2010 Short Story Finalist: Press 53 Open Awards Press 53 selected “The Tangle of Stems and Light” as a finalist in its annual contest. Press 53 is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and supports literary writing of all types. In addition to showcasing new writers…
2010 Finalist: The Bellwether Prize Barbara Kingsolver sponsors this prize, and the National Writers United Service Organization managed it. (PEN American Center currently coordinates the contest.) My novel manuscript, Being Good About It, reached the final eight out of hundreds submitted. The prize seeks to support…
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 to the top 5% from 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 The story appears in the anthology American Fiction: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Volume…
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 reviews as part of the process.
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.