Atlanta & Company Book Club Pick in collaboration with Borders Books, for August 2007 (for Miss American Pie) 2007
SIBA Book Award Finalist (for Miss American Pie) 2007
A Book Sense Notable for June 2007 (for Miss American Pie)
Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year for 2007 (for Miss American Pie)
Washington Post Critics’ Choice of Best Memoirs for 2006 (for Miss American Pie)
Washington Post Best Books of the Year for 2007 (for Miss American Pie)
Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection, March 2007 (for Miss American Pie)
A Book Sense Notable for August 2006 (for Miss American Pie)
Professional Development Award from Duke University Institute of the Arts 2002
Village Voice, “The Top Ten Photography Books of 1999,” by Vince Aletti (for What Was True)
USA Today’s “Hot Sites” TOP PICK online weekend edition, February 4, 2000, The William Gedney Photographs and Writings Website: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/
Nominated for the 1998-1999 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Professional Development Award from Duke University Institute of the Arts, 1997
Print Magazine, Annual design Award Issue 1996, (for layout in DoubleTake Magazine, Issue 6, fall 1996)
Second Prize, The Photo Review Annual Competition 1995, juror: Charles Hagen
Third Award, Photo Biennial 1994, Westport Arts Center, Westport, Connecticut, juror: Melissa Harris
Third Prize, The Photo Review Annual Competition 1994, juror: Deborah Willis
North Carolina Visual Artists Project Grant 1993
First Place, Design and Production Excellence 1991, Rocky Mountain Publishers Association, (for River of Traps)
Print Magazine, Annual Design Award Issue 1984, (for cover of Washington Post Sunday Magazine)
Second Place, University of North Carolina Undergraduate/Graduate Juried Art Show, 1980, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC