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.  Add your review here (registration required).

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.

December 2007: 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.

November/December 2006: 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

In the summer of 2005, 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 . . ."