October 2025. Nominated for Best of the Net for the poem, “Sonnet for the Dreamers Craving Sleep”. https://www.instagram.com/p/DPKpNZMjziN/

December 2024. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize for the story “The Man on the Front Porch Has a Question.” https://sites.google.com/view/sundial-magazine/home?authuser=0

November 2024. Nominated for the Firecracker Award for the short story collection, All Lovers Burn at the End of the World. https://elj-editions.com/all-lovers-burn-at-the-end-of-the-world/

January 2024. Nominated for Best Small Fictions for the story. “Sheltering in Place”. https://twitter.com/ConstanceMall13/status/1743726096774742070

November 2023. Nominated for Best MicroFiction for the story. “House Rules for After the Polar Shift”. https://www.stanchionzine.com/post/stanchion-s-2024-best-microfiction-nominations

June 2023. Bath Flash Fiction Long List for “Mandy Opens Up a Late Appointment”. https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2023/06/june-2023-long-list/#more-32912

June 2023. Nomination for Ellipsis Zine Best of 2022. https://www.ellipsiszine.com/best-of-2022/

February 18, 2023. Accepted into Best MicroFiction, 2023 for the story, “What Bones Carry.” https://www.bestmicrofiction.com/index.html

December 1, 2002. Nominated for Best MicroFiction for the story, “What Bones Carry.” (Whale Road Review, Fall 2002 issue). http://www.whaleroadreview.com/about/nominations/

December 1, 2022. Nominated for Best MicroFiction for the story, “No Matter How Much Time Has Passed, Some Houses Don’t Die.” (Janus Literary Issue 8). https://twitter.com/JanusLiterary/status/1598422892722675712

June 28, 2022. TL;DR 1000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition. Seventh Place for, “Afterbirth”. Publication forthcoming. https://tldrpress.org/2022/06/09/announcing-the-tldr-press-1000-word-herd-flash-fiction-2022-competition-winners/?fbclid=IwAR2zVsPbSIJkndEHuf4lpEtQQQsaqs0wBxeMeC8N_qfzGhP0Y56i1k5JVKU

November 21, 2021. Nominated for Best MicroFiction for the story, “The Larvae of Tree-Dwelling Species Stay Where They Hatch” (SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2021) https://twitter.com/SmokeLong/status/1462548564853227520

October 29, 2021. Honorable Mention in Molotov Cocktail’s Flash Monster Contest for the story, “The Sternum Ties it All Together”. https://themolotovcocktail.com/2021/10/29/flash-monster-2021-results/

September 16, 2021 “St. Winston’s Refuge for Extinct Animals” chosen as a Special Selection in the Future Folklore Contest with STCW Publishing. The anthology will be released in September 2021. https://stcwpublishing.com/shop/p/climate-liberated-pdf

May 24, 2021 Smokelong Quarterly Award for Microfiction. Longlisted for the story “House Rules for After the Polar Shift”. http://www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-grand-micro-contest-long-list/

January 12, 2021 Nomination for Best Small Fictions for the story “Crop Rotation” (Meow Meow Pow Pow March, 2020). https://twitter.com/meowmeowpowpow/status/1349115144719245312/photo/1

June 1, 2020 Smokelong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. Longlisted for the story, “The Fertility of Ash”. http://www.smokelong.com/the-smokelong-quarterly-award-for-flash-fiction-long-list/

May 30, 2020 TL;DR 1000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition. Top 20 placement for the story, “After Midnight at the Dreamer’s Charity Ball”. http://tldrpress.org/index.php/2020/05/19/1kwhc-winners/

November 29, 2019 YeahWrite SuperChallenge #14. Final Round. Honorable Mention for the short story “Just Like She Was”. https://yeahwrite.me/super-challenge-14-results-round-3/

October 21, 2019 Literary Taxidermy Contest. Honorable Mention for the short story “Under the Grey”. https://literarytaxidermy.com/

October 19, 2019 Writer’s Workout Contest. Overall Third Place Winner. https://millersminusculemystories.com/2019/10/19/3rd-place-overall-writers-workout-games/

October 19, 2019 Writer’s Workout Contest. Event 5 (Bizarre Bazaar). First place for the short story “Ghosts of Tooth and Claw”.

October 11, 2019 Writer’s Workout Contest. Event 4 (Dialog Only). First place for the short story “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”

September 22, 2019 Shortlisted for the poem “Sonnet for the Dreamers Craving Sleep” in Molotov Cocktails Shadow Award Contest. Shadow Award 2019 results!

May 15, 2019 Shortlisted for Molotov Cocktail’s Urban Flash contest for the short story “Crow-Boy”. Flash Legend results!