2023 Third Prize, Letter Review, “The Coroner’s Version”
2022 ChipLit Short Story Contest, UK, “Kenny Winking,” first prize, Chipping Norton Literary Festival
https://www.chiplitfest.com/kenny-winking-2022-winner
2022 Cinematic Novel Contest from Screencraft, grand prize, for Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown (no publication) https://screencraft.org/blog/2022-screencraft-cinematic-book-competition-winners/
2021 Notable Novel, First Chapter, Gutsy Great Novel Award, Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown
2021, “The Closer You Were: The Less You Knew,”https://screencraft.org/2021/01/06/2020-2021-screencraft-cinematic-short-story-competition-quarterfinalists/
2021 Finalist, Novel Slices, Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestownhttps://www.novelslices.com/winners-finalists.html
2020 Winner, Gutsy Great Novel First Page Award, Standing Beside Love
2020 Finalist Paradise Undone: Stories of Jonestown, Orison Books
2020 Finalist Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown Black Lawrence Press
2020 Long list, “Negroes and Jews Are Hereby Declared Aliens”: A Love Story https://www.grindstoneliterary.com/post/2020-novel-prize-winners prize
2019, semi-finalist, “Negroes and Jews Are Hereby Declared Aliens”: A Love Story, Hidden River Press
2019 Editor’s Reprint Award from Sequestrum for “The Closer You Were, the Less You Knew”
2019 Finalist, Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown, Black Lawrence Press
2018, Winner, “Icarus,” short story, New Millenium
2018, The London Independent Story Project, second prize, for “The Locked Box in my Closet”
2018 Finalist, Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown, Hidden River Press
2016 Finalist, North Street Book Prize, And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family
2016
FICTION CATEGORY WINNER!
The International Rubery Book Award for
York Ferry: A Novel
2016 First Prize, Knut House: Music Prize Winner for “Sex and the Piano”
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2015 “And Darkness Was Under His Feet” Honorable Mention, General Fiction, San Francisco Book Festival
2015 Finalist, Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Award for “Laugh America Star” a sestina.
2013 “Kenny, Winking,” Honorable Mention, GlimmerTrain Fiction Open
2013 “Homeless Camping Jump,” Honorable Mention, GlimmerTrain Fiction Open
Winner of the 2012 Dana Award in the essay for “All Thy Waves”
“Ten Days Before the End,” Honorable Mention, “Family Matters Contest,” GlimmerTrain Stories
2012 First prize for Non-Fiction for “Deeps” with the Northern Colorado Writers
Flash Fiction first prize for “Nitza Kosher Pizza” with A Room of One’s Own Foundation
2009 Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Short Story-Fiction, “And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family”
2008 First Prize, Short Grain Magazine, Dramatic Monologue, “Mamelah’s Monologue”
2007 First Prize, Literal Latte Short-Short Fiction Contest; Litchfield Review Award for Short Fiction for “And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family” [collection]
2006 Second Prize, Abroad Writer’s Conference, Short Story Prize for“Knowing What We Know,” [section of “Jonestown”]
Selected “Colorado Voice” for The Denver Post, temporary columnist