M. M. De Voe has won awards, mention, or been shortlisted for the following awards: 

• The Wake, five-word poetry contest (2012)
• Carve Magazine Fiction contest (2011, short story)
• 2010 NMW short-short fiction award
• The Campaign for Real Fear (2010)
• 2009 Literal Latte Short-Short Fiction Contest
• 2009 Wordstock Short Fiction Award
• 2008 Eric Hoffer Award for Best New Writing (short story)
• The 2007 Pushcart Prize (short story)
• 2007 Best of the ‘Net (short story)
• 2007 Best of the Web (short story)
• Sojourn’s 2007 Editor’s Choice Award (Work in Fiction)
• Best of the First Line 2006 (short story)
• The 2006 Pushcart Prize (short story)
• The 2005 Pushcart Prize (short story)
• The 2004 Dana Awards (unpublished novel)
• The 2004 Bellwether Prize (unpublished novel)
• Fish Publishing’s 2003 Short Story Prize
• H. E. Francis Short Story Competition 2002
• Phoebe’s 2001 Short Story Contest
• PRISM: international 1999 Short Fiction Competition
• nowCulture.com’s 1998 Annual Poetry Contest
• The 1997 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Competition
• The Lyric’s 1990 National Poetry Contest

She won the Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award in June 1999, and has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in the World since 2004.

De Voe is the recipient of the following fellowships and grants:

• 2012 The Fund for Creative Communities (for her work with Pen Parentis)
• 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant (for her work with Pen Parentis)
• Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grants for Gay-Positive Historical Fiction 
• Fiction Fellowship: Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Columbia Writing Fellowship