• ​“Worst-Case Scenario”: current Finalist in Obra/Artifact’s Prose Contest
  
• The Women of Dauphine: Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: LGBTQ category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest; an earlier version of the manuscript was a Finalist in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel category
  
• ​Thanks for Nothing: Nominee in the Poems/Collection category of the 2019 Goldie Awards sponsored by the Golden Crown Literary Society
  
• "Jagged Patches": 3rd place Winner of the Pat Carr Prize, short fiction, Tidal Journal, 2019 
  
• “Cut”: Winner of 2018 Flexible Persona Editors’ Prize, nominee for a 2018 Pushcart Prize
  
• “Summer School”: 2nd place Winner of The Writer’s 2018 Flash Contest, longlisted for Retreat West’s Reunions Flash Contest
  
• “The Change”: Winner of Two Sisters Writing & Publishing’s Contest for February 2018
  
• “space between”: Honorable Mention for the 2017 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award
  
• “Scarring”: winner of 2017 So to Speak Nonfiction Award, 2nd place winner in 2017 Pen2Paper Writing Competition​​​
  
• “Empty Eyes”: Finalist in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Short Story category, Finalist in the New Millennium Writings/Sunshots’ 44th Writing Award Contest
  
• Further: A Novella: Shortlisted in the 2016 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novella category