Awards

Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye..

Any awards I have received are included in this section.

“Family Conference” was included in the top 25 stories in Glimmer Train Short Stories for New Writer’s Competition-August, 2010

Thank you so much for participating in our August 2010 Short Story Award for New Writers—we really enjoyed your story! Although it did not win this time, I am happy to inform you that it did make the Top-25* list—congratulations. (That’s the top 2 – 3% of over a thousand submissions!) Be sure to mention this achievement as you send the piece back out into the world. Here’s a link to a pdf of the list

“Couple” was included in the 15 stories shortlisted in the international magazine “Short Fiction” out of the UK.

SFCC Writer’s Competition cash award went to “Family Conference” in 2009.

“The F Word” was awarded an Honorable Mention, May, 2011 for the New Short Story Writer’s Contest.

http://bit.ly/11MaySSAFMhonorablementions

Garbage Picker of Memory won the Editor’s Choice Award at Inkspill Magazine out of the UK, Oct. 2011

http://www.inkspillmagazine.com/freedownload/

My prose poem “Irreversible Rupture” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Nov. 2011, published in Short, Fast & Deadly Magazine (Sept. 2011)

http://www.shortfastanddeadly.com/2011/10/irreversible-rupture.html

My story “Fissure” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Thunderclap Press, Nov. 2011 (Issue 7 in Thunderclap Press in print)

http://thunderclappress.com/2011/11/28/pushcart-prize-nominations-set/

My story “Dads Strung Out Women’s Blues” was nominated for a Pushcart prize by A-Minor Magazine (published March, 2011)

http://aminormagazine.com/2011/03/28/dad%E2%80%99s-strung-out-women-blues/

My story “Garbage Picker of Memory” was nominated for a Pushcart prize by Valparaiso Fiction Review (published Dec. 2011)

http://scholar.valpo.edu/vfr/vol1/iss1/4

My story “Pretend That Your Children Are Simpler Versions of You,” was nominated for a Micro Award by Stone Highway Review, October, 2012

Received a Pushcart nomination  for my poem “Lots of Swamp Out Here,” included in my chapbook, Reverberations, published by Deadly Chaps Press, Joseph Quintela, November 2012

http://www.literaryorphans.org/?wpb_portfolio=pushcart-prize-nominations-2012

My story Snoopy Time was nominated for a Pushcart prize, published in Literary Orphans, Mike Joyce, December 2012

http://mad.ly/3abcb3

Won the ‘Twin Antlers Collaborative Poetry contest” through Artistically Declined Press. “Bare Bulbs Swinging” by Meg Tuite, Michelle Reale and Heather Fowler to be published in 2014!