Winner,
descant‘s 2018 Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for
Balance
2nd Place winner,
Glimmer Train Family Matters 2018 for
Boy Strangling Goose
Winner, 2016
Solstice Short Fiction Award for
Cat Calls
Finalist, Nag’s Head–Stories, 2015 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, sponsored by Snake Nation Press
1st Place, 2015 Rubery Book Award, for Still Life, now anthologized in Still Life, available in print at Amazon
2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for Still Life, appearing in Superstition review online.
2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for Yodeling for Life, appearing in fall, 2014 issue of Nashville Review
2015 Pushcart Prize nomination for Cherish the Muffin Top, appearing in Houdini, 2014 issue of Literary Orphans.
Finalist, 2013 Rick Demarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, for Annabelle’s Children
Finalist, June, 2014, Glimmer Train Family Matters Award for Roanoke
Winner,
Emrys Journal, December, 2013, Sue Lile Inman Fiction award for
Nuzzi Great-Grandpa
Finalist, September, 2013,
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for
This Is Not a Confession
Finalist, August, 2013,
Glimmer Train Fiction Open Award for
The Wild Pandas of Chincoteague
Finalist, June, 2013,
Glimmer Train Family Matters Award for
Annabelle’s Children
Finalist, May, 2013,
Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for
Knothole
Pushcart Prize Nominee for
An Evening with Willie Freeze in spring 2012 Baltimore Review; also nominated for
Finalist, summer 2011, Reynolds Price Fiction Award given by Salem College Center for Women Writers for Shame
Winner, summer 2011 New South short fiction award for Who’s Akela
Winner, spring 2011, Gulf Stream Magazine short fiction award for Svidrigaylov’s Dream
Pushcart Prize Nominee for Interstate Nocturne in fall 2010 Tertulia Magazine
Finalist, 2010, Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award for a book length collection
Finalist, 2010, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts for Terrorist
Honorable Mention, 2010, Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest for East on West I-90
Finalist, January 2010, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for Old Yeller
Finalist, October 2009, Glimmer Train Family Matters Award for Attack of the Snow Angels
Winner, 1997, A.E. Coppard Prize for the Long Story, White Eagle Coffee Store Press for Among the Marigolds
