Awards and Nominations
Best of the Net, Nomination — Brightly, Brightly (originally published in The Ilanot Review), 2024
Bridport Prize, Highly Commended Winner — Anna Wonders Whether Birds Will Build a Nest With Cat Hair, October, 2023
New Flash Fiction Review Flash Fiction Prize 2023, Shortlisted — Men Like Them (Marks Park, Sydney, 1988), July 2023
Fish Flash Fiction Prize, Shortlisted – Rattlesnake, April 2023
The Welkin Writing Prize, Shortlisted – Men Like Them (Marks Park, Sydney, 1988), April 2023
Fractured Lit Anthology Prize, Longlisted – Brightly, Brightly, March 2023
Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted – Rats, January, 2023
The Best Small Fictions, Nomination — Fourth Grade Science Lesson, Chickasaw City, Alabama (originally published at Bath Flash Fiction Award), 2022
Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition, Longlisted – Rattlesnake, November 2022
Bath Flash Fiction Award, Third Place – Fourth Grade Science Lesson, Chickasaw City, Alabama, October 2022
The Masters Review Anthology Competition, Winner – Barely a Sound, August 2022
Oprelle Publications’ “Into Pieces” Poetry Contest, Second Place —When Your Mother Suggests Scrapbooking as a Form of Therapy, March 2022
Best Small Fictions, Nomination – Dolores Tells Charlie She’s Going to the Gym (originally published as winner of Spider Road Press’s Web Microfiction Prize), December 2021
Spider Road Press’s Web Microfiction Prize, Winner – Dolores Tells Charlie She’s Going to the Gym, May 2021
Chestnut Review’s Chapbook Contest, Second Place – Running Into an Ex, July 2020
First Pages Prize, Shortlisted – Givenchy’s Kiss (novel-in-progress), March 2019
Clockwise Cat, Featured poet – Closure; The Difference Between Me and the Published; Obedience; Love vs. Gravity; Will Power; and On Running Into an Ex-Lover. Clockwise Rain, June 2016
Press 53 Open Award in Poetry, Finalist – Cubism, Closure, and On Running Into an Ex-Lover, July 2012
Shenandoah’s Bevel Summers Prize for Short-Short Fiction, Finalist –Private Lessons, April 2012
Shenandoah’s Bevel Summers Prize for Short-Short Fiction, Finalist – They Found Moby, April 2012
The Southeast Review’s World’s Best Short Short Story Competition, Finalist – Two Seconds, April 2008
Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Award, Grand Prize Winner – 3:57 (Night Vision), June, 2007