Contests, Awards, & Exclusives:
2020
- “The Acquittal” – winner of the 2020 Breakwater Fiction Prize, selected by Susanna Kaysen
- “Sometimes a Guardrail is Missing” – shortlisted for the 1st annual Barren Magazine Flash Fiction Prize
- “Sign Language Connects My Children to Their Grandmother” – The Boston Globe Magazine
- “Things That Need to Go” – Lunate flash fiction competition, 2nd place
- “Gag Order” – Bending Genres
- “A Non-Exhaustive List of Ways to Leave and Be Lost” – Pidgeonholes (forthcoming, Sept. 23)
- “Animal Behavior” – CHEAP POP (forthcoming, Oct. 15)
- “Grown-Ups Also Lie: Three Micros” – Fractured Literary (forthcoming, Oct. 19)
2019
- “A Collection of Cells” – Pithead Chapel Larry Brown Short Story Award, 2nd place
- “Queen of Hearts” – Pithead Chapel Larry Brown Short Story Award, 3rd place
2017
- “Balancing Blocks” – winner of The Writer magazine’s inaugural personal essay contest
Finalist:
- 2020 Anton Chekhov Prize For Very Short Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review
- 2020 Beacon Street Prize for fiction, Redivider
- 2020 Lamar York Short Fiction Prize, Chattahoochee Review
- 2020 New Millennium Flash Fiction Award
- 2020 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards
- 2019 Gabriele Rico Challenge for Creative Nonfiction, Reed Magazine
- 2019 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Contest, Cutthroat
Honorable Mention:
- 2020 – Writer’s Digest 89th Annual Writing Competition, Mainstream/Literary category
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