My eternal thanks go to publications that nominated my work for the Pushcart Prize:

“Beneath the Starfish Sky” nominated by The Summerset Review

“Sweet Dreams” nominated by Carve Magazine

Short Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry

• First prize winner in fiction in the Talking Stick 16 annual writing competition with “Because,” Fall 2007
• “Beneath the Starfish Sky” nominated for the 2006 Million Writers Award by The Summerset Review
• 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”

Screenplays

• 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
• 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 place winner of the 2005 Southwest Writers national screenplay competition with the feature-length script “Lac Mirage.”