Email Author Margaret Downing

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 22, 2011

  "Mistaken Identities"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Children of God"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 30, 2010

  "The Whipping Boy"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published June 3, 2010

  "Homeless High"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published June 4, 2009

  "Let the Record Reflect"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "Bad Faith"

• 2009 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published April 10, 2008

  "Exit Exams"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 8, 2008

  "Mental Anguish"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 31, 2007

  "Killing Fences"

• 2008 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 25, 2007

  "Death in a Box"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published August 23, 2007

  "Judging Books and Their Covers"

• 2007 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out'

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published October 5, 2006

  "Opt In, Opt Out"

• 2007 - Lone Star Awards, published May 11, 2006

  "Diary of a Mad Man"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published August 11, 2005

  "Who Cares?"

• 2006 - Lone Star Awards, published February 17, 2005

  "Mind Reading"

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2013 Stories by Margaret Downing

• published Jan 16, 2013

  Know everything there is to know about moviesr Seen everything that's up for an Oscar nomination this yearr Spend your time at parties tediously predicting who's going to win whatr Well, you might as... More >>

• Don Giovanni: Not a Nice Guy But a Fun Role for Adrian Erod to Play

  published Jan 15, 2013

  Adrian Erod, a baritone opera and lieder singer from Austria, has done The Marriage of Figaro, and Cosi Fan Tutti. But he was still missing one opera from the famous trio by Wolfgang Mozart and his li... More >>

• This Camelot Boasts Younger Actors and Real Swords on Stage (Paramedics Standing By)

  published Jan 14, 2013

  The time of Camelot with all its passion starting with the love triangle between Arthur, Lancelot and Guenevere was also a time of epic battles, says director Richard Stafford. So in this production... More >>

• Moore's Opera Center Opens Spring Season With Italian Love and Russians Vying For an Apartment

  published Jan 14, 2013

  Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston starts its spring season traditionally and otherwise with The Marriage of Figaro and Moscow, Cheryomushki. The first is a romantic successor to Th... More >>

• Memory House: Working Out How to Stay Together and to Go Away

  published Jan 11, 2013

  Playwright Kathleen Tolan spent eight months researching overseas adoptions by Americans of Russian children (something now closed to us) while getting ready to write Memory House, a play about an Am... More >>

• Cover Story: A Battle for Creative Control of the Video World and Its Profits

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Twenty-one-year-old Ben Vacas gained attention in the video game world as a top-ranked hunter in World of Warcraft. He moved from that to making videos about his experiences and that of other lead pla... More >>

• STOMP: Yes it's Back in Houston Employing New Household Instruments For Its Sound

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Andres "Pooh" Fernandez has been all over the world with STOMP for 16 years and now he's back on the road on his way to Houston (thanks to the Society for the Performing Arts) with his group of perfo... More >>

• The Mountaintop: An Imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Night

  published Jan 08, 2013

  The theater is the place for what ifs. That's what director Robert O'Hara believes makes The Mountaintop by Katori Hall so worth doing. The play imagines what the last night of life on earth was like... More >>

• Cover Story: The Canadian Pipeline Will Be Tearing Through Texas

  published Jan 02, 2013

  If President Obama approves it, a 1,700-mile pipeline will be built from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, connecting Canadian oil sand mines to our refineries. Proponents say something has to be don... More >>