Awards & Distinctions
- First prize winner in fiction in the Talking Stick 16 annual writing competition with "Because," Fall 2007
- Finalist in the 2006 Gimme Credit Screenplay Competition with the short screenplay "A Virgo Night." August 2006
- Semifinalist in the 2006 Gimme Credit Screenplay Competition with the short screenplay "True Magic." August 2006
- "Beneath the Starfish Sky" was nominated for the 2006 Million Writers Award by The Summerset Review.
- Alternate in The Duke City Shootout 2006 with the short screenplay "A Virgo Night," June 2006
- Runner-up in the 2006 Upstart Short Script Competition with the short screenplay "A Virgo Night," June 2006
- Finalist in the 2006 New Mexico Governor's Cup Short Script Competition with the short screenplay "A Virgo Night," May 2006
- First prize winner in Byline Magazine's Short-Short Story Competition with "The Buddha in the Park," March 2006
- Second place winner in Byline Magazine's Short-Short Story Competition with "Newton's Laws," March 2006
- Finalist in the First Annual Vox Prose Poem Contest with "In Paradise with Master Mun," December 2005
- Honorable mention for "Diving Lessons" in Byline Magazine's Summer poem contest, September 2005
- Third place winner in Byline Magazine's Short Short Story Competition for "Feral Moon," August 2005
- Second place winner in the Talking Stick 2005 Fiction Competition with "For Luck"
- Finalist in the 2004 So To Speak Fiction Competition with "Solar Flares"
- Best of Submissions winner at 31 Eyes for "Powerful Fiction," August 2004
- Third Place winner in Dark Moon Lilith's first annual fiction competition with "A Perfect Peach," 2003
- Finalist in the Phoebe 2002 Winter Fiction Competition with "Rock People"
- Finalist in the So To Speak 2002 Annual Fiction Competition with "Ordinary Lives"
- Semifinalist in the 2002 Crazyhorse Fiction Competition with "Rock People"
- First Place winner in Byline Magazine's 2002 Flash Fiction Competition with "Final Dissolution"
- Third place winner in the 2002 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition with "Rock People"
- First place in Byline Magazine's Flash Fiction Competition with "Final Dissolution," August 2002
- Special Honorable Mention in Byline Magazine's Flash Fiction Competition for "Not a Trace," January 2002
- Third Prize winner in the Rockford Writer's Guild 2002 Short Story Contest for "A Perfect Peach"
- Second Place winner in the Novel Advice First Line Contest for "Ordinary Lives"
- Third Place winner in Great Blue Beacon's 2002 Short-Short story competition with "A Perfect Peach"
- Editor's Choice Award In Prose at The Rockford Review for "Far Away," Autumn 2001
- First place winner of the 2001 Pirates & Privateers Adult Fiction Competition with "The Captain's Last Caper"
- Semi-finalist at the Fiddlehead 2001 Fiction Competition with "Rock People"
- Honorable Mention in the 2001 FLASH!POINT Fiction Competition for "Check Please"
- Special Honorable Mention in Byline Magazine's 2001 Flash Fiction Competition for "Not a Trace"
- Honorable Mention in Byline Magazine's 2001 Short-Short Story Competition for "Check Please"
- Second place winner in The Pacific Coast Journal's 2000 French Bread Awards Competition with "Sweet Dreams"
- Winner, 2000 Recursos de Santa Fe Discover Competition with "Fallingwater" and "The Architectural Genius"
- Second place winner in Carve Magazine's November 2000 Writing Competition with "Sweet Dreams"
- First Place Winner in the E2K 2000 Flash Fiction Contest with "Fallingwater"
I will be forever grateful for my two Pushcart Prize nominations: "Sweet Dreams" nominated by Carve Magazine and "Beneath the Starfish Sky" nominated by The Summerset Review.
"Lac Mirage," my first screenplay, won the 2005 national screenwriting competition sponsored by Southwest Writers. Lac Mirage is a mystery set in the northern-gothic world of Minnesota's Iron Range.
"Lac Mirage," my first screenplay, won the 2005 national screenwriting competition sponsored by Southwest Writers. Lac Mirage is a mystery set in the northern-gothic world of Minnesota's Iron Range.
