Midland Authors Award in Poetry, for Algebra of Night: New & Selected Poems 1948-1998, 2000.

Also in 2004, I Sailed With Magellan was awarded the prize in adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors.

Durham won the fiction award of the Society of Midland Authors in 1973 for The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.

He is a member of the Society of Midland Authors.

The Society of Midland Authors is headquartered in Chicago.

Donahey was a member of the American Press Humorists and Society of Midland Authors.

Bradley was one of the few female presidents of the Society of Midland Authors as well as an active clubwoman in Chicago.

Rodgers also won the Poet Laureate Award from the Society of Midland Authors in 1970.

Poetry Prize (Society of Midland Authors): Best book of poetry in 2002 for Out of the South.

River Road to the West received the American History Prize of the Society of Midland Authors.