2024
Senior Literary Contest - Poems - 1st Place (On Turning 80)
Senior Literary Contest - Short Stories - Honourable Mention (The Legend of Sundial Hill)
The Senior Literary Contest, sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion, is open to all Ontario residents ‘55 or better’ and is comprised of four categories: poems, memoirs, short stories and biographies.
Lake County Literary Lapses Short Story Competition - 2nd Place (Opening chapter of Secrets & Sorrows)
2007
Lake County Literary Lapses Short Story Competition - 1st Place (Yesterday Once More)
The Lake County Literary Lapses Festival Short Story Competition is organized by the Mariposa Writers' Group and recognizes unpublished, new and/or emerging local writers.
The Literary Lapses competition is named in honour of the Stephen Leacock book of the same name. Stephen Leacock grew up on Lake Simcoe, the same lake on which Beverley Baker resides. The Leacock Museum is now a National Historic Site of Canada.