Honors & Awards

“Sixteen, Summer” awarded third place in the 24th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition, February 2024

“New Mercies” selected as Fiction Finalist for the Maine Literary Awards, Spring 2023

“Lorraine” placed 17th in the 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition, February 2023

“Yellow Bird” nominated by South 85 Journal for a Pushcart Prize, December 2022

“Yellow Bird” awarded flash fiction winner in the 2022 Julia Peterkin Literary Award for Flash Fiction & Poetry, October 2022

“Dirty Shirley” selected as one of 25 winners in the Fractured Lit Anthology II Contest, July 2022

“New Mercies” selected as Fiction Finalist for the 52nd New Millennium Writing Awards, January 2022

“Pioneers” selected for the 2021 Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize Shortlist, September 2021

“Where Nobody Knows Your Name” selected as a fiction finalist for the Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers Contest, August 2021

“Romance” selected as a finalist for the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance 2021 Maine Literary Awards

“Avian Elegies” selected for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2021

“A Private Practice” selected as Fiction Finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writing Awards, January 2021

“Leave Her Wild” nominated by JMWW for a Best of the Net Award, August 2018

“Leave Her Wild” nominated by JMWW for a Pushcart Prize, November 2017