2010 Finalist: The Bellwether Prize

Barbara Kingsolver sponsors this prize, and the National Writers United Service Organization manages it. My novel manuscript, Being Good About It, reached the final eight out of hundreds. The prize seeks to support a literature of social responsibility. It promotes literary novels that address issues of social justice and the impact of culture and politics on human relationships.

2010 January: LAByrinth Theater Company Master Class

I was recently accepted into the Master Class, a five-week program offered by the innovative LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Taught by company members, it's multi-disciplinary and includes work in body, movement, scene study, writing, performing, producing, and most importantly, ensemble building. The class culminates in a presentation of original work written by the class.

2009 Honorable Mention Finalist: Glimmer Train

My short story "Three Women Wishing for a Boy" won a spot as an Honorable Mention Finalist in the journal’s Short Story Award for New Writers. The piece made it into the top 5% of over a thousand entries.

2009 Third Place: American Fiction Prize from New Rivers Press

The judge, novelist Clint McCown, selected my story "Souvenirs" for third place from a field of 20 finalists. The story will appear in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Volume 11 due in fall 2010 from New Rivers Press. (Look for American Fiction on Facebook.) Writer's Digest has twice chosen the anthology as one of the best places in the United States to publish fiction. Now available for pre-order on Amazon.com

2008 Semi-Finalist: Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Amazon Top Reviewers and Editors selected my novel manuscript Being Good About It as a semi-finalist in the general literature category.   Publishers Weekly and interested readers provided a total of 26 reviews.

2007 Finalist: Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest

Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts in Durango, Colorado, chose my short story "Happy Sometimes" as a finalist in their annual fiction contest.

2007 December: Letter in Harper’s Magazine

A defense of Jonathan Kozol’s article "The Big Enchilada" and his analysis of for–profit education management organizations (i.e. shareholders making millions from our tax dollars via the privatization of our public school system).

2007 Short List for Finalists: The William Faulkner–William Wisdom Novel Competition

My novel manuscript Being Good About It was placed on the short list for finalists in this contest sponsored by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society in New Orleans.  Judging is solely on the basis of writing talent, use of the language, and universality of appeal in content.  The precise standard is excellence in the use of the English language and readiness for publication.

2006 November/December: Letter in Poets & Writers Magazine

A response to the featured profile of critic Daniel Mendelsohn and his discussion of narrative nonfiction versus the novel.

2005 Fiction Finalist: The Loft Mentor Series

I was selected as a fiction finalist for this contest based on an excerpt from Being Good About It.  The Loft Mentor Series offers advanced criticism and professional development to twelve writers: four each in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.  The emerging writers are selected through anonymous competition to work intensively with six nationally acclaimed authors.

2004: Literary Magazine Review   (vol 22)
Review of Square Lake by D.E. Steward

"Square Lake, only in its fourth issue, is already a significant magazine and on its way up . . . [I]n #4, Aimee Loiselle’s ‘Nina’ goes places in the world of the disenfranchised that most of us never see . . ."

Prized Handwritten and Personalized Email Rejections (each one carefully preserved)

322 Review, Story Quarterly, Versal, Wag's Revue, Work, Breakwater Review, Zoetrope, Hayden's Ferry Review, Feminist Studies, Lilies and Cannonballs, The Open Face Sandwich, The Broken Plate, Peregrine, The Charter Oak Review, Peeks and Valleys, The Redwood Coast Review, and Kalliope.