• Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1984) (How Far She Went)
• The Southern Review /Louisiana State University Short Fiction Award (1984)(How Far She Went)
• National Magazine Award in fiction (1986) "Something Good for Ginnie"
• Lillian Smith Book Award (1987) (And Venus is Blue)
• Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists Author-of-the-Year Award (1987)(And Venus is Blue)
• Townsend Prize for Fiction (1988)(And Venus is Blue)
• The Whiting Writers' Award (1994)
• Robert Penn Warren Award (2001)

Novels

• Familiar Heat (Knopf, 1995)
• The Other Side of the River (in progress)

Novella

Short Story Collections

• How Far She Went (University of Georgia Press, 1984)
• And Venus is Blue (Ticknor & Fields, 1986)

Forewords, Contributing Chapters, Published Essays

• Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee by Raymond Andrews - Foreword by Mary Hood (University of Georgia Press, Reprint, 1988)
• Why Stop? - Essay by Mary Hood (The Gettysburg Review, Winter 1988) (The Best American Essays, 1989)
• The Sacrilege of Alan Kent by Erskine Caldwell - Foreword by Mary Hood, Wood Engravings by Ralph Frizzell (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
• "Tropic of Conscience," an historical essay on Northwest Georgia for The New Georgia Guide (University of Georgia Press 1996)

Anthologies Containing Work

• The Best American Essays (1989)
• Best American Short Stories
• Stories: Contemporary Southern Short Fiction edited by Donald Hays (1989)
• Editor's Choice
• Georgia Voices: Fiction edited by Hugh Ruppersburg (1992)
• Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers edited by Mary Ellis Gibson (1991)
• The Literary Dog: Great Contemporary Dog Stories edited by Jeanne Schinto (1990)
• New Stories from the South
• The Pushcart Prize Anthology
• Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway (1992, 3rd ed.)

Magazines Featuring Hood's Prose

• Art & Antiques
• Gray's Sporting Journal: The Bird Hunting Book (August 2000) with Clyde Edgerton, O. Victor Miller, Bailey White and John Yow
• Harper's Magazine
• North American Review
• Southern Magazine

Literary Reviews Featuring Hood's Work

• The Georgia Review
• The Gettysburg Review
• Kenyon Review
• Ohio Review
• Yankee

Interviews

• Wired for Books: Audio Interview with Mary Hood by Don Swaim (1987)
• North Georgia Oral History Series: Interview with Mary Hood by Dede Yow, Thomas A. Scott and Sallie Ellison Loy (Kennesaw State University Oral History Project 1999)

• How Far She Went - briefly noted in The New Yorker 60/49 (21 January 1985) : 93