Awarded the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award for literature presented by the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Ceremony held May 11, 2024, at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.
2023 LeAnne Howe was selected for a residency at the Ground Floor Berkeley Rep Center for the creation and development of new work. She and Irish playwright Colm Summers, and dramaturg Emma Denson were chosen nationally to work on their new play, THE KEENING. The play, a musical, is the story of the Choctaw gift to the Irish in 1847, and the two nations continuing connections.
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for the body of work from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Literary Award, Atlanta, GA.
Gold Telly Award for the national PBS documentary SEARCHING FOR SEQUOYAH. Howe, writer and producer, and James Fortier, director and producer, received awards.
2015 Western History Distinguished Achievement Award.
2014 Modern Language Award (MLA) first biennial prize for Studies in Native American Literatures.
2012 Named United States Artists, Ford Fellow, United States Artists Foundation,
Los Angeles, CA.
Awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. The ceremony, Sept 5-7, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2011 Received, along with theater scholars, Ric Knowles, Jill Carter, Monique Mojica, Brenda Farnell, $238,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant held at the University of Guelph, Canada. The grant is for research and writing a new play co-authored with Monique Mojica. Sideshow Freaks and Circus Injuns.
NAISA (Native American and Indigenous Studies Association) voted Reasoning Together, The Native Critics Collective, one of the ten most influential books in the first decade of the twenty-first century by the membership of over 800 scholars.
Awarded Tulsa Library Trust’s “American Indian Author Award” at Central Library, Tulsa, OK.
2010-2011 J. William Fulbright Scholar, University of Jordan, Amman.
2007 Interviewed on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, airing May 7, 2007 on Comedy Central’s “Trail of Cheers,” segment.
2006-2007 Selected by Barry Hannah for the John and Renee Grisham’s Writer-in-
Residence, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.
2005 EVIDENCE of RED, poetry. Honors: 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for poetry. Oklahoma Libraries Association and the Oklahoma Center of the Book.
2002 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year, Fiction for the novel SHELL SHAKER.
2001 SHELL SHAKER received an American Book Award. In 2004 Equinoxes Rouge,the French translation of SHELL SHAKER was the 2004 finalist for Prix Medici Estranger, one of France’s top literary prizes.