,

    • Top Books of the Year, Lessons for the Living, MyShelf.com

    • Volunteer of the Year, Hospice Volunteer Association

2007

    • This I Believe NPR/PBS national radio program. One of six essayists chosen to read in San Francisco.

    • 1st Place, Choices, a play in three acts. 2007 Festival of New Work at the Oxford International Institute for Documentary and Drama in Conflict Transformation

2005

    • 1st Place, Living in the Elephant’s Footprint, Non-Fiction, 16th Annual Jack London Writing Conference

2004

    • 2nd Place, Who’s in Charge of Catching the Bad Guys? Foster City International Writing Contest, Humor

2002

    • 1st place You’ll Like It. Foster City International Writing Contest, Free Verse Poetry

    • 1st place You’ll Like It. Foster City International Writing Contest, Free Verse Poetry

    • 2nd Place, Demcheck Avenue Foster City International Writing Contest, Short Story

    • 3rd Place, Images of New York, Poem Kingdom National Poetry Contest

    • 2nd Place, Tidal Movements, American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging   Poetry/Photography Contest

    • 1st Place, Chariots of Conscience, Greyhound Lines National Essay Contest

2001

    • 1st Place, A Bean Hollow Goodbye, California State Poetry Society, August

    • 2nd Place, Images of New York, California State Poetry Society, September